@squared80 You do have a valid point on the room acoustics but not on power cables. Guessing you have a lo to mid-fi system and should head on back to ASR.
Power cord upgrade
I want to upgrade power cords for my streamer, Aurender A15 which currently has a Shunyata v14 digital.
And Puritan 156 which has the classic cord it comes with.
I believe in system synergy, so I am leaning towards Transparent, and/or Audioquest.
I have ARC ref5se with the Transparent Reference, and ref75se with the AQ Hurricane.
Guess my thought is the streamer and 156 PC are maybe a bottleneck. Won't know without trying, right? I am satisfied with the over all sound now, so looking for more of it. Make any sense??
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I originally had Nordost Red Dawn on my streamer then upgraded to the Tornado source cable. I just upgraded from that to a Snake River Audio cables. I bought 2 different ones. One is the Signature which is a hybrid of 24K gold and silver. The other is the Cottonmouth which is 24k gold. In my setup, the cottonmouth sounded better on the streamer and the hybrid on my phono. Couldn’t be happier with the results. Highly recommend giving them a look. (SRA runs some pretty good deals now and then). |
@vetsc5 I like the article you referenced and have three comments. 1. Just about everybody assumes that exotic power cables fix up the power coming from the wall. Why that last six feet has that effect is beyond me. Instead, I would suggest that power cables may reduce noise coming from your own components! 2. The article was written some time ago, when transformers were near ubiquitous. Now we have switch-mode or switching power supplies in many components. Switch mode works from the high voltage spike produced when you suddenly switch off current. Class D amplifiers use this principle. A high frequency chopped square-wave contains lots of very high frequency harmonics! 3. I have personal, objective, repeatable evidence of the dramatic effect changing a power cord can have on a digital source. I live in a marginal reception area for digital TV and have a small motorhome with a domestic AV stack. The TV aerial is on the roof above the stack, and a powered KEF Class D subwoofer is at the bottom. TV reception is perfect until the subwoofer is switched on, which totally annihilates the picture. The solution, as mentioned in your article, is a couple of cheap ferrites clamped around the subwoofer's power cord. What is happening is that the Class D amplifier in the KEF in injecting high frequency electrical noise into the power cable. The obvious effect is interference with low-level broadcast digital signals, but equally this noise is injected into other components on the same circuit. |
@skids - so many cable options, no easy answers. My personal list of PC based upon others positive reviews (prices not current):
Audio Bacon 2019 PC shootout here |
To classicrockfan: You are 100% correct. As long as a power cord is thick enough to handle high current, any such a cord is good. The cheaper, the better. Power code can not affect audio sound quality (maybe 1 - 2%?). I have Vienna Mahler speakers. My pre, power amp is very old and relatively cheap. Onkyo pre, Yamaha 200W power. Cheap but thick power cords, $20 interconnect everywhere. The sound? Awesome!!! Please, do not waste your money, just get higher end speakers as you can afford.
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