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:

    • 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)
whyrichard

@karlss0n The reason that a manufacturer would never talk about an AC cable or frankly, any cable is rational and clear… Number one they don't want to enter into that ring, number two it would imply there's something wrong with the amplifier using a Chinese cord… I hope that makes sense to you. 
 

behind the scenes, every manufacturer I know is aware of the variety of differences, but it would be insane for them to talk about it publicly

@devinplombier thank you for the kind words… Pale emperor I agree is the best thing he’s ever done… But then again I like music with Groove and space :)

 

I don’t prefer the Shunyata stuff because of the videos or because of his PhD or his past experience as a military scientist… I simply have better ears than others do, and better monitoring than others do, and it’s 100% obvious that all of their AC cables have a unique quality to them, which may or may not be beneficial per cable, but all of them are better than a Chinese cord…

And frankly, every Chinese cord has its own subtle flavor, even though they are incredibly similar

 

mean if we don’t hear these things, it doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with us. It just means that the resolution of our system isn’t there, or it means that the differences don’t affect us personally and that’s great, save your money, enjoy your music…

 

But every single thing has a sound, all cables and capacitors have a sound, every single thing in a chain 

 

when we have spent every day for 30 years, criticizing out own chain, and comparing things in a treated environment, it is definitely possible to get to the bottom of the rabbit hole :)

 

 

This is my bread and butter. I am a cables and clean power first audiophile. I’m not even going to bother reading any replies from non cable believers. There wouldn’t be as many cable manufacturers as their are, with as many sales as there are, if the only people that were buying them were people that are lying to themselves and don’t mind just simply wasting money on cables. The simple fact is that cables in a high current system are bad. The closer to line level and low voltage the less the signal is degraded. But that doesn’t mean the dac and streamer side of cabling aren’t important. Everyone looks at normal cables as “they work”. They don’t.  You’re just so use to it. But go listen to g a good car system or Bluetooth earbuds and you will hear purity and ambience much better than your high end system. Because they are powered via battery (clean power) and are low voltage rsther than high current. I chased the root cause of this for years. I found cables that I believe to be the closest thing to no cables. But I’ll save that seemingly advertisement name drop for the day I drop my YouTube reviews. 
Aside from cables, you owe it to yourself to get a good power conditioner. The puritan 156 tool over the market a few years ago and is still going strong. Yes the upgraded cable you can bundle with it is worth the upcharge. There is an associated device called the ground master or the city master. The ground master allows you to link all your devices ground together and then exit to a grounding rod you will install in your yard which goes 8feet deep 

why you need clean power and grounding. The power in your house is dirty I guess. I watched a video on how electricity works and still unsure how magnetic waves moving electrons can be “dirty” but it is. Devices around your house send back disruptive signal. The effect the puritan gives you is that your music is cleaner. The ground master affect might be even greater. The reason being is that all your devices use 0 as a starting point. It is the baseline. It uses the ground as the reference so ground should be zero. But in your house it isn’t. Shown in a graph it looks like distortion all over the place. So basically it’s like your devices are getting ADHD instructions on where to go and what to do. The ground master makes your ground zero and you will for the first time hear that your devices are simply working a billion times better. Like you gave your adhd equipment ADEROL. 
the city master is similar device for the ground but is for people that can’t run a separate grounding rod outside their house. They plug the city master into a separate outlet in their house. It is not as effective as the ground master though

It's kind of quaint when people actually write long-winded nonsense posts themselves. Nowadays most people would use AI.

How long you been waiting to write that one?  Probably have it on copy and paste for when you don’t agree with someone.  
whats so nonsense about it? Do tell.  Or is any comment over two sentences too much for you to handle?