Elrod Statement Gold Owners Please

Thanks for the input guys.

In my system, the Elrod Statement Gold PCs are also tantamount to a full component upgrade. Putting in the first brought everything Shane is talking about and more in terms of realism, energy and imaging. The overall effect would take alot more than I have time to write to describe fully but suffice it to say the difference is an eye opener. Every instrument, every voice, etc....is just that much more real...With other Elrod PCs on select equipment, I've been able to experience even more of this across my entire system....

My experience has been very similar to that of Puremusic, Zephyr, and Bullot. I had used Elrod cords for years, and was very shocked at how much better the Statement Gold was. It is shocking how expensive they are too. My sense of that changed dramatically once I heard what the cord could do, though.

I'll add another very positive testamonial to the above. I have tried a lot of power cords, too, and had my system outfitted entirely with Elrod Statements in the end. I tried my first Gold a year and a half ago, and it was a profound system improvement, feeding my power conditioner.

I have since added a second Gold feeding the preamp, and it raised the system performance considerably again, although not as much as the first one did on the power conditioner.

Now I am actually contemplating trying a Diamond on the conditioner, and shifting the freed up Gold to the amp or the CD player, whichever one proves to bring the greatest improvement. The costs are obscene, but the performance in the Gold is definitely there, and if the Diamond also delivers commensurately, that would be fantastic. (A couple folks with broad experience and reliable ears have asserted so to me.)

So, I clearly think they are worth it - - just like a component upgrade. (Come to think of it, it was kind of like when I stepped up to the VAC Renaissance Sig. preamp - - a big improvement in all the ways detailed in other comments above.)

I do suspect that the better one's connected components are, the more worthwhile and evident the value of the Golds will be.

Jfz and Jbrrp1: Thanks for the feedback. I know of one audiophile who recently tried a new Gold Statement X2 and two audiophiles who have the Diamonds. In both cases they rave about 'the final bits' of performance improvements over the most recent Gold Statement PCs. For me, I cannot go to the X2 and even more so, the Diamonds, but it's nice to dream! The great thing about the latest Gold Statement PCs is that I don't have the feeling I am missing anything as what I hear out of my system is well beyond any expectation I ever had.

The comment about Elrod cables being equivalent to a component upgrade is right on the money. After years of trying many things, my best advice is to get to the point where you know your system extremely well and are very happy with it having the best components you can muster. Once you know what you have well, adding Elrod's cables is an amazing experience as (for me) it showed me just what my speakers and components were capable of after I was already extremely happy with them.

Two in particular stand out for me namely, my speaker's performance with Elrod Sig. Gold speaker cables, and that of my pre-amp. As incredible as the PC upgrades on my DAC and amp have been, nothing prepared me for the treat of hearing a pre-amp I love (Esoteric C-03,) imbued with tube pre-amp like qualities thanks to the Gold Statement PC.

The same comments hold for the Gold Statement XLR interconnects; after years of bouncing around various mid to very high-end interconnects, I can tell you that to my ears there is something very special happening with Elrod interconnects...

Elrod cables are well worth the wait...once you have them, you'll not be looking for anything else! All of this is of course, an audio-nut's opinion!