Hi Antonkk. While i have not A/B them I have owned products from both manufactures. I have had a Hydra 8 and Anaconda power cords in my system and I would say the Anaconda was impressive. While I liked the Hydra I can not say it was as big an improvement. At the time I had Nordost interconnects and speaker cables. I then want to MIT over the Nordost and heard an improvement. I replaced the Shunyata with Running Springs Audio Jaco PC and Mongoose PC and heard a slight improvement. A dealer let me demo some Synergistic interconnects and speaker cables and a Powercell 10SE with PC. Well the Powercell alone made a very noticeable improvement over the Jaco witch is highly rated. Mind you that Synergistic had the MK II out at the time and was an upgrade to the one I had tried. I then tried the Galileo Universal Speaker Cells with just the Basik cables that they come with and again a very noticeable improvement over the MIT. I had not left the Powercell in, I had put the Running Springs back in. Also a friend who is very familiar of the sound of my system also confirmed the difference on separate demos with no beforehand knowledge of what if anything to expect. The nice thing about the Universal Cells is you can use any speaker cable with them and get an improvement from that cable. But when the Basik cables that came with it beat out my MIT $8,500 cables I can live with the Basik for now. Synergistic just came out with a new MK III Powercell 10. If you can live with out the latest and want to save %50 you can pick up a dealer demo a used MK II SE. That is what I did (dealer demo) But if you can spend the extra the MK III is supposed to be a significant improvement from new tech that they came up with for a new prodect. Now I realize that Shunyata has also come out with new and improved versions and I can not compare but I have to say that if you can try and demo both. Just FYI Synergistic runs a free demo challenge. If you call them I am sure they would be glad to help you.
I am sure they would help guide you with what is best for system at the price point you want to spend.
Of course your MMV and this is MHO.
One more thing. I have no problem with a company who is researching and brings to market a worthwhile improvement in there products. They are also one of the few companies with a trade in/up program. And Shunyata also has had numerous versions of there power conditioners over the last few years. A dealer told me how his customers were complaining abut that.
I am sure they would help guide you with what is best for system at the price point you want to spend.
Of course your MMV and this is MHO.
One more thing. I have no problem with a company who is researching and brings to market a worthwhile improvement in there products. They are also one of the few companies with a trade in/up program. And Shunyata also has had numerous versions of there power conditioners over the last few years. A dealer told me how his customers were complaining abut that.