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10-13-2017 03:50 PM |
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Originally Posted by jayvis
(Post 871874)
Thanks for your input Grant. Your explanation seems to say that the Black Mamba CX power cord performance is purely conductor gauge dependent in high current applications. As compared to the current Venom HC (also 10 ga), how would the Black Mamba CX stack up?
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No, AFAIK, it's not purely conductor gauge dependent. The conductor gauge is certainly part of the equation for high-current applications, but as with all things Shunyata, not the entire story. These cords are much more sophisticated than just "large gauge" power cords. They are designed as a "system" where the component parts work synergisticially to provide a "whole that is greater than the sum of the parts". This is because of the supportive functional "interactions" of the individual design components; the interactions of these components creating a system of fuctional responses is what results in the higher overall performance than something as simple as the gauge of the conductors.
I'll let Grant chime in as the definitive word on this, but the Black Mamba CX series has better noise rejection than the Venom series, if I am remembering all my Shunyata info correctly! ;)
The line has changed pretty quickly over the last 5-6 years, so I am not fully up to speed on the "hierarchy" of which model cords provide the best performance. What i can tell you is that I am a big, big supporter of this company because it's products are based on real science and physics (and I've read and, as a scientist myself, can understand their key patents). One can make truly significant improvements to the overall quality and more importantly, listening experience and overall enjoyment from using Shunyata's products. In my experience, the more Shunyata products you use throughout your power distribution chain, the better. The benefits are additive. The higher you go up the Shunyata performance chain, the better. Unlike the diminishing returns of a lot of high-end audio products, you truly get what you pay for with increased performance concomitant with the increased engineering specification.
Personally, I'd rather go "down-market" in the engineering specification of my amplfication chain than remove Shunyata products from my reproduction chain. That's how significant I think they are.
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