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Power Cables - Which Is Best For My Setup?

I have a setup that consists of a Audio Research GSi75 Receiver, Wilson Watt/Puppy 7 speakers, Transparent Audio Premium Series Ultra speaker cables, Synergistic Research Galileo (USB) and Accelerator RCA ICs, ClearAudio Ovation TT, Roon Nucleus and the power cable is between 3x at the moment, and that is where I need your opinions since one cannot be currently sampled in my system:

1. Cardas Beyond Clear 2. Synergistic Research SE T3 3. Shunyata Alpha HC

Which do you think is best for my system and why? Thank you.
Lastly, the Shunyata is a 20 amp version so I am currently not able to hear/test this one and I need to find a 15 amp version to swap to in case anybody has or knows of one please let me know. So for now I can only compare the SR and the Cardas, this is why your opinion is important until I can get it swapped out and test out all 3x side by side. Thank you in advance for your time and opinions on this matter.
superdan138
dill
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Here we go ....
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lostbears
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I am not a big fan of mixing and matching cables. I prefer to have all one brand. That said, Cardas is not a great match with ARC. Shunyata and Synergistic are both good matches. I have all ARC Ref gear and use Shunyata Zitron Alpha HC power cords. They are excellent. The Synergistic always seemed a bit gimmicky to me. I have a couple pairs of their interconnects. I have not compared their power cords. But I have found both Shunyata and Synergistic interconnects to have a similar type of sound. Really both are quite good.

I am surprised that the GSi75 does not have a 20 amp socket. My Ref 110, Ref 5se and Ref Phono 2se all have 20 amp sockets.

BTW  Be careful buying used cables, there are a lot of counterfeit cables around. Shunyata will verify that a cable is real and not a fake for you. Just call them with the serial number. World class customer service.

superdan138 OP
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lostbears: Thank you for the wonderful response. I need to get a 15A Shunyata swap happening so I can use that in my system. Very excited to try it out.
I upgraded from the VSi75 and both that and the GSi75 had 15A power inputs. Very weird as to why they chose that for these models.
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lostbears
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 If you do go with Shunyata, make sure to get the HC version. There is a big difference between the regular and HC versions.

 


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