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<!-- #thumb --> <p>This morning I am heading over for the second of the amplifier shootouts to see what kind of progress we’ve made. *On my system it certainly sounds significantly better, but we shall see.</p>
<p>There’s been some conversations going on over on our Community Forums about power cables – why do they sound different than stock cables – and perhaps even a bigger question, is that actually true.</p>
<p>There’s pretty universal acceptance that signal cables make a difference but the same cannot be said for power cables. *Here we have clearly opposing camps of thoughts on the matter: one camp would suggest only the wire gauge (thickness) matters, while other believe everything matters.</p>
<p>Of course you know where we stand on the matter – we make a line of aftermarket power cables.</p>
<p>I thought I’d begin this series with the story of how we built one of the first aftermarket high-end power cables on the market, many, many years ago.</p>
<p>I will tell you up front the entire process was seat of the pants – the only measurements we made that had any meaning were noise related – we tried in vain to measure any differences whatsoever in connected power supplies without any success. *I believe the guys over at Shunyata claim to have figured it out from a measurement standpoint and if true, I am impressed</p>
<p>But, perhaps as you follow along with the story, the trials, the tribulations and the results, it may give you a bit of insight into this whole subject that you didn’t have before.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow.</p>
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<p>There’s been some conversations going on over on our Community Forums about power cables – why do they sound different than stock cables – and perhaps even a bigger question, is that actually true.</p>
<p>There’s pretty universal acceptance that signal cables make a difference but the same cannot be said for power cables. *Here we have clearly opposing camps of thoughts on the matter: one camp would suggest only the wire gauge (thickness) matters, while other believe everything matters.</p>
<p>Of course you know where we stand on the matter – we make a line of aftermarket power cables.</p>
<p>I thought I’d begin this series with the story of how we built one of the first aftermarket high-end power cables on the market, many, many years ago.</p>
<p>I will tell you up front the entire process was seat of the pants – the only measurements we made that had any meaning were noise related – we tried in vain to measure any differences whatsoever in connected power supplies without any success. *I believe the guys over at Shunyata claim to have figured it out from a measurement standpoint and if true, I am impressed</p>
<p>But, perhaps as you follow along with the story, the trials, the tribulations and the results, it may give you a bit of insight into this whole subject that you didn’t have before.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow.</p>
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