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Review: Elrod Power Systems Gold Statement Power Cord Power cord

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My fresh impression of Gold Statement Power Cord - installed into my power conditioner so other component would benefit. It went instead of the old Statement, a;ready one of the best in the world power cords - so it was not comparison with $5 stock power cord.

Two hours right out the box - My 1st reference disc: soundtrack to movie Gladiator tracks 2,3 (female voice, Spanish guitar and large orchestra) - a bit aggressive highs (to be broken-in, obviously), midrange is very nice and bass, oooh that BASS, THE BASS - yes, sirry, now I have IT...the bass...Did I mentioned about bass? Slam is furious, each instrument is superbly tighten up (more palpable, more 3D, more presence). Brrrrrr...

My piano reference disc is "Nogima plays List", Reference Recording. Again - "impossible to believe bass"; much better then with my previous speakers with huge subwoofers, Diapasons by Dick Shahinians - more accurate, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight - very rich (just touch it !) and deep. The most realistic piano depiction I ever experienced (besides real piano, of course). Particularly in left hand octaves. (The right hand octaves were excellent in my system before that and it will open much more later on ). Incidently, I am (was? ) professional pianist

Another example - " Picture at Exhibition" (Reiner, RCA XRCD2) - . One word WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK, you want description - here it is: "space is final frontier" - I never imagine that we can "float" in HUGE soundstage space and each instrument is palpable and 3D like a planet - all by itself surrounded by THE space. And all in golden midrange glow....

Jaws dropping experience...

One more thing. The perceived loudness increased by at least 3 dB - don't ask me how - I had to diminish volume control on my preamp by one notch to get still slightly "louder" sound.

To say that addition of this power cord is equivalent to addition of separate component would not be true. Extraordinary component - may be !!!!!!

Thank you for reading it

Associated gear
Marantz-14 SACD/CD (heavily modified by Stan Warren).
Home built tube preamp
Spectron Mk2 monoblocks w/all upgrades
Audio Analyses, Omega speakers
Acoustic Revive RTP-6
cables - all Elrod

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strapper211
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Hi Bostonbean,I am totally impressed with David Elrods new offerings.His power cords,interconnects and speaker cables are superb efforts,especially the gold.Maybe the best out there.MAYBE?

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Hi,I just added a picture of one of the Gold statements on my System,man are they meaty.Reminds me of a Boa,but they sound out of this world good,I think they are the best on the market.PERIOD.
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Hello Strapper211...Nice pictures of the Elrod Gold Statement power cord, it looks like a tight fit. Did you get the chance to compare the Elrod with the Silent Source Music reference power cord and are you running the Elrod Gold Statement power cord through the Walker Velocitor S AC Filter or are you going directly to the electrical outlet?
strapper211
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Hi Unoear,I have 3 so far.1 on the turntable motor,1 on the tuner and 1 going into the Velocitor.I had a bybee supercord on the velocitor and before that a silent source cord before that but the Gold statement is in a league of its own.I have 3 more coming tues for the pre-amp and amps,I have only had them a week but am totally impressed with them.They are big and careful placement is a neccesity even if a hook or a tie is involved but the orange ends are quite flexible its the black part that is quite stiff,but after hooking them up and listening you forget all about the cord.
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strapper211
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Hi,I have have changed all my power cords from VD genesis to Elrod Gold Statement ( 6 of them ) and am in the process of burning them in.I put my old power amp tubes back in for this not wanting to waste my newer tubes,I am running the system on tuner about 12 hours a day for a week now and letting the turntable just spin with no record.I am so impressed by these cables,they are starting to go deeper,open up and very transparent,tremendous slam in the midbass,natural 3d top end.I was told by Mr.Elrod they have a long way to go but my god are they special,if you have a system thats almost there try these,they will put it over the top.
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