Power Cords for Ayre K-5xe and V-5xe

Regarding all power cords - they simply change the sound, and maybe not for the better. When I had a lesser system, I advocated changing power cords, but I have a cutting edge system with Ayre and actually, the factory power cords are very sufficient. I truly like them the best.

Brusso, your findings are interesting. I have played around with a number of other power cords and almost all bested the stock Ayre cords.

The reason my interest was renewed in the stock cords was because Richard Vandersteen told me that power cords can and do change the sound, but he doesn't subscribe to them. They can make it brighter, duller, etc which can certainly help or not the speaker/room/listener inface. In my setup, I dumped very expensive power cords that I used for my B&W 801D's and use the Ayre cords which sounded better with my Vandersteen 5A's. There is no right or wrong - you must trust your ears.

Interesting that Richard would say that. If you look on audioasylum.com, Charles Hanson from Ayre has commented on a few postings that he suggests upgrading the power cords on the Ayre amps...even the new $15,000 monoblocks. I do agree that power cords will change the sound, but in many systems I think the improvement in sound is drastic. To each his/her own. It's great if you can save the money and still enjoy the music.

I always find that everybody has his own take on things,if you want to hear a substantial improvement then try the V.D.Master ( I think John's statement was dead on in describing the differences in the V.D. cords).I have heard the Revelation on many different amps including Sim LE W-5(2)my MFA D75 Cat Mono's and the Karan KSA 180 Intergrated.The biggest asset to the cords is that they offer no form of tone control over the sound and just energise the music in such a way that you have no doubt concerning the p/c contribution!!I think that Kmiller is right about each to his/her own, but would find the V.D.power cords quite Killer X5!!Cheers Dennis