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Some Cables Thoughts

Working on those cable suggestions you all have offered up to me in the past. I was wondering if any of you might know of a decent grade 110V power cord that has a 90-degree male connector on it? Something like this:

https://www.cablesdirect.com/store/p/2128.aspx

If not, a super flexible cable something similar the stock one that came with my Coda amp, that can turn downward asap and not to long of a connector itself, some are supe long. I need to get tight to the back wall.

As fair as speaker cables, I was thinking of a pair of these, 6 feet long with spade ends.

https://kimber.com/customize/12TC

Do I have your blessings?

PS: No one speaks much here about XLO cables. There are these on USAM - 6ft for $600 DIY terminations, I’d just use bare wire (if I could figure it out (lol)

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649981370-xlo-signature-3-54-bi-wire-shotgun-speaker-cables/

There is another set there as well with bananas for $800, but I prefer spade.

Thank you!

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soix
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On power conditioners, I’ve been intrigued by balanced power conditioners and was impressed with what I read about Core Power Technologies products prior to them being bought by Underwood Hifi. Their Equi=Core 1800 Mk3 sells for $1799 and comes with a $400 upgraded power cord. I don’t know how it compares to the Niagara, which I’ve also read great things about, but there are reviews of the 1800 out there that might be worth a read. Anyway, just thought this might give you another interesting option to consider FWIW…

https://www.underwoodhifi.com/products/equicore

Looking forward to your thoughts on the AZs BTW. 🤞🤞🤞

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navyachts OP
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@soix thanks for the lead on the CPT units, I will check out that link! 

Some also mentioned Shunayata, they have some reasonably price PCs as well. Talk about buying locally, they are just a couple of hours down the road from me, although I don't think they sell direct.

kennyc
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After seeing up to thick garden hose PCs, I was a bit shocked to see the flexible Puritan cable

Maybe consider the Audience ForteF3 which is similar in price to the Shunyata Venom.

 

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@kennyc ok, let me check it out, thanks 

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@audphile1 I am working on upgrading my cables and I wanted to ask you about your network connections. You speak highly of your Purist 7 CAT cable, which is pretty pricey, so I was wondering how you connect it to your music server.

Ideally it would be nice to go straight from the modem to the music server but then you’d have no other connections to hook up ethernet cables to.

Right now I’m going: modem>switch>router>music server. If you throw in the FMCs add another cable. But I was trying to mimic your set-up by eliminating the FMCs. That would be 3 ethernet cables at over $1,000. I could cut it to 2 cables though buy just going: modem>switch>music server which would cut me down to 2 Purist 7 cables.

I am only running a Netgear switch (modem & router too), would I then need to upgrade the switch to that of a higher quality to match the quality of the Purists cables?

Any advice on this would be much appreciated, thank you!

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