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The $250 power cables and $600 power strip that dethroned my $10k Shunyata Everest
Hello fellow audiophiles. I've been using products from QSA Lanedri who I believe offer the best price to performance ratio on the market today for their power and signal cables. You may have heard of Quantum Science Audio fuses and might even have some installed in your system. QSA Lanedri have perfected this technology/treatment and are now offering it in their power and signal products. The line of products in particular is called Veridion Discovery which is their most affordable line. I currently own 2 Veridion Discovery power strips (daisy chained), 8 power cables, 3 ethernet cables, 1 DC cable. Initially I was sent a power and ethernet cable to try and was so impressed I ordered more including the power strips. I have been comparing their power cables to much more expensive cables from Audioquest and Furutech. I've also been comparing their power strip to my Shunyata Everest power conditioner and found I prefer the Discovery power strip. Infact I'm in the process of trading in my Shunyata Everest and corresponding Sigma X power cable for either a better integrated amplifier or speakers. Once you pair up Discovery power cables with the Discovery power strip things improve dramatically. Not only does audio improve but picture quality and home cinema improves also and will challenge anything at any price. I will say the Discovery line requires a few days of continuous use or "burn in" period before proper evaluation. I compared their Ethernet cables to the likes of Audioquest Diamond and Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 and again preferred the Discovery line. Through the Discovery products music sounds cleaner and clearer with a heightened sense of realism. This also applies to film and TV. Compared to the Shunyata Everest picture quality is now cleaner with more vibrant colours. Motion and panning shots are improved with less stutter. I will add that I have the power strips on Auva EQ CSA1 isolation footers. All of my equipment is sitting on Auva EQ footers which I found were better than the Isoacoustic Oreo footers I had previously. The Discovery products look very basic and don't scream high end but from my experience they can go toe to toe with the best at very affordable prices! They offer a 30 day money back guarantee for peace of mind. Definitely worth a look. Cheers.
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@mclinnguy when we’re talking outlets… Base material, plating, measures taken to isolate the outlet and contact area size all make a difference in sound. When something like Veridion treatment enters the conversation as a “secret sauce” applied to a $5 power cord that was not physically altered in any way (including the molded rubber plugs still intact), it causes a certain degree of suspension. What does the treatment of a $5 cable entail? Forget the $250 final price tag for a moment. What is done to this cable without physically altering it? |
@audphile1 I know you know, and you know I know, You know. But remember way back when we didn’t know? And even after we accepted that cables did change the sound, then we got into digital and most could not believe digital cables sounded different, but they do. And now the modem, and the power supply to the modem change the sound? Crackers.
No idea. And yes I am sure whatever they are doing they are investigating profiting in other industries as well as audio cables. Once a patent is released then of course everyone will know. But there is plenty of research going on. Like I mentioned above Shunyata does this: Shunyata Research’s Kinetic Phase Inversion Process (KPIP™ or KPIPv2™) is a proprietary conditioning treatment applied to the conductors in their audio and power cables. It is a four-day continuous process designed to refine the conductor metals at a molecular level. Sounds like BS, right? Well the cables sound pretty damn good, that is all I care about. Synergistic Research: What does 1 million volts do when all I need is 120V? No idea. Synergistic Research’s "Quantum Tunneling" is a proprietary high-end audio marketing term for a process using massive voltage (around 1 million volts) to treat cables and components, purportedly altering their surfaces and internal structures to create easier electron flow, reducing noise, and improving sound quality for more "realistic" audio, though it’s a highly specialized, non-traditional physics application for consumer electronics, not true quantum tunneling as understood in quantum mechanics. What does nitrogen plasma exposure do to copper oxide nanowire? This: It has been observed that, upon plasma exposure for up to 7 min, the conductance per unit volume of small-diameter NWs (d = 102, 118, 120 nm), measured in a two-terminal configuration, increases by up to five times (e.g., from 62.17 to 276 nS μm−3 for d = 102 nm) compared to that of the pristine NWs. What does "Deposition of oxygen-functionalized graphene on copper by conventional and modified electrophoretic deposition with bipolar high-impulses" do to a turd? No idea, but maybe it polishes it. This article is just a few days old. I am just trying to stay open minded, there is plenty of research going on. We don’t know what we don’t know. |
@mclinnguy your examples describe processes performed on conductors in most cases prior to final assembly. The $5 monoprice cable’s already built. I keep my mind open. Reading thru QSA website was entertaining. That’s as far as I’m willing to explore them. |
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