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I guess a cord that emphasizes lower midrange/upper bass, preferably without sacrificing too much of lower bass quality that VD provides.IMO, IMS, IME, YMMV apply, as always, but still...
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You should think about your interconnects, speaker wires, and maybe your speakers.Hukk
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Deep-down satisfying. Never heard a power cord do this. Mortgage your marriage.
try out some of DCCA power cords! excellent!
I second Al Sekela's recommendation. Try the Hammond 193L wired to a brass plug. Wire the choke's longest black lead to hot, shorter black lead to neutral and ground the choke using the metal casing to the AC male plug. Any 14ga. or larger three conductor AC rated cable will work. Try to keep the length of the cable as short as possible. Plug the choke into the same duplex as your Virtual Dynamics Nite. Wait at least 5 days to judge or critical listening. Inexpensive tweak and works like magic for me.I have been experimenting with higher end power cords in my system for about 4+ years. I own some really expensive ($2K+ retail) power cords. Recently Alan Maher has truly showed me the light. He tells me what is going to happen when I try something, before it happens..freaky. Ask Alan and see what he has to say.
Good luck...
...terminated with Wattgate plugs will do the trick!Best low bass of any PC that I have heard :-)
Power cords certainly differ in how much of the music your system can deliver when they are installed. Part of this has to do with the cord's inherent electrical properties, part to do with its mechanical vibration properties, but a lot of the performance has to do with how the cord participates in your system's electrical noise environment. Your system will sound bad in a noisy environment regardless of how good any individual power cord may be.Mid-bass vagueness and midrange dryness are symptoms of RF noise. Unfortunately, there is no simple magic bullet to cure RF noise. Every cord and cable in your audio system, every power supply in your audio components, every non-audio appliance more sophisticated than a toaster, and your house's power wiring, all combine to establish your RF noise environment.
You may get more benefit from using a simple tweak like the Hammond 193L choke wired as a parallel filter (posted by Alan Maher) than by swapping power cords.
In my system and to my ears, power cords change so much that it would be strange to assume "fullness" of the sound wouldn't be affected.Which doesn't mean of course that tweaking something else wouldn't work. Couple of thoughts:
1. There's relatively widespread opinion that power cords also act as filters, at least some of them.
2. There's discussion on these pages of PS Audio Noise Harvester vs. other "filtering" tweaks. Would be interesting to try both and compare.
Yes, you can affect fullness of the sound, which I would call a warm, natural, and revealing midrange and mid-bass. We do not often think of 'revealing' as applied to mid-bass, but it can be a real consequence of removing RF noise.My point is that achieving this tonal quality requires reducing the effects of RF noise in your whole audio system and in your house wiring. A single power cord change may modify the RF noise environment, but cannot resolve all RF noise problems. Hence my recommendation of Alan's Hammond choke tweak (the parsimonious audiophile's version of the Richard Gray Power Station).
All electrical cables that are terminated in mis-matched impedances act as filters, so that includes just about all audio power cords. The filtering action may not be what you want, however. Low-loss cables with severe impedance mis-match terminations are high-Q resonators, and the resulting amplification of selected RF tones (in the VHF and UHF bands, primarily) can cause significant problems when these tones intermix with the audio signal. They result in spurious audio-band tones that mimic overtones, but are not musical because they are not necessarily even-order harmonics of the musical fundamentals. They cause a dry, disconnected midrange and a veiled mid-bass, as well as excessive treble energy.
IMO, cables with lumped-element filters built in to them are not successful because the remaining segments of the cable act as resonators.
I agree...don't bother wrapping power cords...too many things can go wrong is not done correctly. Experimenting gets expensive after awhile. The choke is the right wat to go.
Chris Venhaus' Flavor cords would do the trick...
I had F1 and F4 in my system. Yes, I did my best to break them in before listening, and, ultimately, returning.Main problem - both, but especially F4, instantly made the soundstage less 3D, flatter so to speak. Comparing to VD Nite - well, in my system there was no comparison, in different leagues entirely. Although you're probably right - they provided some of that "fullness" I'm asking for.
Did those both have metal shields on them? i know the Flavor 1 does.I can only vouch for the unshielded twisted pair cable in a Flavor 2 design, it knocks the DH Labs AC Power Plus cable's i've been using in the dirt...
Seems to me like CV's tone is spot on and my amp images SO much better with the unshielded twisted pair.
I probably won't get into the Flavor 4 for a while..none of my stuff draws enough current. For powered subs, a phono preamp and a cable to power the power strip...its gonna be CV's unshielded twisted pair in the Flavor 2 design.
lots of 'life' in the cable i recomend.
I fully endorse the JPS Aluminata!
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