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Review: VH Audio Flavor 4 Power cord

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My original goal was to try to purchase 2 cords for my Thor monos. My original choices to consider were Virtual Dynamics,Ridge Street Audio and Silent Source. After window shopping for a bit I realized I couldn't afford 2 cords of the companies mentioned so, my choice was to forget it or try something more affordable to me. My system sounded great but I seem to get this uncontrolable urge evey once in awhile to upgrade,so I decided to investigate more affordable options.
After reading many reviews I decided to try VH Audio.I asked Chris ( owner ) about which "Flavor" would be my best option and he mentioned the Flavor4.
My music listening amounts to mostly piano jazz,female jazz singers and some other various jazz stuff.
Right off the cords aounded very out of sinc and dark.
After aprox. 10 hours things changed big time. Much better detail and very nice mids but still a little dull. At about 30 hours the difference is amaizing.
Depth is incredible.Detail is a better but ,has an uncanny level definition.Every sound is crystal clear and sharply defined with still has great weight and pace.
The words and instuments seem to just float forever. I am currently at about 40 hours and improving all the time. I was told 200-300 hours and it may take me 6 months to get there but wanted to let every one no what a bargian the cords are. I will do a follow up at a latter date when I no for sure they are all broken in....

Associated gear
Kharma 1.0 spkrs- Thor Audio TPA Monos-T1000 linestage-Meridian 508-24 cd-
wires Ridge Street Poeima i/cs and sp.cables

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As for break in procedure, I have one of those IEC to AC adapters & just plug the PC into a very heavy duty fan I have out in the garage & turn it on for a week.

The Flavor 4 is the best PC I've put on my amp and pre amp for that matter. Before doing the DIY thing with 83802 several years ago, I tried a lot of different PC's & some of them choked the soundstage & bass right out of the system. I followed Chris' development of his wire & made a bunch of Flavor 2's & then tried the Flavor 4.

I inadvertently plugged both an Ayre V-5x & V-1x into the same 20 amp dedicated circuit & it tripped the breaker. I repeated this just to verify it wasn't an anomaly before moving the amps to separate lines. This also happened with the V-1x & Classe CP50 pre, so my thoughts are the Flavor 4 allows full current draw to the amp. Never happened before with other PC's.

The first thing I noticed using the Flavor 4 on the amp was more bass presence & that presence is more defined & tighter. On the pre it took the edge off, although I recently changed from an ARC & thought the Classe to be more forward.
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