What is your power cord?

No experience in matching with power strip,but even on my matrix2 it sound great

the " Hospital Grade Green Dot Power Cord" I got on Amazon has “Well Shin” on the cable. So the tibia with hospital grade plugs?

Listening for some tracks I finally didn’t liked the big Kharma on the 555 dr. On other tracks the sound is a bit bright, less nice tonally. Had a little whouah effect which disappeared after. Now the Sarum t is still on the wall but the Kharma GR is connected to my 250 dr.
Will have to choose between that and previous set up where Kharma on the wall and Chord on the 555 dr.
I know that the best cable should be on the wall, but the Kharma GR ( silver) doesn’t work with all components.
So not so easy to find the right balance.

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I use the 10ft one of these to my Supra power strip in the server closet. Nicely made, though no idea of it’s comparative sonic ability as I installed it in conjunction with the power strip, which made a subtle relaxing of sound, part of the small percentages that add up. [quote=“vtpcnk, post:350, topic:8753, full:true”]
the " Hospital Grade Green Dot Power Cord" I got on Amazon has “Well Shin” on the cable. So the tibia with hospital grade plugs?
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so is ur green dot cable also a ‘well shin’? other reviews have reported other manufactuerers.

Roksan/Vertere PSU - Chord Sarum TA.
Superline/HC(DR) - Naim PL
CDS3/555 PSU - Naim PL
Nait 05 - Naim PL Lite
282/SC(DR) - NAIM PL
NAPSC - Naim Standard
250 (DR) Naim PL

All on dedicated Radial except NAPSC.

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I have never seen any real difference with a power cable - only once though in a negative way when I tried shunyata venom. [/quote]

Well, the Venom NR V-10 is no longer powering my DAC V1. Just too much bass, and loss of the Naim PRAT, though other things about it were really nice. I could love it if all I listened to was solo acoustic music, or even classical, but that’s just not the case. I put it on the Sonore power supply for the opticalrendu and there it shall live. A Tibia (with upgraded wall plug) is back on the V1, and the Naim balance and sound is back.

For a final trial, I’m going to try an AVOptions Tibia 12, chop the end off and attach a Furutech copper plug and leave the iec end as is (I find the AVOptions $140 surcharge to attach a $22 Wattgate a bit much). Hopefully this will fall somewhere between a stock Tibia and a meaty high end cable like the Shunyata.

It runs down behind some shelves, so I don’t know. The couple of sections I could see, there was no writing or embossing at all.

Couple of cords…Black Cat Silverstar with 20amp Wattgates, A Zen Wave Pl11 with Furutech NCF50’s and a pair of Audio Art SE’s with Furutech Fi28’s.

Impressive listing! Is there any specific reason why you haven’t put a Naim Powerline on the NASPC, connected to the 282? I’ve recently acquired two new Powerlines for both 282 powerunits: HC and NAPSC. But to my surprise, I’m not all sure about the added value of a PL on the NASPC, compared to Naim Standard. The overall sound looks like getting a bit too ‘spacious’, a bit 'hollowish". Any experience?

I’m going to buy Chords new power distribution block when it’s avalible to order. I have listened to a pre-production unit on two different occations in two different systems.
It made a obvious and good impact on sound quality on both occations :grin:
I have tried several other brands before and most of them have degraded the sound quality. I have been waiting for this product for a long time… :innocent:

Didn’t quiet understand
How did you listen to Chord power strip if it’s not available yet? good news

@MarcusM Hi Marcus, perhaps you’ve also heard the cables that can’t be spoken about?

No, not yet but a friend just recieved 5 for his system…

I listened to a pre-production unit at a dealer event in the beginning of the year. I think it was in february…
The system was NDX2 + XPS and SuperNait3 + HiCap into Neat speakers. Cables were Chord…

Second time was a few months ago with ND555, NAC252, NAP300 into Neat-speakers. Cables were Chord. We also compared EE8Switch vs UpTone EtherRegen in the same system.

Quite an interesting afternoon :grin:

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They’re seriously good.

How about ER vs EE?

Yes, he told me so. Have you listened or already bought your own?

I just bought a NAP500DR so nothing more for me in a long time except a Power distribution block :sunglasses:

The birdy ones :eagle:?

To my ears the EE8switch outperformed the ER + LPS-1.2 (and better dc-cable). There were no dought to my ears…

Since EE8Switch sounded better, looked better, did not run as hot, did not require several ”boxes” and on top of that also was cheaper it was a very easy chioce for me :blush:

I ordered one right away :innocent:

Sure, you can add better PS and an external clock and the ER will sound better. But right now I’m not very keen on having a switch for 5-6k GBP in three boxes that sounds a little better (or maybe much better) than the 8Switch. In a year or two there will probably be another even better switch to buy (since audiophile-switches are rather new products)

Time will tell :sunglasses:

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