Powerline-Lite to Powerline on ND555

[Blackbird]

@Franco

in fact the plug of the powerline cable is furutech, inform yourself before writing …

For Schuko yes. I’m fully aware of that of course. That doesn’t affect my comment.

[Canaryfan]

@GraemeH

What I’m noticing most is the presence of all the individual instruments in a piece is greater. Like they are playing against a quieter background. This enhances all the subtleties, like fingers on strings for example, thus taking you closer to the performance. Everything feels more present, solid in space if you like.

I have heard cables make differences to systems, including mine, but always very subtle & more often than not, no difference at all. So I am not a total cable skeptic but very much of the ‘I doubt it will make any difference’ camp.

Having seen so many posts on the forum saying how good the Powerline was compared to the Powerline-Lite on the Nova was, I was persuaded to get a Powerline home demo from my dealer a couple of weeks ago.

The result was the installation of my new Powerline this morning & your description of the improvement Powerline produced is exactly how I would describe it as well. Much to my surprise.

If I can use percentage terms, installing a Karousel on my LP12 bought a 10% SQ improvement. The Powerline was less, say 4 or 5%. However, whereas the Karousel lift in SQ only benefited my vinyl, the Powerline improvement does of course benefit all sources.

Not much else I can do to the Nova so roll on the Supernova!