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Should I upgrade the cable of my Line Conditioner?

Hi,

Just a simple question I hope.   I have the Furman Elite-15 Power Line Conditioner.    Should I use the stock power cable to connect the Furman to the electric outlet or should I try to use a high quality 3rd party power cable?   Will it improve the sound if I do?

Would like hear your experience.   

Thanks very much.

128x128xcool

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williewonka
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@xcool - try a Zavfino UP-OCC power cable

  • it will make a nice improvement in dynamic performance and imaging

Regards - Steve

 

williewonka
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@xcool - I build my own high perofrmance DIY cables, so I have made all cables from the outlet to each component.

In my case I have the following cables from the wall outlet to the components

  • an 11 foot Extension cable with a dual socket outlet
  • I plug the amp directly into one of those sockets
  • I plug a 6 outlet Power Distribution box into the other socket of the extension cable
  • Into the Distribution box I plug my source components i.e.
    • a phono stage and
    • a Streamer.

So the power for each of the source components arrives through 3 seperate power cables and one power distribution center.

I have upgraded the cables and Distribution box many times and each time performance has noticeably improved.

But If a lower quality power cable is substituted for any of my cables then performance will suffer.

So to answer your ogirinal question - YES a good power cable on your conditioner will make a difference

  • i.e. provided - the other power cables being used are capable of performing to a similar level.

The Pangea power cables are better than stock cables,

  • but they would not perform to the same level as the Zavfino cables I mentioned in my post above.
  • So using just one Zavfino cables to connect to your conditioner - you might not notice too much difference.
  • Getting a Second Zavfino cable would allow you to use on your amp or source component would allow you to hear the improvement

Sorry for the long post - but as you can see, the question does not have a simple YES or NO answer

Again - take a look at Zavfino - they are the best bang for the buck out there because they use UP-OCC copper and advance cable geometries to boost performance

https://zavfinousa.com/collections/power-cables

Fina OCC Power Cable 14AWG - ZavfinoUSA

Take a look at this link to read what others think of them

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/zavfino

Regards - Steve

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