Power cord for MHDT Havana


My system
Paradigm S4(fronts)
Rel Strata III sub
B&K 7270 200X7 amp
B&K ref30 preamp
Blue jeans cables ( interconnects)
Speaker cables (Blue jeans)
Transport Technics SL MC7(12 year old)
Recently purchased MHDT HAVANA.

No After market power cords purchased or tested yet.

It has been probably 150 hours of MHDT havana, while doing A & B switching, I dont see significant difference in the sound quality between with or without the DAC. I saw the bigger difference when I removed the grills from the speakers.

Now My question is what could get me best improvement from here on.

Let me know your opinions.

Thanks
Sandhya
sandhya

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Mingles,
Can you give more details about your upgrades. Also let me know the configuration of your system.

I am pretty sure Paradigms are pretty revealing. Could that be the jitter problem. Is it possible that Jitter introduced by the external dac is compensating the improvements provided by the external dac.

Thanks
Pandu
I tried to connect it to Computer using a USB cable. I didnt like it at all. It was lot worse than now.

I am out of budget right now. For the DAC I spent close to $1000, Dont see much improvement.

May be I need to learn about listening tests. How they need to be done. Can you suggest any reading material related to it.

I dont have any room treatment done. My house is built with Brick and cement and not wood. It is a rigid structure.

ROom treatment is difficult subject, hard to understand and predict.

My room is 17 X 13 X 10 fts.

One other thing I am contemplating is change the interconnects or Power cords. Havenot decided on any of them. These are also pretty expensive.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks
Pandu
Lewinski,

I guess you put it right. I need to work on the room treatment. It is altogether a different subject. I will start going thru material and start working on each of the components.

For example My floor is made of smooth marble. I have covered 30% of it with thick carpet. Rest we have some openspaces and some furniture. I will first try to carpet the whole room and see the improvement.

Thanks
Sandhya