Thanks for posting in this thread @brianlucey
If you were forced to pick a couple of albums from your catalogue you were most proud of from an audiophile "best sound quality" standpoint, which would you recommend?
Diving into Power... Cable recs for my system and ears....?
Hello All,
I have been enjoying a full system upgrade over the past year... the interconnects and digital cables were an eye opener! Now I am bringing my attention to power...
I am currently running my components off a power strip that is 10' long... supposedly designed for audio. All my major components are plugged into this. This power strip is plugged into a wall outlet, which is shared with some lights etc. Also plugged into this power strip is my wifi router.
I have a few questions:
-What is the most important in regards to impact to overall sound if I were to upgrade the power cords? My guess its: 1: Amp.... 2: DAC... 3: Streamer... is that right? Or is it the opposite?
-Should I have an electrician setup a dedicated outlet to my electrical box, and run my main components off that? Is this worth it? or is there another setup between my electrical box and my components? Or if there is no detectible buzz, should I simply not bother?
-If I should begin looking into power cords as the first upgrade here, what cord would you recommend if I yearn for the following: Extreme startling presence and separation... magic midrange, highs blissful, voice acoustic jazz violin, piano... essentially startling presence as if the instrument is right there...
I have been enjoying Anticables, and they have a well rated cable in the $300 range which supposedly is as good or better than $1000 cables... but I am open to recommendations...!
Thank you all!
Richard
Currently my system (also outlined in my virtual system profile) is as follows:
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- SPEAKERS: Pure Audio Project Duet 15 Horn (Mundorf Silver Gold Oil Cap upgrade and customized crossover w/high pass filter and sweeter meds), Anticable 4.2 Flex Internal wire)
- STREAMER: Nagra Streamer (Cardas Clear Coaxial)
- DAC: HoloAudio Spring 2 Level 3 Kitsune edition (Silversmith Fidelium RCA Interconnects)
- AMP: PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium HP Integrated (RAY TUBES EL34 Reserve power tubes, RADIOTECHNIQUE NOS 12AU7 Gain tubes w/Mullard NOS and Brimar NOS tubes (Anticables 4.2 Flex to speaker)
- PHONO: Music Hall MMF-9 and McIntosh MP 100 Preamp (Audio-Technica AT160ML MM Cartridge, Anticable 7.3 and Silversmith fidelium Interconnects)
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Most folks on this forum can’t tell schematics from the Bayeux tapestry, and here you are goading them with noisy diodes... You’re creating a monster 😂😂🤣 Love the Black Keys albums, thank you for those! |
@ktarver I would encourage you to investigate the Shunyata research website, the founder has a PhD and used to work for the government, everything he does is based in science
here's the short version which I'm sure you will understand… AC Power is a 60 cycles sine wave and that wave is subject to noise that is beyond human hearing, that noise alters the shape of the waveform and the altered shape of that waveform affects the way that power supplies receive the AC power, and this is what makes the sound change…
It is through eliminating inaudible noise that we get closer to a pure sign wave at 60 cycles or 50 cycles or whatever it may be…
And this definitely changes the sound, in fact, I would bet you $10,000 that if you were in my studio and I changed out one power cord in my studio even you would hear it…
Engineering degrees skills aside, you could be nearly deaf, and as biased as you are ... and you would hear it, it's not subtle |
@devinplombier thank you, however, I'm only responsible for mastering Brothers, El Camino, and turn blue :) |
@mclinnguy that's a difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons I am proud of every record I do because it sounds good to me and it sounds good to the client. But if we step back from it, there are a handful that I think you might think are fantastic
The Teskey Brothers, the winding Way Chet Faker, built on Glass The Black Keys, Brothers Michael Bublé, higher The greatest showman soundtrack Marilyn Manson, the pale emperor ok go, (newest record) Buddy Guy, ain't done with the blues
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