Wow thats quite the power cable loom too...rewards are worth the wait.I like when some time passes...youre listening and a nice piece of music comes up and you notice "dam that sounds good...allright!"
Power Cable Break In - Such a Change!
I installed a new AudioQuest Dragon Source power cord from my Lumin X1 to my Niagara 7000. The power cord from the wall to the Niagara 7000 is also a Dragon but the High Current version. I bought that cord used.
So, when I first started using the new power cord everything sounded great. However, after a couple of days I started hearing a strident sound. Especially in the upper mid/ treble region. The bass was also constricted. I started blaming the sound change on another piece of equipment that was installed concurrently.
Now, I was under the impression that the Dragon power cord with its DBS system required no break in. But I did inquire about it to AudioQuest who responded that it would still need about 150 hours to break in. It's been close to that now and sure enough yesterday I started hearing the glorious sound that I heard from day one with the power cord only perhaps better.
I must say the difference during break in and now is quite remarkable, I don't remember any other power cord going through this amount of dramatic change.
ozzy
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What about cotton then? |
Yeah @ozzy I speared off thinking about the higher freq interconnects and speaker cables. |
Regarding that dielectric polarization/break-in time factor: My first SR power cable (Reference A/C Master Coupler, w/Polyethylene), didn't have their active shielding and MPC. Took quite a while. That cable's feeding a Hafler 9505 subwoofer amp, now. My second* had the MPC/active shielding (still: Polyethylene) and performed with excellence, straight from the box, with very little change over time. A major difference, twix the two. *Feeds Stealth Power Purifier and the rest of the system.
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