Totally agree with you RvL. I recently installed a PS108 special order made for The Audio Consultants with Furutech sockets which grip really tightly and secure your power cables. All you say is true about the uplift in sound quality especially the 3D sound stage and speed that it brings out. Another recommendation!
I power the bar with a high spec. gutwire power cable which increases the benefit.
That is great to hear @916SPS.
Another week on (a little more than 2 weeks now), the SQ improved and refined a bit further still. Really good.
Did you change the inlet for Furutech too? Mike from Puritan is very specific about plating. The plating being the same on the mating surfaces is at least as important as the plating itself, if not more. This is inline with my own experience fiddling with power cords and spur connections.
My PS108 has a standard Nickel plated C20 inlet. Currently I have a Furutech FI-32 Rhodium connector at the end of my spur. From the same range that Naim uses on EU Shuko Power-Lines. I took me a while to find a good audio grade connector with Nickel plating. The only one I found is from Shunyata. A remarkable choice from them btw.
After some back & forth emailing, they were willing to sell me one of their C19 CopperCONN connectors. (normally they don’t) It’s on its way now. Going anal all the way, I’ll use plain Nickel crimp sleeves too. The devil is in the details. I’m very curious how this ‘mod’ with turn out.
Yes you’re right! Stephen was badgering them all last year to make a version with the Furutech’s I think I had the first customer order, straight out of the box it impressed. It’s now been in the system for a couple of months and it gets better I’m hearing more detail and the drums are reallly sounding life like.
Have you tried any of the Gutwire power plugs - now they are something else. I’m surprised no one on the forum have referenced the. If you haven’t heard them ask for a demo. I’ve now got 12 of them
I’ve got a Gutwire ‘Pure Air Cube’ power plug connecting from the wall to the Puritan. Not sure what metal it is but it sounds phenomenal, very open and transparent. You should give one a try. I’ve replaced all my plugs with these and one of their top spec plugs for the S1 Pre Amp, they have all made a remarkable difference.
I only have a Gutwire B10 from the mains socket (furutech) to the 156. I have limited space - my rack is in a small alcove - and can only just manage the B10. It bought a worthwhile improvement over the puritan cable, although the puritan ultimate cable ran it very close.
Hi Lazyscott yes some of the bigger Gutwire power cables are a bit thick. This is a pic when I was testing them out and before the Puritan block arrived - a bit Dr Who! Once tidied away I could begin to enjoy the music - pic 2
I looked it up. Gutwire mainly uses Wattgate on their midrange and Furutech connectors on their high-end models. Mostly gold plated. Good thing they specify the connectors used and are not hush hush about it.
Wow, that is some set up! I only need 5 cables, but i would struggle to get them in.
I currently use the B10 and a mix of Shunyata Alpha & Delta and Puritan. I’m thinking of replacing the Shunyata delta nr with the puritan ultimate as that is very flexible.
Yes mine have the Furutech plugs. Even though they don’t have the same plating and I haven’t changed over the Puritan to a Furutech inlet, they seem to work very well.
I was lucky enough to go to an exclusive demo (world premiere?) At my dealer a few weeks ago where Chord’s new power strips were shown and demoed for the first time for consumers together with Chord’s entire range of power cables. Very exciting and interesting, the new power strips were great to listen to.
So it looks like some Chord M6 and S6 as models/prototypes? Did they share anything about the difference between them? I have no doubt that Chord would have put a very good mains block together, and listening would have been part of the development process.
Leaving all active mains conditioners type blocks aside, and assuming Chord is not one, I think to be competitive, they would still have to have implemented some additional technology on top of what we see in just the pure star wired approach from MusicWorks G3, Titan Eros or similar (e.g. Puritan PS108 mentioned above but thinly wired to me) and my guess would be for some passive (hopefully) or mildly mixed approach. In the mixed ones I would put e.g. the Ansuz Mainz and Shunyata Research Venom blocks which are interesting but I am not sure if they don’t go a bit too far into active/in line type filtering?
So in my mind it’s blocks like the SOtM MT 1000 or (with some doubts) Shunyata Research Venom that remain most attractive as an approach at present - pure(r) design, heavier than others gauge wiring (8mm2 SOtM and 6mm2 Shunyata) and additional but purely passive (SOtM) or a bit mixed (Shunyata) noise technology with no or negligible current compromise. If Chord have gone this way, they would be on my list.
No, it was not models or prototypes, it was the real thing. In the true Chord spirit, they have built products without filtering of any kind, instead they have implemented and further refined Chords ARAY technology in the products.