Front Row Seat Power Cord?
I’m looking for a quality power cord that tends to create a perspective that is more “front row” than “mid-hall”, without being thin or overly bright. I’ve been looking at reviews, and the two that seem to pop up in this regard are the DH Labs Red Wave, and the Purist Audio Jade. Any other ideas?
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not based on my experience with AQ Thunder, Tornado and Hurricane that were bottom heavy and dark sounding. |
Physics aside, AC cabling, Trans formers AC to DC, multiple filters for multiple reasons, through fuses, And people think there is tonal quality and control in a short section of primary wire from a receptacle box. Oh the power of dreaming laced with Placebo. They made a movie like that, Build it and they will come… better yet One flew over the cuckoo’s nest. |
If you got a "front row power cord" (I’m not sure what that is), but your electronics and speaker are "mid-hall" perspective, you’re not suddenly going to feel like you’re in the front row). It will be mildly closer. And perhaps not noticeable. Myself, I have top of the line Shunyata and Nordost. I’m saying that for perspective. I’ve had top of the line power cords since 1995, and none I’ve heard change the perspective as dramatically as you seem to want. That is no the purpose of power cords. Their job is only to provide clean AC. Might I suggest you approach this some other way. Also, when you ask for advice, it helps if you list your system, so that someone who owns a piece of equipment you do might chime in with how they solved the issue. It might not be the power cord you need to change to get a more "intimate" perspective on the music; it could be something else. |
@1971gto455ho You, like most people, are assuming the power cord might affect the quality of the mains supply, if it affects anything at all, which I guess you doubt. Much more likely is that it modulates in some way RFI generated by your equipment that it powers. Elsewhere I have given a reproducible example of a power cord feeding a subwoofer with an in-built class D amplifier, which generates lots of switching noise. The cable was acting as an antenna and destroying TV signals. A couple of ferrite rings round the power cord fixed that issue. |
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