Looking For 18awg Audiophile Power Cable Options
Hi Friends,
I'm trying to find some 18awg audiophile power cables and am looking for recommendations. It seems the only ones I can find are of the AudioQuest variety, but I don't like the sound of AudioQuest cables, as they sound too sterile to me (or something, it's hard for me to describe).
I have a music production system and while I use expensive Triode Wire Labs Digital American cables on the DAC, ADC, and production computer/DAW with fantastic and stable results, I've had problems with my other components running on any thicker-gauged cables (powered KRK monitors, microphone power supply, and preamps).
I've tried several different cables on these other components, but I find any cable with a gauge thicker than 18awg results in issues of sound stability. The system needs to run for 12, sometimes 18 hours at a time, and I find that thicker-gauge cables, after about 8 hours, start to render the sound compressed, maybe slightly overloaded, and not as open, which is problematic for mixing and recording.
I started using some 18awg cables with hospital-grade plugs, and while they're definitely a big step up from the stock cables, and the stability of the sound is great, I'm just wondering if there's any 18awg audiophile-type cables out there that would give me improved performance, smoother top end, etc., just from better noise/RFI rejection. The sibilants were smoother when I used the audiophile cables, I think from better shielding, but the stability of the sound of system and vocal chain is of the upmost importance.
It's weird but I guess it has something to do with the digital components handling the thicker gauged cables better for some reason, compared to the analog components.
Any ideas/recs appreciated, thanks for your time!
Yes. Knitting is a good hobby.
And @raysmtb1 everything I see here you posting leads me to believe you are a full blown cable hater and denier. Everything you say is a conjecture.
By the way, you never answered my question on the fuse
oh, and this? 😂😂😂
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@thyname i’m not sure what you mean by that everything I say is conjecture…. If you mean, my ideas are based on bad information or incomplete information, this would not be true. i’ll follow the manufacturers recommendations. It doesn’t matter what I think about the fuse, it was put there by an engineer, who knows more than I do about what size fuse belongs there. As far as the power cards, go, I trust underwriters laboratories…. Not some guy who decided to make power cables are on his kitchen table. I can’t believe that people will spend 50 K on a system and then put power cards on their systems that are not. Underwriters laboratories approved. If God forbid something happened and the house burned down, it would suck if the claim got denied because they found all these aftermarket power cords that weren’t approved. Those are the kind of things that they look for when there’s an accident…. Things that have been altered. |
That's very true. The difference being those components are in a case, while the power cable is open to contamination and needs to be shielded. Clean power is crucial. Start with the best conditioner and make sure it gets to your equipment without being open to contamination. Cables are important, but do not use plastic power boards. Go metal for shielding.
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