Hi Jeb, I E-mailed tara Labs about this to much treble infomation you were talking about, and in turn to my supprise, Devon Scott-Vice president of Tara Labs E-mailed Mr Mathew Bond Him self, As It turns out, The Tara Labs Cobalt Power cord you listened to was not broken in!, I was shocked when Mathew's response quote-, The cobalt power cord takes hundreds of hours to break in, The complexity of the construction requires this amount of break-in,The result is smooth and extended resolution with a sound of realism. End of quote,,, So In my opinion, I will do 700 hours instead of 400 before I know and give my final impressions of this power cord, why so long of a break-in, well, I have the cobalt connected to a cd-player that only draws 25 to 35 watts max from the wall, LOL!, I cannot put the cobalt on my amp, The Krell 700cx is hard wired with a very good big girth stock power cord, and then I do not have an active pre-amp, I use source direct to amp, Very realistic sounding, there you have it, I can only use the cobalt where it is on my digital player, The cobalt with oyaide is retail $5,450.00 for 6ft, oh, and the new Tara labs Grandmaster power cord is around $12,000.00 for 6ft give or take on the price, you would have to call Tara labs to get exact pricing, I only know the rough price, also I was told by Tara Labs that if you do not use the cobalt for two weeks to a month, you will need to re-burn-in the power cord, ouch!, you got a good deal on the Kraken power cords, Misternice, The Kraken power cord retails far more than what Jeb paid for them,I just got my digital player that is breaking in as well, brand new, that is the reason I am just now breaking in the cobalt power cord, Jeb, I got a good deal myself, I got my cobalt that was only a year old, that is short-3ft for an astounding deal here on audiogon a year ago this june for a $1,000.00 out the door, talking about a deal of a life time, Hurray! Thankyou Jebsmith73, you are welcome to this thread any time!
