Need advice for power cord on PS Audio UPC 200

DCCA website?

Just for the record in terms of my particular circumstances, I think passing this along makes for interesting reading... and it's way true!

I recently bought a Python VX from the Cable Co. Placed it onto the Sony xa 777 es I use for serious listenning sessions. Real nice I should say. .. and the best fit given my somewhat limited experience (s). Receiving the PS audio UPC 200 the other day, after some interminable delays IMO... (SIX WEEKS OR BETTER ACTUALLY & ALSO FROM THE CABLE Co.), I figured to move things about to see how items act with it. I've got four dedicated ckts. One runs the PC & it's stuff. the other three are for the amp, preamp adn CD/Processor, in that order.

I originally run the VooDoo Black Dragon on the UPC 200. nICE FIT. Smooth, and even across the entire bandwidth. A slight drop overall in harmonics as the Black D is more capacitant a cord, though not pronouncededly so. Good fit there. Moving the Python onto the UPC in place of the Black D, changed things a bit more so towards the dimension of additional sheen. A somewhat darker background, though not drammatically. Richer, and more detailed. Slightly more rounded yet still as open as the Black with no loss in presentation. to be brief, darker, and more detailed... yet, again, incrementally, and then just slightly, and shineeyer.. for lack of a better word... but not 'wet'.

ok. LOVELY. SO WHAT? Well the unexpected is always intriguing, though not always positive. In this instance it was positive. With the Python VX at the helm of the UPC 200 and energized for some period of hours, an IMO, AMAZING THING BEGAN... the quieting, enrichening that was taking place with the UPC 200 and connected BAT VK 500, was also taking place with the adjacent ckt powering the PC and it's associated gear (all the PC stuff being connected via a minor level power strip, separtely)!

Letting the audio gear warm up, and having left the PC on inadvertently, and in standby most of the day, I was compiling a Cd, annd in the doing, previewing tracks along the way.

then I slowly became aware of the change. a very big diff! Though it took me a while to recognize it. I knew something was different. Different for the better. though I had done nothing to the PC lately. NADA! ZIP! tHEN IT CAME TO ME. It might be the VX/UPC COMBO ON THE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT CKT. Curious and wanting to make sure... I swapped out the VX with another cord I had abouts... briefly, and yep. back to normal. Put the VX/upc COMBO IN PLACE ONCE MORE... BINGO.

as SEPARATE AS DEDICATED CKTS ARE, ALL the power supplied from a breaker box ultimately is connected. The neutral wires are tied together. The grounds are as well. I think the interaction came as the result of being in very close (directly beneath) proximity to the ckt providing power to the PC... AND both circuits being energized for some hours...played a part.

Perhaps this is not as noteworthy an event as I seem to think it to be... though ancilliary positive attributes are always welcome in my book, given the costs of some of this equipment and how astronomical they can become... I don't think "just plugging the VX into a dedicated circuit is enough to affect another circuit... it took time, and the energizing of BOTH circuits to realize the results... oh, and a passive conditioner as well, (which was being run in the 'power' mode, not 'isolation' mode), too.

Curious indeed. Though certainly a most positive and welcome experience. Call it what you may, tweak or whatever, it is real and should be made mention of I would think.... and points out dedicated ckts are not 'islands'. they can and are affected, given certain circumstances. .

Oh, by the way, the VX although having it's distinct impications or atennuations to the sound I don't see it remaining in place as the power cord to supply the UPC 200 & bat vk500 combo. Further upsteam a component would be better a fit. ...though for a bright or edgy amp...? perhaps.

Fplanner,

Here is DCCA's website, although it's a work in progress:

DCCA Website.

Their Extreme Reference works very well with the McCormack DNA-500, which is what I think you own, and one I've owned for many months this year.

Don offers a trial period, so it's a no risk proposition.

1mark, sorry, I've got a late model BAT VK500 w/BAT pk. not McCormack. Though as much as folks seem to think the DCCA cord a good fit... I'll see what I can do to find out for myself. It'll be a while, though. Either the PK10 OR speaker wires is next on the list... and the Kimber I've heard and IS a good fit for me... Thanks.