PS Audio Power Plant Premier Power Cables

I am skimping on the cable from the wall to the PPP on the ground that if the PPP regenerates the power anyway, why would you need a expensive cable for AC coming in? You could test this theory by switching your AC-12 with the cable between souce component and PPP. Things should get better.

coming out of the PPP, I use AC-12s thoughout (preamp, player and DAC) with stellar results. To be honest I always considered expensive cabling a waste of money until I discovered the AC-12s.

I may (reluctantly) give it a try. I have one AC-12 between my PPP and universal player (used for MCH only), one between PPP and PWD/Bridge, and one between PPP and preamp, so I could very easily swap the AC-12 of one of my source components with the outlet to PPP cord to test the hypothesis. My sceptism has been proven occasionally misguided and sometimes justified. We'll see.

Thanks for reminding me. Have not gotten around to it yet. Too busy playing around with my new transparent audio ICs and speaker cables. Will give it a try soon.

I swapped out my $150 heavy gauge cable for an AC-12 and found there to be no improvement. Should I move further up the cable foodchain to get the results you guys appear to be getting? I have been a PC sketic until the AC-12 finally delivered, but between wall and PPP (soon to be P5) it did not work.

I finally bit the bullet and tried a pair of the Shunyata Phyton CX between the wall and my now 2 P5's. Fully expecting to hear no improvoment over the cheap (but very heavy gauge) cords I am currently using, I sat back and listened. It took me all of 15 seconds into the first track I was playing to hear substantial improvement.

I'll refrain from trying to describe the difference and will just keep it at "better" across the board. These Shunyata's are definitely staying. By the way, these cables are suprisingly light - not a lot of copper for a cable listed at $1200. Not sure what their secret sauce is, but it works.

I am even intrigued by the idea of swapping out a few more. I have currently a mix synergistic precision AC (preamp), PS Audio AC-12's (source components) and Mojo XPC-7's (poweramps). Any suggestions on which cable(s) to substitute for another shunyata are welcome.