I have the Flavor 4 with Furutech Gold plug and silver IEC. Wonderful cable in my system. I purchased an Acrolink with the 004 Oyaide's. I couldn't decern a big difference in these 2 cables when connected to my Cary SLP-05 pre. I've heard that this Cary, having a seperate power supply chassis, is not so sentive to power cords. Upstream wall to conditioner hangs a flavor 4/Furutech cable anyway. I have a dedicated circuit with a Furutech outlet so I pay attention to AC and it seems to benefit imaging/staging immensly.
My desire now is to duplicate the Acrolink/Oyaide combo and attach to my Nuforce 9SEV2 mono's. I tried as well the Flavor 4/Furutech vs Acrolink/Oyaide 004 on my Transporter and again, was difficult for me to decern the difference's. In all honesty, I need to go back and retest after a recent substantial change in my system. I entered sonic bliss the other day and can't help my uncontrollable laughter on some reference cuts I've listened to for years. It's that good.
Having power conditioners may add too many variables in my setup to help directly with this question - just food for thought.
The Oyaide 004's have a nice reputation which I want to hear for myself. They are painful to buy at $120ea. When I procure the second Acrolink/Oyaide combo I'll report back. My Nuforces currently use the Flavor 4 Fututech combo. I would think it would be an interesting test considering the clean, transformerless nature of the Nuforces as to the difference in sounds with these 2 DIY cable types (although one could purchase the Acrolink/Oyaide combo online).
