Comparing Virtual Dynamics and Tranparent Audio

You didn't say what IC's the VDs replaced. Were they Transparent Audio?? If they were, I'd put my money on the dedicated lines!

VD makes good stuff, but it's not going to make that kind of improvement (if any) over Transparent Audio or any other expensive high quality product. What you describe is what always happens after dedicated lines are installed.

If you really want to be fair, now put the Transparent ICs back in, and see if your system doesn't sound pretty much the same as with the VDs. Let us know :~))

"Know other cable that I know of comes close to VD cables. Call Rick and transform your system. Brian"

OK Brian, I'll bite:

What other brands/models of IC and PC have you personally A-B'd with VD cables, apples-to-apples in the same system, which led you to the above conclusion??

Just curious :~))

Brian, thanks for your overview. It really is very helpful to know what else a person has tried, even if it wasn't a direct A-B, and even if they didn't try one's own favorite cable! The Purist Dominus is the best I've ever heard on my amp, even better than the Purist Venustas, although they're both 10 AWG. So maybe I will give the VD Master a try.

IMO, power amps are the acid test for power cords. Or to put it a different way: If placing a particular power cord on the power amp doesn't improve the sonics of your system -- specifically: tighter bass, better center fill of the soundstage, better transients and blacker noise floor and (belive it) louder volume at a given preamp setting, then it probably won't do anything special elsewhere in your system (where differences are sometimes a little harder to identify.)

Thanks again for the details.

Neil

Fplanner, your experience or experiments may have led you to your particular conclusions. Mine have led elsewhere.

My conclusion about power cords (and I'm sticking to it) is that it's all about power transfer -- the higher and faster the better. I have discovered that certain shielding configurations (when shielding is even used) may yield subtle variations with some front end stuff (especially CDP, CDT, and DACs) but my conclusion is otherwise the same.

Power transfer, of course, is affected by many factors in addition to wire size, but that's still the biggest single parameter IMO.