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What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound?

I have bought six or seven different power cords, none over $500 and have noticed little or no change in the sound of my system. All the cables are 12 gauge or bigger.  Without talking about cables made with unobtainium, where did you start hear a difference.
 

Thanks.

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ghdprentice
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@strawj 

 

What is your system? The effect of power cords is depend on your system. Very helpful to know where you are coming from. You can see my systems under my ID.

avalongfap
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The first power cable that noticed a difference in the sound was a Monsrter PowerLine 300. It made everything sound more open, yet detailed and was a real wow from the standard cable.  The same effect was noticed on inexpensive hybrid through All tube McIntosh systems.  Since that time I have used Nordost Blue Heaven and LessLoss. All were different and more revealing.  I felt dollar for dollar the LessLoss was a better performer for anything under $2,500.

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magnuman
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pindac,

I just wanted to give you a little update I talked to the person that is distributing acoustic revive and I also read up on triple C, it is no better or worse than OCC single crystal copper all they've done is come at it from a different production angle to produce longer crystals but they do not say anywhere that their crystals are 125 m long like OCC single crystal is so from what I've been reading and researching triple C is not better than OCC single crystal and now Neotech has rectangular OCC single crystal which is even better than the round and Joe who distributes acoustic revive said to me he can see how the rectangular would be even better than the round OCC or the triple C.

som
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Triode Wire Labs was my first power cord to offer an improvement in sound quality

hsounds
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Nordost Blue Heaven on my Sony surround receiver. I was able to try it for free. I came back a week later and gave the store the money. It transformed my system which I used for music and video. I still own those cables. Blue Heaven is 16 gauge so I would recommend the Red Dawn for it now. I use a Puritan Classic Plus on my Marantz surround processor and a Straightwire Pro Thunder on my NAD M 25- 7 channel amp. I have a separate 2 ch setup that has nice power cables. Probably the first cable you should upgrade even before you start auditioning speaker cables. 

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