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Power cords can make a tremendous difference in Digital

I have been into this Hobby - Quest for over 35 years ,and have spent more then a nice home on Audio .
the older I get the less I want to shell out the big bucks.audio wiring in general is Waay over priced 
I owned a Audiostore and know the markup 4-6 x in some cases even more .it depends on what they can get always with . For the record ,Occ Or -0 Crystal Copper ,Silveris by far the purest
and will give you the clearest signal path ,  that being said there are only 4 companies in the World
licensed to make this to the Original patented design from Japan .
i Built my own using Furutech Occ-6-9s pure Copper awg 14 for my Belcanto dac
also using the same Furutech Occ Copper male and female connectors ,plus on the dac Furutech Copper IEC input . I had a $500 Kimber power cord on it , this new power cord gave me at least 
another $5% more musicality across the board, and very cross sonicly to my brothers $1300 Shunyata
power cord , since they also use similar quality wire  it tells me why pay the extra when in an hour 
I can make my own .VH audio sells the cable and connectors,and when you pay a 15% discount on the wire. Why pay 3X what it cost me to make for similar results ,this too applies for Furutech awg 12 Wire.  https://www.vhaudio.com/furutech-fp-tcs21.html
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shkong78
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Yes

I had tried 1500$ Synergistic Power cable 20 years ago.

It had the most effect on DCS Elgar Dac and I had ended up buying that one.

Now I use Synergistic Blue power cables(600$) on Chord Dave Dac


But isolation transformer also helps a lot to improve the sound out of Dac.

You can buy 500 Watt model around 100$ from Amazon.

The nice thing of Amazon is that it is easy to return if you do not like it.

Thus I recommend you to try out isolation transformer before trying out expensive power cables.

Thomas
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shkong78
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R5CDG8O/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Connect only Dac to above and test the difference with or without it.

If it makes noticeable difference, then you can keep it.

Otherwise you can return easily with Amazon.

In my case, it makes subtle but noticeable difference, thus I bought total two of them.

I use one more for CD transport.
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