Glad to hear you’re loving the TAKUMI 匠 Maestro power cord. It is indeed a very special cable.
聖HIJIRI Users thread
Based on a discussion with another forum member, I've been reading up on this Comback Corporation brand. The reviews I've found have been pretty positive, but I've also learned over the years to take all reviews with a grain of salt. So the purpose of this thread is for users to share their input on 聖HIJIRI cables. When you share, if you'd discuss what model of HIJIRI you demoed and what brands/models they were compared to, that'd be very helpful.
A little background: a few years ago I was reading the Audio Envy threads and decided to give them a try as the seemed to compete with much higher-priced cable. So I decided to give AE a try. I found both the $179 P2 and the $279 M3 to easily best an Isotek power cord at $1k. So that got me thinking even more about value products. I was about to give Zavfino a try and then was given another recommendation to give HIJIRI a try. So this is how I got here. I'll be very interested to hear all user comments on HIJIRI and this should be a good repository for the brand.
Here is their website: www.combak.net
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Colin loaned me a Nagomi pc 2 weeks ago. I tried it first feeding the Puritan per his suggestion, but I did not really hear much change. More anticipatory excitement telling me I would hear something. But I don't think there was much there there. Then I tried it in a (crazy) daisy chain arrangement to my amp inside an Elrod string and it really made a nice improvement. See my system thread and you'll see my crazy experiment where I was bypassing a 27 foot Anticable pc with 3 power cables daisy chained together. I used IEC to male plug adapters to tie two Elrods and a Tara Labs into a long power cable to see what would happen. That combo was pretty good but when I added a third Elrod in place of the Tara, it was too much bass and fuzzy highs. I pulled the Nagomi off the Puritan, placed my NRG on the Puritan as before, and set the Nagomi in-between both Elrods and it was magic. It's crazy, but the Nagomi tightened up the bass, clarified the top end, and made it very musical. I still need greater than 5 meters to get from rack to amp even if I pull the amp in more, so I'm considering two 3 meter Nagomis instead of a custom length because I did not knowingly suffer any loss of signal with the adapters. I can now try the Nagomi on the dac or preamp if I can adequately substitute for it in the Elrod string from my back-up pile of pc's. Hard to explain, but the sound really changed with the Tara or Nagomi in that string of Elrod cables. Enough to give me some taste for what this cable is supposed to deliver anyways. More cable fun coming as I also have a Harmonix Studio Master and a Sablon Robusto to try. I suspect the Studio Master to have similar Nagomi traits. Thanks to Colin for the loan. He's gonna cost me some real money here soon as I also want to audition the Sternklang speaker cables. |
@bugredmachine, Is the "bugredmachine's Tennessee System 2023" system the one you are referring to? |
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