Power cords or power conditioner
I’m at a cross roads and I’m looking for some advice from those have have gone down this road. I recently added a 2 channel integrated amplifier to improve my 2 channel performance. I had been using my Datasat LS-10 for music and while it sounded really nice, it was missing the depth and clarity that I know my speakers are capable of. My speakers are KEF Reference 3s, rest of my 2 channel set is is as follows:
Luxman L 509x
Luxman D-03x
Roon Nucleus Plus
Lumin U2 Mini
Transparent Audio Super speaker cables
Nordorst Red Dawn XLR, Blue Heaven USB
Wire World Platinum USB
All power cables are DYI using Oyaide Tsunami V2 cable
So what I feel I am missing is that 3D holographic sound stage. It was there with the Luxman 509 when I demo’d it, but I am unable to get that experience at my house. I feel that majority of equipment is up to the task but I am curious if I should ad a top shelf power condtioner like a Shunyata Triton or Torus AVR20 into the system or replace my Intergrated’s power cord with a Shunyata Alpha NC? I’m getting tapped out, so for now it can only be one or the other.
Or should I skip the above and focus on room treatments?
Whellndeal1099, if you are looking for a better soundstage I think you should try DSP instead of power treatments. Paradigm sells the Link Preamp for $199 and it comes with a microphone and their ARC room correction software or you can get a minidsp running dirac. If you want to try a power conditioner check out ADD-POWR.
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@wheelndeal1099 Could you please reveal your source for "All power cables are DYI using Oyaide Tsunami V2 cable." I have been unable to source it in the USA. Thanks! |
I enjoy music and have tried power cords and power conditioners. I had a furman power distributor- perhaps more of a surge protector than conditioner. Then I tried Shunyata Venom NR10 power cables on my DAC/ network player and I perceived an impact on the lower frequencies being clearer and the reduction of ‘noise’. The volume would be at the same level but the space between notes was clearer.
Replacing the furman with Shunyata venom resulted in a drop in the noise floor. Overall impact was detail in lower end - seemed like I added a subwoofer because of the immediacy of bass drums, detail clarity during peaks etc.
Is my mind playing tricks and giving me confirmation bias - maybe I like how it sounds and listen to more music so there’s that My advice is experiment and listen to as many systems as you can What’s the worse thing that can happen?
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I won't enter an opinion for the idea of power cables/conditioners. Instead, as probably has been stated, do all that you can physically with the listening environment first. I should take the advice that i give here. When reading such books as Jim Smiths 'Get better sound' there are many ideas that can be tried out for free, and if they work as prescribed you are ahead of the game before spending extra money on other attempts to improve your systems performance at large. Tweaks are fine, if you so desire, after the physics that can be dealt with are dealt with first. |
