Power Cable Suggestions.

I can’t say I understand the gravitation towards cables that are made by some DIYer in their basement. You rely on someone voicing their cables in their system as opposed to companies that design cables to be as least intrusive and as transparent as possible. Puzzling but hey it’s your money.

I gave the IceAge cables a try and they were comically terrible.

If it’s new you need to give it at least 100 hours of playing time for it to break in otherwise you’re probably not hearing the cable near its ultimate best.  Lotsa cables take a good amount of time to reach peak performance and some don’t sound good at all outta the box. 

I got a pair used, but not even 10000000 hours will get these to compete with the entry level AQ or Isotek cables. But him claiming it could compete with the Dragon PC is laughable. He should have said that his cable could hold some ground to the AQ Monsoon. Although there is no way that would be true either, it would have made his cable look better. Its really just junk being sold for $300 when you can easily get one of those "audiophile" Chinese ones on Amazon for $50.

I lost $200 on the pair of Frankens I bought and it doesn't suck too bad. I learned my lesson, in this hobby like all things, you get what you pay for. No one is out doing charity for any of us. It could have been much worse. I could have bought them new for $600. If someone wants these. I can sell them both for $100 shipping included to cut my losses some.

my journey on power:   I changed my outlets to commercial grade 20 amp outlets one AudioQuest outlet.  In doing so I discovered the original outlets were installed the code which means The incoming and outgoing wires are not screwed down.   I also discovered a commercial grade outlets were preferable to my ears to the AudioQuest outlet.   I subsequently swapped out the AudioQuest outlet for a Synergistic Research outlet which came with one of their power cells    Maybe it’s better    This is all to say it’s worth checking out your outlet connections  

+1 on the Audience Forte.