Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord.


Anyone have any thoughts on this power cord?  I would be using on McIntosh  611’s.

128x128bwguy

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Funny when I spoke to Jason a while back he had the same recommendation. I think maybe these places get a SPIF or something for selling those brands?

Whatever you get please write back as I would love to know what you hear. I won a power cord from TMR and heard no difference from stock power cords. I have it plugged into the Streamer figuring best to have any improvement at the beginning of the sound chain.

Best. JH

@bwguy so in that case more detail would be not good?  If so then try cables that don't add to the detail and push the system in that direction.

I have been going through a similar experience where my Esoteric DAC/Streamer was detailed and my pass labs XA25 was warm leaning. Seems to always be a balance between detail and warmth and selecting components/cables etc that add to either side of the equation.

I love this stuff!  

I did comparison between AQ Robin Hood Speaker cables and a no name brand. I heard a diff in the highs and had a friend listen who heard the same difference.  I didn't tell him what I hear first.  Anyway there is a diff in sound but subtle. 

What sound do you prefer (hyper detailed or warm leaning).  What are the other components and to your ear are you hearing more warmth or more detail and which way to you want to go.  That will help you a lot in narrowing choices

 

@bwguy 

I had the N05XD which was a streamer/DAC/Pre-amp.  No interconnects needed.  I swapped it out for a Reimyo 777 DAC, SPL Director Preamp and Lumin U2mini streamer. Then traded the XA25 for the SPL S1200.  My system is now very accurate but the 777 made it holographic. I have to down sample all music to CD quality as the 777 doesn't not do any over sampling or hi-res music