PC: KS Elation, Elrod or Stealth?

jfz said
''I also have used the Elrod Signature cords and many others over the years. NOTHING, however, prepared me for the diffence I heard when I inserted the Statement Gold into my system. In fact, I might even say it is the single biggest improvement I've ever made to my system.''

if a setup is ''so dependable'' to Powercord, if a powercord, no matter how expensive, perfect, ODIN or Elrod can make difference, I may say either system owner's ears are not 100 percent effectively or combination of equipments is not properly choosen.

Regarding my last post, I do not try to tell that powercords make no difference, yes, it makes difference in positive way, but there are always trade offs. If result is a jaw dropping, or night or day, hell or paradise, then, it means something wrong(not matched) particular electronics.
Almost all of us use some powercords, expensive, cheap, gold, copper, silver based but the purpose must be only slightly changing the taste but not overall presentation.

If result is a jaw dropping, or night or day, hell or paradise, then, it means something wrong(not matched) particular electronics.

Mert, Among other things, it could *also* mean that the specific technology designed into the power cord to reduce EM/RFI noise is working *very* effectively.

Besides your previous post's suspicion about the owner's ears, you are insisting that mismatch is the only explanation for large sonic differences that power cords can make. Perhaps there is a semantic issue here in what you mean by mismatch.....what you would include under that term. According to what you mean by mismatch, would you agree that it's also possible to have a "mismatch" between the contaminated AC and the electronic components? If you agree that such mismatch is possible, then would you agree that it's possible to significantly improve this mismatch by reducing that contaminating noise sufficiently?

Pure Music, there are many things that count when making a good power cable! RFI, EMF protection, vibration control, the material of the conductor etc! Even cable makers admit that if using too much or too little protection against those things changes the sound making it darker, brighter etc.! So in a say yes, they act as equalizers! For example there are people that believe that all power cables should be completely unshielded! ;)

I am not against power cables I just think that most of them are tuning tweaks!

Happy Listening

mike

Puremusic,
As much as we speak, we learn something from each other I guess. Normaly, I don't speak very detailed and choose rounded words if someone asks me about a specific component and cables. The reason is doing that is everybody has own brain and ear reference. Plus, I don' hesitate to tell you that I am not a hardcore Audiophile.
However, beginning from early childhood, I have passion towards electronics. Since both is sticked to each other, that's why I am here. Plus, I do own a proaudio system and like to play as DJ. This enabled me have experience a lot. (combining Hi-End and Proaudio, specialy filters and interconnects, powercords.)
I will cut the chase short: Powercords must be last thing you may deal as long as you setup a system.

''According to what you mean by mismatch, would you agree that it's also possible to have a "mismatch" between the contaminated AC and the electronic components? If you agree that such mismatch is possible, then would you agree that it's possible to significantly improve this mismatch by reducing that contaminating noise sufficiently?''

Well, as I said, before reducing EM/RFI, we need to match electronics and speaker, then interconnects, speaker cables. You can't know what is missing or more unless you plug directly to wall with stock cords.
In addition, the voltage must come before the contaminated AC.