Ever hear a power cable make a huge difference?

it's a small to mid sized basic Tesla coil, (not a Van de Graff generator). The tesla coil generates massive voltages that easily exceed the breakdown voltage of air. It would seem that the folks at SR are using the cable under test to connect the target ground point (the thing the spark discharges to) to ground via the unit under test (the cable). The high frequency ( >100kHz + harmonics) voltage pulses will no doubt cause an effect to the dielectrics of the cable, but will they last...?

It would seem they refer to this method of dielectric change as quantum tunneling...big words for a very simple phenomenon. Very nice video. Love the ceiing vent.
By the way if anyone is remotely interested in sending me their cables for the ultimate tunneling job I can hook them up to my jumbo bug zapper, or a pimped out neon sign transformer to about the same effect. Just bend over and wire the money first.

Brutusab, could you mention the preamp they used?

Hi Bar81 and all.

08-23-07: Bar81
Isn't the fact that a power cable is making a "huge difference" indicative of issues in the rest of the system it's being used in, particularly where it's changing the sound of such system (as opposed to lowering the noise floor, etc.)?

If I'm understanding you correctly, the issue isn't so much with componentry as to why after-market cords do what they do. It has much more to do with the AC service in your residence. There's a ton of stuff inside and outside the residence that affect that.

Depending on the design, there are a myriad of things power cords can do that can, for better or for worse, change the character of the AC powering your gear....even if it's only 4'-8'

This is huge considering when all is said and done, the music we listen to is basically the PSU in our gear being controlled and minipulated by all the other circuitry in the piece of gear.

So, it doesn't so much go to good or bad gear, but more about bad AC.

Hope that makes a bit of sense.

Kindly,
Robert
RSAD

I make a cup of coffee, grab my laptop, visit one of my favorite sites and, POW!, what the heck? Well it’s true; I have been working on a new line of power cords that are a radical departure from my existing designs. The original AC Master Coupler has been in production since early 1994 with all subsequent SR power cord designs having their evolutionary roots in the original AC Master Coupler design. All that’s about to change with the release of the new Tesla Series Power Cords.

I can’t really comment on the OP’s enthusiastic description of what he heard in my reference system except to say we have an open door policy here at Synergistic Research. If you are in the Southern California area and would like to visit the factory, give us a call and make an appointment. I’m an enthusiastic audiophile myself and love to share my reference system with fellow music lovers- especially when I am about to release a new product. It helps to get feedback from listeners not directly involved in the development program and if someone has something to share, as a result of hearing my system, that’s their business. I will say of all the cables in a system it is my opinion that power cords are the most system dependent. A power cord that works wonders on your DAC may not work so well on your amplifier, while a power cord that clicks with your amplifier may not work so well on your pre-amp, and so on. This is what I have been quantifying and will address with my new power cords.

As to Quantum Tunneling, I see nothing to hide here, nor do I understand why we should perform this procedure in secret. It works, it’s a corner stone technology in the Tesla Series based in the work of Nikola Tesla, has several procedural patents pending, and it’s fun as hell, especially the video. In fact, I feel certain many of my fellow gear junkies have as much fun with this as I do. As to the coil we are using this is where we deviate from Tesla's 100-year-old designs. His were vacuum tube spark gap circuits with a fixed signal determined by the size of the coil. Ours is a huge solid-state design that allows us to change both the frequency of the signal as well as it’s bpm (beats per minute). It is this distinction, specifically the exact frequency of the pulse-modulated signal, and it's duration that holds the secret to our process. Get it right and you transform a cable in a way that is unlike any conditioning effect you’ve ever experienced, get it wrong and you’ll ruin the subjective sound quality of a cable, and we have a mountain of zapped cables from our QT development program to prove it. As to dielectric breakdown, the current of the QT pulse is aprox what you get from static electricity, so there is no change to high pot test results measuring dielectric strength on cables before and after the Quantum Tunneling process.

So if you’re ever in the area stop by and I’ll give you the same before and after demonstration I gave the OP, and I won’t make you sign a non disclosure agreement, nor will I admonish you to promote my company. I’m just a fellow audiophile lucky enough to love what I do, and I love to share my work with others so your always welcome at Synergistic Research.

Yours in music,
Ted Denney III Lead Designer Synergistic Research Inc.

PS. The pan to the ceiling in the video is to show the florescent fixtures “lighting up” as a result of energy being put in the surrounding air from the Tesla Coil. If you hold a florescent bulb in your hand and it will light up within an 8ft radius of the spark, great fun!

Ted, any idea when these cables will be available?