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Sound quality aside, common sense works both ways. You are not going to get the same quality construction, best materials, and attractive (esthetic) appearance with a $12 stock power cord as you are with a reasonably price after-market power cord from a reputable manufacturer. There is value in satisfaction and pride of ownership that goes beyond sound quality.
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Does your McIntosh benefit from fancy power cables?
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+1. Call me vein, paranoid, whatever you want, but after investing $X0,000 in my music room/system, I couldn’t live with the stock PCs.
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I replaced all my power lines in the walls to 12 gauge, use Shunyata receptacles, Shunyata power cables with amps(MC275’s) into the walls and a Shunyata AV distribution to my C500T and Aesthetix Rhea.
No comparison to stock cables. It is pitch black silent. It has amazing dynamics, wonderful resolution and soundstage width outside the walls. |
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I will never use a stock cable again after hearing what Shunyata power cables have done for my system.
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I do not use that stuff they push on AVS or the awful Audioholic site for interconnects. I use Audioquest, Wireworld and Pangea. My long runs of Cat 6 I used Blue Jeans. (full disclosure) I have however never replaced a power cord. Just seems a bit extreme to me. Yet, I ran separate 20 amp lines for each power amp, with hospital grade outlets. I always buy SACD's and hi-res downloads if available yet I have never heard a differance. Why? Well, as you stated, it's makes me feel good and also, why chance it? --------------------------- I'd be absolutely shocked if a double blind study showed that a power cord made sound perceivable different and on top of that if the difference were always perceived as "better." --------------------------- Funny thing is, I might just look around for some power cords after your post. Not sure why I developed a mental block to them but not interconnects. Like I said, Why not? |
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Yeah, I think I may start shopping... what's on sale and reasonable? |
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I heard a more noticable difference between power cables, than I did trying to compare 320 and flac on my paradigm computer speakers. He had a sweet nordost cable, and he found a standard cable he kept in his office. It wasn't an OEM Mc cable, it looked like a standard 18 gauge would work with any appliance with a removable cord. My Mc amp came with a 14 gauge cable. What I heard was audible, even if just subtle. But was I tricked by because the cord may have been lesser than OEM cables? I don't know. If you can suspend disbelief for a minute, does the fancy power cable sound better because it's a heavier gauge wire? Is it better shielding? The dealer stated that the cable is braided a special way that blocks noise naturally, that sounds fishy. Is it that it's silver plated copper? I'm a manufacturer of consumer products myself, and I know what it costs to build some things. In my industry, actual material costs make up 10% of the final retail price. Labor makes up 12%. The rest is overhead, management, marketing, etc. If Mc spent as little as $50 on upgrading the cable the product price may go up $500 to do so. On the other hand our amps are a premium product and should have the best cables with no audible sacrifice. |
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Something else often missed is that when we buy a product we are also buying into a tribe. |
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The information and the link to the video are in the posts by Grant that I cited. It is all there.
Additional information and the link to the video again are in posts by Grant in the Shunyata forum in the thread about Black Mamba CX power cords. |
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