I have only ever used Audioquest cables and agree with Paul.I also,after many years,have found that the best material to use for a cable is copper.Anything with silver will give you an over revealing sound which can become sibilant.Copper has magic qualities,it warms the sound as well as letting through all the music and none of the electronics.I used to say to the guys at the audio outlets that somebody must be frying a steak in the recording studio,to me that is what over revealing cables sound like...somebody frying steak.Put on the copper and the chef leaves the room.
I will only use Audioquest and have for almost 30 years now. I love it when Paul says have fun, because that’s what it’s all about. A life without music live or recorded is something I can’t even begin to imagine!!
Because audio and power cables make such a big difference, I am constantly swapping out my cables depending on my mood. When I want more treble, I use certain cables. More bass? I switch cables again. More resolution? I switch cables. Since my pre-amp does not have tone controls, I have stacks and stacks of cables... this is now how I EQ my system. Constant cable changes. Its a lot easier doing this than say, turning a knob for bass or treble adjustment.
Another 'link' in the audio chain.. albeit, not a 'day and night' one. As an electrician I learned, a cable's a cable, period. ... however, ..problem is, _I have heard differences with different power cables_ and I can't really explain why is it so! Yes, logic and theory as well as measurements tell me that this is not possible. And yet, there was a difference there which I did not imagine. There's something at work there that we cannot put our finger on..
Blue Jeans cables are also very nicely made and very low in capacitance without costing a fortune, but if you can afford em, AQ makes some very nice cables too.
Why do folks like you feel the need to put down others with facetious comments just because some of us choose to spend our money on things that we feel improves the sound of our system? Surely folks such as you have more important issues address in your quest to put the world to rights! And please don't respond with a physics lesson, even pedants such as you must know that science is a method for measuring and understanding the world, not placing limits on what exists and is possible.
@@dap777754 Given the impracticality of the suggestion, how could it not be taken as anything but a joke? In any case I would have expected someone with even a passing interest in hi-fi to have known that his suggestion would not be necessary, because all he would have to do is get a decent power conditioner or replace his equipment with battery-powered devices.
On my older system the speaker cables made a huge different it was like pulling a veil off them but on my current it didn't matter nearly as much. What I find when it comes to interconnect and speaker cable is that more expensive does not mean better in some system the cheaper was better and the other the expensive ones. So what that tells me is it has to do with synergy. I find that it's the same relationship with amp and speaker, just because another amp is more expensive does not mean it will make that speaker sound better. I do have nice power cable not cause I can hear the difference but simply because I like the way it feels and look.
Its takes such a gentle mem to recommend Audioquest interconnect first and then your power cable/ conditioning or Regeneration. Thank you for being so honest Paul. Love you...
Between power, interconnect and digital (USB & Ethernet)... the biggest improvements for me were the digital cables, next was a power cable and power supply upgrade for the computer. My recommend is start by buying Oyaide Neo d+ Series Class B interconnects and USB cable (also their class B) and Audioquest Pearl or Forest (noticeably better, but going up to more expensive didn't deliver for me) Ethernet cables. All these cables are, by audiophile standards, dirt cheap. Then try if you like to find better cables for anywhere near the prices of these cables. Cheers.
Digital is digital. Unless a cable is so awful that its dropping information, one will be as good as another. And it takes hundreds of feet before information loss happens, and if any amount of information loss happens, your dac losses sync. I am ashamed to say my brother fell for the 'gold plated optical cable' nonsense.
@@wishusknight3009 Oh just stop with that. It's not true, try it out in reality sometime. Come to my house and I'll walk you through a series of cables and you will, if you know how to listen etc, hear an improvement with every step, from cat 5 to 6 to 7 to 7 audiophile company 1 and company 2, and I have 4 level USB, also blear differences. And they are not vastly expensive cables, so you tell me, at what level of cable does your it's only 1s & 0s become true? And why isn't it true?. 500 people have explained 50000 times this, go forth and learn and stop being close minded when you are surrounded by people who experienced exactly what you say is not true.
@@bc527c Are there anything more than 1s and 0s being transmitted? One can get tools to measure packet losses. If you have 100% transmission then the cable is sufficient. Anything else is placebo. If you have data packet loss, chances are it is a deeper problem than cables. For runs of less than 10 feet, it is irrelevant. And I bet someone could randomly in the next months swap out your cables with the shittiest cable possible, and unless you knew it, you would never tell the difference. You would only notice the difference once your brain knew it had been changed.
@@wishusknight3009 I 'm so sick of this stupid argument. NOISE NOISE NOISE ELECTRICAL NOISE GAINED WHILE TRAVELING. Stop bugging me with your uninformed crap. I used to believe just like you do, but I experienced something vary different, so I learned, I don't give a spit if you bother to expand your understanding of the world, but leave me out of your darkness.
@@bc527c it is true. Check any real business server that actually depends on everything being extra reliable to deal with massive amounts of data and you wont find any stupid "audiophile" ethernet cable. It doesnt make any sense. It's like saying that a picture you download from the Internet can have better or worse colours because of cat5 cable.
A 700 watt amp is gonna draw maybe 6 amps. #16 wire is good for about 12 amps,so # 18 gauge would be more than adequate. #12 is good for about 30 amps free air, that should power about a 2500 watt amp. Ask a qualified electrician about power distribution, I re-tired after about 45 yrs. Used ohm's law more than I can remember.
@A. Melbs Can u be more specific? DC, direct current used in car, AC alternating current used in home. Also cars are 12 volts, home is 120/240 volts.watts are watts. 1200watts at 120v is 10 amps. 1200watts at 12v is 100 amps. AC or DC.
I love you Paul, honesty about the power cables… yes they’re thrown as a courtesy/ basic power lead. The interconnects do make a huge difference for all your sources from the amplifier… Audioquest do a great job and that’s what they as a company are about… for me as a rule of thumb I spend typically about 5-10% the cost of my system on cable sometimes a little more plus in some circumstances I’d prefer a second hand interconnects & Speaker cable as it’s cheaper than full retail and has that already burn in that’s so needed. It’s all personal choice but that’s the route I go down. Take care and enjoy the music folks because that’s what it’s all about ✌️ ❤️ 🎶
do you need the high end power cable if you have a power plant? Why don't you offer the option of regular, good or great cables with the units you sell?
@@1leisure1 If you can't hear any difference that's fine. But, what should it matter if A. others actually can (we don't all hear exactly the same) or B. it is only placebo for them, but they are happy. If there's another scenario please enlighten me, but I feel either situation doesn't give you the right to deride others thoughts and opinions. One thing I learnt in early high school...when somebody starts attacking/impuging the speaker, they've got next to nothing in terms of an argument. So, they only resort to no discussion, just attack. And....guess what? Argument already lost!!! 👀 Thank you. 😊
I put several thousand pounds into mains cables and couldn't tell a difference from ANY of them, including all manor of custom kit built with top of the range Furutech, pure silver, high end fuses etc. I put in black star interconnects which made a huge difference to the sound. These were up against custom high purity silver, highest quality copper etc. On the speaker cables having used all sorts, I ended up with using some custom made ZAVFINO 1877PHONO speaker cabling. BIG difference. So my advice is forget the power cables, do these as the very last thing. A high end rack also made a massive difference to sound (particularly for me any my Lampizator / ARC set up). I'm yet to hear any decent difference with power cables, certainly isn't worth the money. Look for Black Star as a cable it'll blow your mind. By the way my speakers are £20000 Focal Utopia's that are massively resolving with a £13000 Dac so I have the kit to prove this! By the way you should mention room treatment! Few people starting out know anything about it.
Because u are 100% correct. The power cable get ac from the wall to equipment. 120, or 220v at 50 or 60 cycles, One constant voltage one constant freq., no audio signal. Power cables are snake oil to the MAX!
I recommend everything from the wall outlet to the speaker cables is Synergistic Research , there products change the sound instantly, although their stuff is ultra high-end so maybe not
Dave G yeah I was drunk when I text that,but I’m right about synergistic research, all they do is system tuning from power to room treatments they the best hands down, as for preference I’m for the power side of system tuning first, I recently upgraded my wall outlet, power cord and conditioner, I can hardly believe it’s mine, it was like hearing it for the first time, and my system is not expensive audiophile grade components, so it doesn’t have be expensive to sound expensive
If the power cable from the wall socket to the hifi component is up to the job in terms of power supply and safety, then why should it be any different and way more expensive than the 12 metres of copper power wires that run from the distribution point in the house to that wall outlet?
@@Projacked1 most technical arguments are been given by people with a very selective and limited brain... most of them trained cucks dont even realise different materials have different sonic properties or think that digital isnt analog.... fucking retarded and limited thinking..... just educated by school thinkin they can engineer everything!!! sad faces
@@zengerz "I'm so intelligent. Unlike those CUCKS with selective and limited brains, I get all my info on audio from salesmen and talking heads in the pocket of the audiophile industry." Lmao listen to yourself.
@@Ash-lt2ty nice conclusion you got there! I see ZERO technical stuff in there; great to know what you are made of; just empty shitty opinions where you laugh you ass off about; the epitome of being emptyheaded
👌👌👍👍👋👋 once again excellent advice Paul these videos are so important because there are coming from a living legend you not many founders of a company do any kind of videos let alone just about daily you know so many people that started this Hi-Fi industry it's just amazing anyways keep up the great work I watch everyday
Also it would be good to know for which components do the power cables make the most difference? In general, I'm sure there are exceptions... So speakers and amps first while dacs & preamps later? what about phono? I'm thinking low end chords for the rest of components but high end ones for 1 or 2 more important ones
dac' s and or transports are the most important need silver on copper like double plated coaxial cable reduces wait time in nanoseconds on the clock, and go with silver plaited shielded foam turntable to preamp/amp
More important to have your system tested out with whatever you wanna buy so as to ensure it works for the buyer. Demos at the store with their system is not the best way to go.
Power cables - unless they are woefully undersized (like trying to pull 1500 watts thru a 20ga cable) - cannot make a difference because you are limited by what’s in the wall. Shielding won’t help, because you have that whole run from the wall plate back to the utility company’s step-down transformer (sometimes referred to as a “Pole Pig”) to pick up EMI. Use a decent quality power cord with a large enough wire size in it, and that’s the best you can do in this area. In order to get good power supply performance, you need to buy power amps with a good power supply to begin with. What you can do to help keep the noise out is run the power cable through a choke - however, you’re power supply in the amp should already have that inside the box. For audio cables, the relevant specifications will vary depending on if they are carrying power (I.e, speaker cables) or just voltage (line level). For speaker cables, you want both low resistance (so make sure it’s got a large enough copper conductor in it) and low capacitance (so you don’t lose definition in the highs). Don’t coil any excess cable length either, you will end up making an inductor. For line-level interconnects that are driving a high impedance (or a really, really high impedance in the case of an opamp, mosfet, or tube grid) load, the resistance of the cable is of less importance, because there’s hardly any current flowing. Capacitance still matters, though. For digital, there’s no reason to spend extra money on fancy cables: at the receiving end, the bitstream goes thru various registers and RAM buffers, and either you got the data or you didn’t. So, any reasonable quality cable is just as good as any other. What defines a bad digital cable is either a) it doesn’t work reliably and/or b) it physically falls apart. P.s. - EMI shielding on fiber-optic cables is pointless, because fiber-optics aren’t electrical devices, they’re optical devices. What you need to keep out is stray light; which is quite easily accomplished by the black plastic jacket around the fiber.
Given that what one is looking at is a subtle and subjective effect, and you are not doing a rigorous double-blinded study; when well-tested physics and engineering principles (upon which the entirety of the rest of your system is built, I might add) state that a thing should be impossible; the logical conclusion is that the overwhelming probability is that you are looking at the placebo effect. Do not underestimate it’s power, however - human brains are funny things: if you expect an effect, you WILL experience it; even if nobody else in the room is. What you are experiencing when you listen to music is not the electrical waveforms going down the wire, but rather the neural responses of your brain to a signal that has been transformed from the electrical domain to the domain of air pressure; then transformed into frequency domain thru a mechanical process (the hairs on your Coachella each resonate at a different frequency); picked up by neurons in the ear and transcoded into neural firing impulses; then routed thru multiple layers of neural processing to extract the characteristics we consider music (pitch, texture, rhythm, harmony, etc). This last stage is heavily influenced by expectation; this is born out by audio illusion experiments where a sound is perceived differently depending on what the experimenter asked the subject if they heard. So, if you expect good results from a decent but not overpriced cable, and you feel that you’re getting them, then you ARE... and of course the inverse applies also: if you expect good results from an otherwise decent but grossly overpriced cable, well, yes - in your brain, you are experiencing the subjective neural response of music played well; regardless of the effect it has on your wallet. However, I will note that expecting good results from a poor quality or inappropriately applied cable will not overcome the objective lack of performance experienced in such a situation, as the placebo effect is only so strong. Expecting chocolate cake, and believing that you are getting it won’t overcome a blast of pepper spray to the face. P.s. Don’t take my word for it, go do some research - it’s quite remarkable how fluid and mutable our experience of the world is. An expression I’ve heard used is that our brains “hallucinate reality” from the fragmented and fleeting scraps of sensory input that we have.
@@sgals3395 And again, Please show us The academic and professional electrical engineering associations of Garth Powell? I can find nothing other than a product marketing guy at Furman and his present position at Audioquest. And as very typical of the charlatan electrical engineers that infect the consumer audio industry, he has a negative opinion of accredited electrical engineers. Fortunately for the benefit of mankind, electronics companies outside the foo foo audiophile market still do require appropriate credentials to practice electrical engineering.
@@sgals3395 Why would one ask an obvious charlatan an honest question? And yet more insults from you. Since you love to pull your defenses from the internet, read the link below. It describes you quite well. And as far as being a coward goes, I use my real name here and that means you can trace me down to my home address these days. How about you? Seems to me the coward is the one throwing out pointless insults and hides behind an internet moniker. ethanwiner.com/forums.htm
@@sgals3395 Is that the best you can dig up on me? I am not a licensed electrician. I don't practice commercial and residential wiring on a daily basis. So like most professionals, when I am not sure I consult with other experts in their respective fields .
@@sgals3395 No, read it again, I never orchestrated the move of a 160kw 3phase UPS system before. And like they teach in an engineering curriculum, you do your research first before blasting into a project especially where deadly forces are involved. Like battery cabinets that supply 540v at 400 amps. Yes, I do understand batteries, the fact that they can supply full bolted fault current for quite a long time as far as fire and life safety is concerned. That they can self-recharge after being measured "dead" due to dielectric absorption. Furthermore I guess you are now acknowledging that I do work in technical centers where such sizable UPS systems are used. Now that's not exactly proof that I have been in a recording studio by your standards but we are getting closer to the fact that I am not an idiot to be charged with a project of that scale. Keep going, we'll get there.
Oh, and by the way, standard household cable within your walls, is around $1.50 per metre...so if you spend any more than that on snake oil power cables, you need your head examined...
I’ve got good interconnects and speaker cable in line with the cost of my system. I decided to try power cables, so got the wireworld matrix power strip and a wireworld stratus 7 power cable. At first I didn’t notice a difference but then after a few hours of burn in, I noticed the imaging and sound stage open up, I could hear the instruments and voices in different locations for the first time
wishus knight I hadn’t made any changes to my system for months and had been listening to it daily, so I knew the sound very well. After the introduction of the power cables, there was noticeable difference which I picked up. You may think it is placebo, but there was a noticeable difference. It may be due to better shielding over a belkin power strip or another reason.
@@shahidyt Interference is a possibility. But this would be manifest in other anomalies, and is often the symptom of a more fundamental issue. The other difference is sometimes a touch less vdroop with thicker cable, or better power factor if a component has any filtering. With my system I use a full blown isolation transformer (ac-dc-ac) simply because I do have rather nasty power where I am. And this gives me a clean sine wave and perfect 120 volts output. I have never noticed any difference in cables between that and my equipment, and am generally content with anything lying around. This is even proven with very precise measuring equipment. In my shop I have several compressors from refrigeration units and other electronic equipment running which can have an abnormal effect on my equipment. Such as popping and cracking when something powers up. Or my DAC crashing from a power drop when the walkin kicks in. Cabling from the wall to my amp will not make any difference at all. Even if I didn't have any of that equipment. if cabling between the wall and equipment makes a striking difference, that is probably a sign of something more fundamental which needs addressing. Consider an isolation unit. Ones designed for lab use, and not audio equipment are generally cheaper and more robust, as they don't contain any snake oil and fancy packaging. And are often cheaper than expensive copper cables!
There are quite a few diy/how to vids and/or directions online about how to build both high quality interconnects and pwr cables. Just make sure to do your research beforehand and know what your getting into, as different designs and materials with give you different results.
low resistance speaker cables with proper plugs and shielded rca cables, thats the only ones i would agree on because i noticed a difference myself: - having too thin cables, low end wasnt kicking properly, muddy. -bare copper wires that corroded or (gold)plated plugs that had bad contact resistance took away my highs and distorted them. -unshielded rca cables pick up every shit in here, having a phone nearby wasnt possible. especially no power cables.
John sweda ... I am not a naysayer but cryno was used to improve electrical conductivity etc BUT it’s meant to work as long as the temp is kept that low. Using low temp to temper metals is not proven to help electrical conductivity (thermal conductivity yes) but yes it does harden the metal when it’s back to room temp. But there are some scientific paper on cryno treatment of metals during its manufacturing process that may help in improving electrical conductivity. That is in the manufacturing process when the metal is rolled out. But some of the metals are more ‘exotic’. So it’s kinda ‘dubious’ if cryno works on simple copper/silver coated cables ... esp when it’s done after the cable’s manufacturing. 😬
There's so much snake oil in audio. I don't understand how putting a 6' of a "magic" power cable at then end of what is probably well over 100' of romex cable snaking around your home can possibly make any difference.
Just my 2 cents, but I would avoid the inexpensive lines of Audioquest cables. I think it’s really great that they are genuinely trying to make good cables at entry level prices, but I think they’re overreaching a bit in their design or something, I just don’t think they figured it out yet. I bought a bunch of Golden Gate cables and they sounded so weird to me, very forward in the upper mids/highs, and just no matter where I put then in my chain they made things sound really weird, even with different speakers. Could just be my system though. My cheaper monster cables with rolled-off highs sounded much more neutral and tolerable by comparison, although with less detail and dynamics. I eventually scored a used pair of Audioquest Jaguars though and they’re great. I think you just have to spend a few hundred with Audioquest to get to the stuff worth using. For what it’s worth...
Canare star quad with some reasonable connectors is my goto for interconnects and a power cable big enough to easily satisfy the device's appetite. Courtesy cables are never meant to be used long term, just for a basic system aliveness test.
A successful double blind cable test would prove once and for all that cables make a difference..... but a failed test would hurt business, so I'm guessing that is something we'll never see.
I would agree except with Audioquest Toslink cables. I was using diamond cables for some of my gear that I couldn't use coaxial with but the Lifatec glass optical cables I got recently blew me away for about half the price of the Audioquest diamonds
I don't agree. Power cables are the single most important cables in audio. They make the biggest difference in general. But it is also dependent on the system. Get both that you make yourself as a DIY projecy, then there is enough money to cover that. Cables in audio cost way too much, especially the ones that make the biggest difference. Also try using a 50cm and 200cm power cables to see what you prefer. Some people think that that 50cm cable is like 2x better, some other people prefer the 200cm version that is more mellow and pleasant.
This is what I don’t get about “snake oilers”! Ones that shout out cables are snake oil. Do they own measuring equipment and employ them on every component they own? Just buy silver!
Easy answer when I get asked this: power cable for the amp, interconnect between amp and pre. For an AVR, power cable and best interconnect cable between primary music source (analog or digital). Move on from there.
Build your own cables. Seriously, get a soldering iron and 100 bucks worth of parts and you will have cables that could rival pretty much anything out there on the market.
@@humanbass, changing my interconnects was the most significant difference, as Paul said. Agreed on bigger gauge, always... Running 1mm versus 0,8 mm interlinks was a very obvious change to my ears. Same design, same materials. Try a bigger gauge ground wire unbalanced.
Paul McGowan and PS Audio should be embarrassed and ashamed about his comment regarding their own companies stock power cables! At their prices, you'd think you might get something serviceable! Beyond his contradiction...'get the interconnects first but, watch out for our cheap power supply... What is the answer to the question?!
Forget about power & audio cables - room dehumidifier makes a huge difference in sound dissipation when humidity in a room is just about right. Secondly, a hamster on a wheel also helps controlling a bass particularly from those floor-streamed membrane subs. Hamster's cage should preferably be made of a japanese cherry wood but bamboo licked by panda should just do a trick. And absolutely "a must", above anything else are field cable elevators!!! They make more difference in sound reproduction than any other component/part in your system. Besides, anyone who sees them will know straight away that you are serious audiophile. Hope this helps ;)
@PS Audio: Paul, take a good look at yourself and your life. Enough about this bullshit about high priced cables. Deep down you know the answer. You are just afraid to scientifically prove it to yourself. Do some good blind testing and then figure out what you want to leave behind: good info and honesty, or 'personal' opinions shaped by the money you make selling expensive cables and gear..... You are an engineer. You know AC, frequency ranges, noise,etc. You know capacitance/inductance/resistance per feet. You know the formulas for LPF, HPF. You know audio freq. ranges....You do know that human senses (seeing, hearing) are limited. You do know that a 0.0001% change in a signal (be it audio or light, be it noise, freq shift, phase shift, amplitude or what not) is not perceptible by any human being. Do the math, do some blind tests and take a good look at what you do here and what you try to convince people of and why you do it.... (No, I'm not talking about crap cables vs ok honest cables, not about 5$ vs $20$ cables. You know what I talk about)...Good luck in your life...There is a price to pay for everything...eventually..
Audioquest makes great cables, might I suggest to start, Audioquest CV4 or Cv8, if no biwiring. For interconnects, King Cobras and for Power Cables Nrg-4 or Nrg-2, which are older and have been replaced. You can find everything listed at Music Direct for reasonable prices and goodluck. Dont be afraid of demo or openbox from them, which will save you big time.
@Swinde As far as amps, upgrading caps and resistors in certain areas cause better sonic results. As far as speakers go, upgrading to better parts also such as better caps, resistors, inductors, and evening silver coated wire can make audible sonic differences. Wether you’d like them or not is a different story. I personally do.
Usually when a speaker or amplifier gets to a certain point they already come with nicer wiring in them. Not all of them but there are plenty of manufactures that put money into higher end wiring. I am not saying it is necessarily better or that I think cables make a big difference but it is done in the industry.
@@NickP333 I had my tube amp upgraded by Charles van Oosterum ( CED of Kharma International; just google!) He replaced all wiring by his own slver/ gold cables. Man, what a difference !
It's logical why better interconnect cables (to a limit, not $2000 of snake oil cables) can better transfer the signal, but where is the logic in adding 6 feet of copper (snake oil cable) to the 60 feet of copper lumex in the wall feeding it (AC travels back and forth though the entire power delivery wires)? The size of the cable must suit the power requirement of the amp, but what can be gained by adding 6 feet of 12 AWG power cord, when the circuit has many feet of 14 AWG in the wall? There might be some benefit from a shielded power cable, but only to stop any noise in the last 6 feet. The shield will do nothing to stop the noise getting in before the cable (miles of wire to the power station) and won't even let any of that noise leak out. Where is the science, because it makes no sense to buy an expensive "magical" power cord. Put that money to a better amp, preamp, DAC, source, speakers....where a significant (real) sound quality can be attained. The placebo effect seems to really affect audiophiles.
I have done all the upgraded power/Audio/cables , One at a time i should review my opion on them ,But its a doubled edge sword but i noticed the biggest difference in my Reference system with the actual speaker cable all audioquest, all Low-mid level and Speaker cable is DYI that I'm thinking about doing a video on X2 +BFA 300
I had the power company come replace my transformer and wires before I ripped out my electrical wiring and replaced it all with high quality wire. Next spring, I'm working on rewiring from the transformer back to the power station. Should sound OK then.
Heh, heh, heh,....... So what's wrong with Kimber or whatever Companies using Cardas wire? (Just messing with you Paul: AQ probably starts a little lower in price !)
Guys, come on.... You all must experiment with cable, and especially with power cords. Know this : What are we listen in fact in our hifi or highend system ? The answer is very simple : CURRENT So the more quality of current exist into our system, the more clear sound we have. In my opinion, based on my experiments, first thing is to have as good as possible POWER CORD. My cheapest power cord from my system is more expensive then my floorstand speakers. No need to invest huge amount of money into equipment. Decent one are good enough. Then you must choose cable wisely and as much as expensive you can afford to get a nirvana sound. I listen at many friend of mine with money potential very expensive systems, but linked with mediocre cable and the sound is good but not as good as it should be. Second, after the power cords, are INTERCONNECTS. Good ones do make big difference. The speaker cable and after that, if you not very satisfy with the sound you get, you can think to upgrade equipment. This is my opinion based on my experiments.
@@r423sdex I done made me some vibranium interconnects. Big mistake. It made my turntable go all wibbly wobbly. Knew I should have used that there unobtanium!
@@r423sdex silver is the best material for passing electrons it's 100% non-resistant platinum isn't. copper second goal third 14% more resistant than silver, then erodium maybe platinum after
Wait a moment? Does it mean, you are selling your stuff with bad power cables? Why? That makes no sense. It's like Ferrari or Porsche would soll their cars with bad tires! If you want your car to be fast and safe, buy better tires! And we can't sell you our sports car with better tires, because it would make the car more expensive. That's just stupid! It is what it is. A lot of voodoo in this business.
I must disagree with you when it comes to AC and interconnects. I think power cables makes a much bigger difference than interconnects so I say: Change the cables in this order: Speaker-cables , AC-cables and interconnets.
mains power cables don’t make any difference, in audio or in any other speciality for anyone believing otherwise, I can only conclude they lack the intuition and education to see otherwise I work with mains powered ultra sensitive instruments, that observe nano volt effects, and mains power cables have never made any difference, these instruments don’t have nothing extraordinary for regulation, everything off the shelf in fact, if you believe power cables makes a difference, you deserve to educate yourself on the matter; not that it has to be explained, earth is not flat, it’s as simple as that
@@r423sdex No, it cannot. Some audible phenomena cannot be measured. But they exist. Try to accept science is not developed far enough ( yet) to deal with very complicated effects of sound in the human brain. And that's what being an audiophile is all about.
What an arrogant opinion! You're just saying that hundreds of thousants of audiophiles are silly idiots because they DO hear differences between powercables? And don't play the placebo and blind test BS on me!
I have had a lot of audioquest cables and they are not worth your money, the new line from mythical creatures are very expensive and the changes in every step higher are just suptile. Plus the speaker kabels just put to much stress on your amp/speakers connectors, is you have monitors they wil be pulled of there stands. If you want high end cabling you go for Nordost! There in a whole nother league and well worth the money, starting from Heimdall 2 cables there the best ones I've owned.
@Mike Unsworth me 2 have had a lot of expensive cables but nothing beats nordost , huge soundstage, speed, clear highs , tight and deep bass .. well you know what i meen
I don't get the literally a power cable upgrade advice, one company sells a power cable that's $15,000! you see when the power comes through the household wiring which goes through a transformer to a disconnect a breaker, 14 or 12g Romex to a outlet with lousy contacts no matter how good the brand of receptical and the lead from the outlet to the equipment is important! Yeah no lamp cord but a good quality stranded home Depot copper lead cable is better than the predeceasing conductors and connections... A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. And as far as the rest like $50,000 for (2) 8' runs of speaker wire...seriously that's ludicrous if someone buys that they deserve to be ripped off.! ahhh imo if you have quality cables few hundred dollars in wires Id think is more than sufficient, I personally don't believe this "you can hear a serious difference" the human hearing is only so good and if it is better I don't feel your not going to hear it. Dog Maby... if you want to bad enough you will, And speaker cable yeah like a welding cable with super fine strands prob work great where the current flows around the perimeter of the conductor. It just a way for people to sell massively overpriced stuff to either wealthy or foolish people Just my opinion maby some day someone will prove or disprove it to me.
You are 100% correct. These high priced power cords are specific to the audiophile market. There is no other market which includes very high end electronics installations such as broadcast / mastering, military and even NASA. What does that tell you! The engineers who work in those facilities know less than some audio magazine reviewer??? Also research the owners or "engineers" in these audio cable companies. What accredited electronics credentials do they have. Traceable credentials that is, not just some unsubstantiated statement they worked in high end electronics. Let's see a bio or resume. You will hear all kinds of excuses for why the in-wall wiring doesn't matter but it's bunk! Any chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. And electrical power flows in a loop from source to device, back to source, which is your street utility transformer. Beyond that it is magnetically coupled to the utility. Some cord may contain ferrite filters which is good in some cases, but those can also be bought cheap online.
@@westelaudio943 Well he or anyone else will run into a big problem with that. It's called a "listed product" and building inspectors highly enforce that. That's why you don't see audiophile grade electrical building products like circuit breakers and panels. Even these AC outlets that are re-plated and/or cryo treated are illegal unless they are run back through a registered safety agency after the modification and in that case the last modification to the product will be on file. What some of these companies do is over-plate or otherwise modify OEM electrical parts and claim they are UL or otherwise listed because they still bear the OEM listing. That's fraud and illegal! Stupid government intervention? Not at all. Does the new "audio grade" plating adhere properly to the OEM plating or surface metal? Only a qualified chemist or metallurgist will know that. Or will it flake off and possibly cause a short or lethal ground current leakage. Will the cryo treating weaken the plastic to the point where it breaks under normal plug insertion force and expose the user to energized terminals or an arc flash? Accredited electrical engineers at the traditional electrical product companies design for these issues and test though third party agencies to get certification. These buffoons that buy the OEM product and add their secret sauce are not qualified to consider these problems.
@@killbasa2000 100% false I purchased Furutech gold plated terminal ends, Furutech FP-S022N for my pre-amplifier, and Furutech FP-S032N for my amplifier, i did blind tests with my friends and family and they all noticed the difference, Much to my fathers bemusement as he cant understand why. (hes a total non believer like you) The biggest change i noticed was a very punchy base output, it also bathed the sound with a slightly velvety overtone almost as if it was slightly tubey in sound signature. vocals are buttery smooth but yet still crisp, no detail has been lost, if anything i think I've gained a touch of clarity in the upper end. perhaps there are reasons you may not have noticed the difference? maybe your interconnects are not up to presenting the change, maybe its the speaker cable, or perhaps your system is not revealing enough? I'm not sure! All I can say is that within my system, all be it pretty modest by some of the standards here is that there was a very noticeable difference
@@ewanderric4679 Hi Ewan, I never said speaker or interconnect cables doesn't matter, they do. I'm pretty sure they make sound better, especially if you have longer runs. However POWER CABLES doesn't make any difference any channel supporting that including this one are worthless.
I fell in love with Audio Quest cables. I used to be a non believer. Until I rolled the dice and paid the price. I was speechless and shocked. AQ really knows their stuff. Their cheap cables aren't that great though.
@@C--A Maybe my old cables were just that bad. But when I upgraded. I truly noticed a difference. Only when all my cables were upgraded. You shield out all the outside interference and space your cables apart from each other. So they aren't touching each other and keep them off the floor. It does help and make a difference. I won't spend more on a cable then the cheapest component in my system. That's my rule. I will say someone who has purchased many Audioquest cables. Their cheapest entry-level cables are no different than any other cheap cable. But once you start to climb up. The next line is better than the last and so on. Even though it's not much. This is from many hours of critical listening. With the same songs testing each cable. My ears are actually hearing a difference. Cables have the power to color the sound. So does interference and cable resistance. I understand snakeoil. But I still pay attention. If I try something and it's not backed up by what it claims it does. It's going back. I'm telling the truth.
no need for comment wars when a lot of those trained cucks are trained to not look further... that is why they are educated in the new church of nowadays. just fuck those brainwahed cucks with natural facts. and debunk the globe in the meantime; proving them retard engineers
Spending money on high end over priced power cables is like saying changing the color of your car makes it go faster! Its money out of your pocket and into the cable makers pocket as they laugh all the way to the bank !
@ Mr Dash....what do you consider to be high end and overpriced? That would be rather subjective and makes me think you'd be happy to spend on high end cables that aren't so called 'overpriced'? Can you also confirm please what cables fall into the high end and not overpriced category please? Thank you.
My 2.5 Cents Take.. : Just listen to the music...................... and enjoy it.. Who the cares about cables ..... If you have money either you spend it or save it ... If your cables are designed in USA and assembled in China.. 🤣🤣🤣 LMAO
$4,400 IEC cable? Shame on you and your company. That's more than the cost of a very capable complete Hifi system. You are the P.T. Barnum of audio. The epitome of "disposable" income.
I’m sick of this guy using these videos to boost sales if you want to upgrade your system don’t buy PS audio,forget Audioquest there a joke with enormous product line,go Kimber Kable if your serious about quality sound
You just boosted Kimber Kable :-)) Your comment is stupid and rude; Paul does not sell AQ. He has good experience with those cables ( so have I); why should'nt he pass that through? And sure: Kimber is OK. But why the idiot agression in your comment? Get help man.....
I dont want to save my money.I bought four power cords and im very happy how they improved the sound. Of course if someone have cheapest audio system like you do, there's not gonna be big of a difference.
And one more thing: Do you care to make a video to explain how come your power stations or whatever they are called and that must cost a fortune can do what the power supplies in your other EXPENSIVE HI FI products can't? On one side we have I assume a AC-DC-AC converter and on the other side just an AC-DC converter.... One of the two is crap if you need both for hi-fi.... Right? Do your AC-DC converters in your hi-fi equipments are not able to deliver the DC specified? In any power regime and frequency ranges needed for audio systems? Do they have AUDIBLE noise in the AF range???? LOOLLLL
Most people wouldn’t through them away if you gave them an adequate cable, and please let’s not pretend your not making very high profits,I used to sell this stuff.
“Audio cables make more of a sonic difference than power cables” Well that’s not difficult considering power cables make literally no difference whatsoever because of these things called power supplies, and they work pretty well.
3:36 ish you arrogantly admit the power connect cables that come with your multiple thousand dollar amps and equipment are crap in your opinion! Are you serious? I honestly don't know what to say! Holy shit you got a set of balls sir!!!
He is honest. What is the point of shipping the amp with cables that cost $100,- when people that build a system with that gear throw them away because they want to have the best? He didn't say they are bad, but the subject of this video is upgrading the cables, in that context he advises to change the oem powercables of the Stellar for something better.
Don't do either. Learn how the PSU works in your amplifier and then get mad at snake oil salesmen. Cables make no difference to sound. Zero difference. Audioquest is a scam.
Absolute nonsense. Simply compare the conductivity of silver compared to copper. Some types of copper MEASURE better than others. This affects capacitance/reactance/impedance, and therefore the sound. Speakers with phase angles and impedance variations benefit more from this.
I used to think that too (cables are irrelevant). But you play pink or white noise through different cables to your left and right and you will, in fact hear a difference.
My comment from above. I have only ever used Audioquest cables and agree with Paul.I also,after many years,have found that the best material to use for a cable is copper.Anything with silver will give you an over revealing sound which can become sibilant.Copper has magic qualities,it warms the sound as well as letting through all the music and none of the electronics.I used to say to the guys at the audio outlets that somebody must be frying a steak in the recording studio,to me that is what over revealing cables sound like...somebody frying steak.Put on the copper and the chef leaves the room. Please have you ears tested at your earliest opportunity.
Audio quest cables are just snake oils-- ask any real engineer about it--- such snake oils have no effect on low quality gears, while hi-fi audio gears do not need them at all. The best effective cables could be blue jeans and KabelDirct, talking from my own experience.
Firstly, I am a fan of the channel and of the company in general. That being said, I have a question that may have a trivial answer that I'm just not seeing, but.....Did I really just hear you say "The ones that we give you?.......meh"?
If I understand your question correctly you're asking why I said "meh" in reference to the stock power cables we ship with each unit? They are what we refer to as courtesy cables. They work, they get the unit up and running, but they are not what we would recommend over the long term. We don't ship our products with expensive aftermarket cables because it would raise the price of the unit by rather a lot. More important, we have come to learn over the years that our customers have their favorite power cords already. When they buy a new piece of gear it's usually as a swap upgrade. They upgrade to our product but want to use the same power cord they already invested in. If we include our choice in cables and they don't want to use them, they feel cheated that they paid extra for the entire package. It's kind of a no win situation. I am not happy with the way we do it, but haven't found a better alternative.
@@Paulmcgowanpsaudio Also, the aluminum cone woofer you chose for the new tower revision, I would really be surprised if you change it, that's a great selection. The best woofer I ever heard was a high-watt, fast aluminum cone. Really excited to see the final product, I watch every video you have about them :)
Wow ! That is reprehensible . How can you sell a product under the pretense that it is an upscale component far superior to the mass market components that the customer has previously purchased and then acknowledge that the power cable that is provided with the component is subpar ? If I was fortunate enough to be able to purchase a 1000 horsepower Ferrari supercar , I would be more than disappointed to learn tht I would have to spend an additional $ 100,000 on a transmission to utilize the car to it's full potential . I can't speak for everybody , but if you are marketing your product as a best in the industry candidate , and you are trying to sell electrical quality and regenerative technology , why would you include subpar electrical cables as standard equipment on your best components ? If I was selling 5k monoblocks I can assure that the IEC cables that were shipped with the units were state of the art . The preconcieved notion that if you have 5k to spend on my monoblocks yet I will force you to spend several thousands more to actually hear any benefits speaks for itself . If I have a product that is in fact superior to what is available , I will provide that product at a reasonable cost . If I market this product with considerations , ( Yes , the IEC CORD was actually designed for a toaster , and therefore cost effective ) I would be considered a thief . Hi end is a scam . Get yourself the best components you can actually enjoy . These scumbags that are brainwashing you into spending your hard earned money are not your friends . Yes , I know . They will be attacking me immediately . I am the bad guy . The fact of the matter is ,I am doing my best to save you many thousands of dollars . There has been virtually zero significant advances in quality audio reproduction in decades . Go ahead , you are free to spend 14k on a new , state of of the art music server . Yes , you can purchase a new DAC every 3 months . Some of them are actually exceptional . At the end of the day , I implore you all , if in fact you enjoy music . Enjoy your music and ignore the people who are selling you equipment that will soon be obsolete . At the end of the day , It is the content of the musicians , not the engineers that will be remembered .
I have only ever used Audioquest cables and agree with Paul.I also,after many years,have found that the best material to use for a cable is copper.Anything with silver will give you an over revealing sound which can become sibilant.Copper has magic qualities,it warms the sound as well as letting through all the music and none of the electronics.I used to say to the guys at the audio outlets that somebody must be frying a steak in the recording studio,to me that is what over revealing cables sound like...somebody frying steak.Put on the copper and the chef leaves the room.
I use PS audio cables on my printer, superior color rendering.... Thinking about upgrading my toaster next, hoping for more golden browns...
My wife has one on her iron, the steam is more directional. And I can hear the difference from the other room
Pre owned cables are your best bet for the money.
Yes, they have been defrosting and burned in well.😂
@@r423sdex True. And well build ( silver) cables are a longtime investment; they don't age.
Paul B. Especially the ones that where forged by elves in the moonlight.
I will only use Audioquest and have for almost 30 years now.
I love it when Paul says have fun, because that’s what it’s all about. A life without music live or recorded is something I can’t even begin to imagine!!
Because audio and power cables make such a big difference, I am constantly swapping out my cables depending on my mood. When I want more treble, I use certain cables. More bass? I switch cables again. More resolution? I switch cables.
Since my pre-amp does not have tone controls, I have stacks and stacks of cables... this is now how I EQ my system. Constant cable changes. Its a lot easier doing this than say, turning a knob for bass or treble adjustment.
you know whats up!!
each material has its own frequency thus influencing the sound :)
and the word became flesh!
Another 'link' in the audio chain.. albeit, not a 'day and night' one.
As an electrician I learned, a cable's a cable, period. ... however,
..problem is, _I have heard differences with different power cables_ and I can't really explain why is it so!
Yes, logic and theory as well as measurements tell me that this is not possible.
And yet, there was a difference there which I did not imagine.
There's something at work there that we cannot put our finger on..
Blue Jeans cables are also very nicely made and very low in capacitance without costing a fortune, but if you can afford em, AQ makes some very nice cables too.
every link of the chain is equally important. start where you can or want. still not convinced about power cables
Why stop with the power cord? Should I replace the wires in the wall, too? What about the wires out to the telephone pole and on to the power plant?
Why do folks like you feel the need to put down others with facetious comments just because some of us choose to spend our money on things that we feel improves the sound of our system? Surely folks such as you have more important issues address in your quest to put the world to rights! And please don't respond with a physics lesson, even pedants such as you must know that science is a method for measuring and understanding the world, not placing limits on what exists and is possible.
@@mgsee He wasn't necessarily being facetious. Do you have an answer to JG's questions, cause I'd like to know.
@@dap777754 Given the impracticality of the suggestion, how could it not be taken as anything but a joke? In any case I would have expected someone with even a passing interest in hi-fi to have known that his suggestion would not be necessary, because all he would have to do is get a decent power conditioner or replace his equipment with battery-powered devices.
Nothing like watching an Audioquest commercial...
On my older system the speaker cables made a huge different it was like pulling a veil off them but on my current it didn't matter nearly as much. What I find when it comes to interconnect and speaker cable is that more expensive does not mean better in some system the cheaper was better and the other the expensive ones. So what that tells me is it has to do with synergy. I find that it's the same relationship with amp and speaker, just because another amp is more expensive does not mean it will make that speaker sound better.
I do have nice power cable not cause I can hear the difference but simply because I like the way it feels and look.
Its takes such a gentle mem to recommend Audioquest interconnect first and then your power cable/ conditioning or Regeneration. Thank you for being so honest Paul. Love you...
it's all part of his selling game! and it sounds like he's mugged you into it! Don't be.
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Between power, interconnect and digital (USB & Ethernet)... the biggest improvements for me were the digital cables, next was a power cable and power supply upgrade for the computer. My recommend is start by buying Oyaide Neo d+ Series Class B interconnects and USB cable (also their class B) and Audioquest Pearl or Forest (noticeably better, but going up to more expensive didn't deliver for me) Ethernet cables. All these cables are, by audiophile standards, dirt cheap. Then try if you like to find better cables for anywhere near the prices of these cables. Cheers.
Digital is digital. Unless a cable is so awful that its dropping information, one will be as good as another. And it takes hundreds of feet before information loss happens, and if any amount of information loss happens, your dac losses sync. I am ashamed to say my brother fell for the 'gold plated optical cable' nonsense.
@@wishusknight3009 Oh just stop with that. It's not true, try it out in reality sometime. Come to my house and I'll walk you through a series of cables and you will, if you know how to listen etc, hear an improvement with every step, from cat 5 to 6 to 7 to 7 audiophile company 1 and company 2, and I have 4 level USB, also blear differences. And they are not vastly expensive cables, so you tell me, at what level of cable does your it's only 1s & 0s become true? And why isn't it true?. 500 people have explained 50000 times this, go forth and learn and stop being close minded when you are surrounded by people who experienced exactly what you say is not true.
@@bc527c Are there anything more than 1s and 0s being transmitted? One can get tools to measure packet losses. If you have 100% transmission then the cable is sufficient. Anything else is placebo.
If you have data packet loss, chances are it is a deeper problem than cables. For runs of less than 10 feet, it is irrelevant. And I bet someone could randomly in the next months swap out your cables with the shittiest cable possible, and unless you knew it, you would never tell the difference. You would only notice the difference once your brain knew it had been changed.
@@wishusknight3009 I 'm so sick of this stupid argument. NOISE NOISE NOISE ELECTRICAL NOISE GAINED WHILE TRAVELING. Stop bugging me with your uninformed crap. I used to believe just like you do, but I experienced something vary different, so I learned, I don't give a spit if you bother to expand your understanding of the world, but leave me out of your darkness.
@@bc527c it is true. Check any real business server that actually depends on everything being extra reliable to deal with massive amounts of data and you wont find any stupid "audiophile" ethernet cable. It doesnt make any sense. It's like saying that a picture you download from the Internet can have better or worse colours because of cat5 cable.
A 700 watt amp is gonna draw maybe 6 amps. #16 wire is good for about 12 amps,so # 18 gauge would be more than adequate. #12 is good for about 30 amps free air, that should power about a 2500 watt amp. Ask a qualified electrician about power distribution, I re-tired after about 45 yrs. Used ohm's law more than I can remember.
Yup. 14 gauge is fine for most .,
some class A. Or. AB amps
draw more power from the wall outlet than a class D. ., and still only need 14-16. Agreed
@A. Melbs Can u be more specific? DC, direct current used in car, AC alternating current used in home. Also cars are 12 volts, home is 120/240 volts.watts are watts. 1200watts at 120v is 10 amps. 1200watts at 12v is 100 amps. AC or DC.
Check your speaker cables have thick conductors and are therefore low resistance, forget the others.
I love you Paul, honesty about the power cables… yes they’re thrown as a courtesy/ basic power lead. The interconnects do make a huge difference for all your sources from the amplifier… Audioquest do a great job and that’s what they as a company are about… for me as a rule of thumb I spend typically about 5-10% the cost of my system on cable sometimes a little more plus in some circumstances I’d prefer a second hand interconnects & Speaker cable as it’s cheaper than full retail and has that already burn in that’s so needed. It’s all personal choice but that’s the route I go down. Take care and enjoy the music folks because that’s what it’s all about ✌️ ❤️ 🎶
Dude that thumbnail made me interested. Bring back the glass ct cable. That was bad click bait.
do you need the high end power cable if you have a power plant? Why don't you offer the option of regular, good or great cables with the units you sell?
Because cables aren't their focus
Right on.
Why would he need better cables if he is buying from PS
For me the wireworld stratus 7 power cables and wireworld matrix 2 power strip presented separation and imaging like I hadn’t experienced before
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It's truly amazing what the placebo effect will do for stereo imaging!
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Lee those who walk the walk might experience the placebo effect and those who are bystanders are just commentators or may be walking a different path
@@1leisure1 If you can't hear any difference that's fine. But, what should it matter if A. others actually can (we don't all hear exactly the same) or B. it is only placebo for them, but they are happy.
If there's another scenario please enlighten me, but I feel either situation doesn't give you the right to deride others thoughts and opinions.
One thing I learnt in early high school...when somebody starts attacking/impuging the speaker, they've got next to nothing in terms of an argument. So, they only resort to no discussion, just attack. And....guess what? Argument already lost!!! 👀
Thank you. 😊
I put several thousand pounds into mains cables and couldn't tell a difference from ANY of them, including all manor of custom kit built with top of the range Furutech, pure silver, high end fuses etc. I put in black star interconnects which made a huge difference to the sound. These were up against custom high purity silver, highest quality copper etc. On the speaker cables having used all sorts, I ended up with using some custom made ZAVFINO 1877PHONO speaker cabling. BIG difference. So my advice is forget the power cables, do these as the very last thing. A high end rack also made a massive difference to sound (particularly for me any my Lampizator / ARC set up). I'm yet to hear any decent difference with power cables, certainly isn't worth the money. Look for Black Star as a cable it'll blow your mind. By the way my speakers are £20000 Focal Utopia's that are massively resolving with a £13000 Dac so I have the kit to prove this!
By the way you should mention room treatment! Few people starting out know anything about it.
Please explain how a rack, high-end/low-end doesn't matter, could possibly affect sound. Appreciate it.
Because u are 100% correct. The power cable get ac from the wall to equipment. 120, or 220v at 50 or 60 cycles, One constant voltage one constant freq., no audio signal. Power cables are snake oil to the MAX!
I recommend everything from the wall outlet to the speaker cables is Synergistic Research , there products change the sound instantly, although their stuff is ultra high-end so maybe not
Please stop making me laugh. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dave G yeah I was drunk when I text that,but I’m right about synergistic research, all they do is system tuning from power to room treatments they the best hands down, as for preference I’m for the power side of system tuning first, I recently upgraded my wall outlet, power cord and conditioner, I can hardly believe it’s mine, it was like hearing it for the first time, and my system is not expensive audiophile grade components, so it doesn’t have be expensive to sound expensive
If the power cable from the wall socket to the hifi component is up to the job in terms of power supply and safety, then why should it be any different and way more expensive than the 12 metres of copper power wires that run from the distribution point in the house to that wall outlet?
I love the comments sections on videos about cables.
same here
yeah , especially the technical arguments vs listening experience haha
@@Projacked1
most technical arguments are been given by people with a very selective and limited brain...
most of them trained cucks dont even realise different materials have different sonic properties or think that digital isnt analog....
fucking retarded and limited thinking..... just educated by school thinkin they can engineer everything!!!
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@@zengerz "I'm so intelligent. Unlike those CUCKS with selective and limited brains, I get all my info on audio from salesmen and talking heads in the pocket of the audiophile industry."
Lmao listen to yourself.
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nice conclusion you got there!
I see ZERO technical stuff in there; great to know what you are made of; just empty shitty opinions where you laugh you ass off about; the epitome of being emptyheaded
👌👌👍👍👋👋 once again excellent advice Paul these videos are so important because there are coming from a living legend you not many founders of a company do any kind of videos let alone just about daily you know so many people that started this Hi-Fi industry it's just amazing anyways keep up the great work I watch everyday
Also it would be good to know for which components do the power cables make the most difference? In general, I'm sure there are exceptions...
So speakers and amps first while dacs & preamps later? what about phono?
I'm thinking low end chords for the rest of components but high end ones for 1 or 2 more important ones
dac' s and or transports are the most important need silver on copper like double plated coaxial cable reduces wait time in nanoseconds on the clock, and go with silver plaited shielded foam turntable to preamp/amp
@@johnsweda2999 please stop if won't be helpful
More important to have your system tested out with whatever you wanna buy so as to ensure it works for the buyer. Demos at the store with their system is not the best way to go.
Power cables - unless they are woefully undersized (like trying to pull 1500 watts thru a 20ga cable) - cannot make a difference because you are limited by what’s in the wall. Shielding won’t help, because you have that whole run from the wall plate back to the utility company’s step-down transformer (sometimes referred to as a “Pole Pig”) to pick up EMI. Use a decent quality power cord with a large enough wire size in it, and that’s the best you can do in this area. In order to get good power supply performance, you need to buy power amps with a good power supply to begin with. What you can do to help keep the noise out is run the power cable through a choke - however, you’re power supply in the amp should already have that inside the box.
For audio cables, the relevant specifications will vary depending on if they are carrying power (I.e, speaker cables) or just voltage (line level).
For speaker cables, you want both low resistance (so make sure it’s got a large enough copper conductor in it) and low capacitance (so you don’t lose definition in the highs). Don’t coil any excess cable length either, you will end up making an inductor.
For line-level interconnects that are driving a high impedance (or a really, really high impedance in the case of an opamp, mosfet, or tube grid) load, the resistance of the cable is of less importance, because there’s hardly any current flowing. Capacitance still matters, though.
For digital, there’s no reason to spend extra money on fancy cables: at the receiving end, the bitstream goes thru various registers and RAM buffers, and either you got the data or you didn’t. So, any reasonable quality cable is just as good as any other. What defines a bad digital cable is either a) it doesn’t work reliably and/or b) it physically falls apart.
P.s. - EMI shielding on fiber-optic cables is pointless, because fiber-optics aren’t electrical devices, they’re optical devices. What you need to keep out is stray light; which is quite easily accomplished by the black plastic jacket around the fiber.
Given that what one is looking at is a subtle and subjective effect, and you are not doing a rigorous double-blinded study; when well-tested physics and engineering principles (upon which the entirety of the rest of your system is built, I might add) state that a thing should be impossible; the logical conclusion is that the overwhelming probability is that you are looking at the placebo effect.
Do not underestimate it’s power, however - human brains are funny things: if you expect an effect, you WILL experience it; even if nobody else in the room is. What you are experiencing when you listen to music is not the electrical waveforms going down the wire, but rather the neural responses of your brain to a signal that has been transformed from the electrical domain to the domain of air pressure; then transformed into frequency domain thru a mechanical process (the hairs on your Coachella each resonate at a different frequency); picked up by neurons in the ear and transcoded into neural firing impulses; then routed thru multiple layers of neural processing to extract the characteristics we consider music (pitch, texture, rhythm, harmony, etc). This last stage is heavily influenced by expectation; this is born out by audio illusion experiments where a sound is perceived differently depending on what the experimenter asked the subject if they heard.
So, if you expect good results from a decent but not overpriced cable, and you feel that you’re getting them, then you ARE... and of course the inverse applies also: if you expect good results from an otherwise decent but grossly overpriced cable, well, yes - in your brain, you are experiencing the subjective neural response of music played well; regardless of the effect it has on your wallet.
However, I will note that expecting good results from a poor quality or inappropriately applied cable will not overcome the objective lack of performance experienced in such a situation, as the placebo effect is only so strong. Expecting chocolate cake, and believing that you are getting it won’t overcome a blast of pepper spray to the face.
P.s. Don’t take my word for it, go do some research - it’s quite remarkable how fluid and mutable our experience of the world is. An expression I’ve heard used is that our brains “hallucinate reality” from the fragmented and fleeting scraps of sensory input that we have.
@@sgals3395 And again, Please show us The academic and professional electrical engineering associations of Garth Powell? I can find nothing other than a product marketing guy at Furman and his present position at Audioquest. And as very typical of the charlatan electrical engineers that infect the consumer audio industry, he has a negative opinion of accredited electrical engineers. Fortunately for the benefit of mankind, electronics companies outside the foo foo audiophile market still do require appropriate credentials to practice electrical engineering.
@@sgals3395 Why would one ask an obvious charlatan an honest question? And yet more insults from you. Since you love to pull your defenses from the internet, read the link below. It describes you quite well. And as far as being a coward goes, I use my real name here and that means you can trace me down to my home address these days. How about you? Seems to me the coward is the one throwing out pointless insults and hides behind an internet moniker.
ethanwiner.com/forums.htm
@@sgals3395 Is that the best you can dig up on me? I am not a licensed electrician. I don't practice commercial and residential wiring on a daily basis. So like most professionals, when I am not sure I consult with other experts in their respective fields .
@@sgals3395 No, read it again, I never orchestrated the move of a 160kw 3phase UPS system before. And like they teach in an engineering curriculum, you do your research first before blasting into a project especially where deadly forces are involved. Like battery cabinets that supply 540v at 400 amps. Yes, I do understand batteries, the fact that they can supply full bolted fault current for quite a long time as far as fire and life safety is concerned. That they can self-recharge after being measured "dead" due to dielectric absorption.
Furthermore I guess you are now acknowledging that I do work in technical centers where such sizable UPS systems are used. Now that's not exactly proof that I have been in a recording studio by your standards but we are getting closer to the fact that I am not an idiot to be charged with a project of that scale.
Keep going, we'll get there.
Oh, and by the way, standard household cable within your walls, is around $1.50 per metre...so if you spend any more than that on snake oil power cables, you need your head examined...
I’ve got good interconnects and speaker cable in line with the cost of my system. I decided to try power cables, so got the wireworld matrix power strip and a wireworld stratus 7 power cable. At first I didn’t notice a difference but then after a few hours of burn in, I noticed the imaging and sound stage open up, I could hear the instruments and voices in different locations for the first time
Burn baby burn disco inferno.
Total placebo. This happens with anything after your ears adjust to something.
wishus knight I hadn’t made any changes to my system for months and had been listening to it daily, so I knew the sound very well. After the introduction of the power cables, there was noticeable difference which I picked up. You may think it is placebo, but there was a noticeable difference. It may be due to better shielding over a belkin power strip or another reason.
@@shahidyt Interference is a possibility. But this would be manifest in other anomalies, and is often the symptom of a more fundamental issue. The other difference is sometimes a touch less vdroop with thicker cable, or better power factor if a component has any filtering.
With my system I use a full blown isolation transformer (ac-dc-ac) simply because I do have rather nasty power where I am. And this gives me a clean sine wave and perfect 120 volts output. I have never noticed any difference in cables between that and my equipment, and am generally content with anything lying around. This is even proven with very precise measuring equipment.
In my shop I have several compressors from refrigeration units and other electronic equipment running which can have an abnormal effect on my equipment. Such as popping and cracking when something powers up. Or my DAC crashing from a power drop when the walkin kicks in. Cabling from the wall to my amp will not make any difference at all. Even if I didn't have any of that equipment.
if cabling between the wall and equipment makes a striking difference, that is probably a sign of something more fundamental which needs addressing. Consider an isolation unit. Ones designed for lab use, and not audio equipment are generally cheaper and more robust, as they don't contain any snake oil and fancy packaging. And are often cheaper than expensive copper cables!
@@shahidyt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There are quite a few diy/how to vids and/or directions online about how to build both high quality interconnects and pwr cables. Just make sure to do your research beforehand and know what your getting into, as different designs and materials with give you different results.
I enjoy your videos!
low resistance speaker cables with proper plugs and shielded rca cables, thats the only ones i would agree on
because i noticed a difference myself:
- having too thin cables, low end wasnt kicking properly, muddy.
-bare copper wires that corroded or (gold)plated plugs that had bad contact resistance took away my highs and distorted them.
-unshielded rca cables pick up every shit in here, having a phone nearby wasnt possible. especially no power cables.
It doesn't matter which you change first, just make sure you freeze them first. This will align the molecules.😂
Dave G ... that’s nonsense. It’s more important to get a set with batteries first! 😬
hushpuppykl and magnets
It sounds like nonsense but freezing metals does change the molecular structure of the Crystals make then finer
John sweda ... I am not a naysayer but cryno was used to improve electrical conductivity etc BUT it’s meant to work as long as the temp is kept that low.
Using low temp to temper metals is not proven to help electrical conductivity (thermal conductivity yes) but yes it does harden the metal when it’s back to room temp.
But there are some scientific paper on cryno treatment of metals during its manufacturing process that may help in improving electrical conductivity. That is in the manufacturing process when the metal is rolled out. But some of the metals are more ‘exotic’.
So it’s kinda ‘dubious’ if cryno works on simple copper/silver coated cables ... esp when it’s done after the cable’s manufacturing. 😬
There's so much snake oil in audio. I don't understand how putting a 6' of a "magic" power cable at then end of what is probably well over 100' of romex cable snaking around your home can possibly make any difference.
Just my 2 cents, but I would avoid the inexpensive lines of Audioquest cables. I think it’s really great that they are genuinely trying to make good cables at entry level prices, but I think they’re overreaching a bit in their design or something, I just don’t think they figured it out yet.
I bought a bunch of Golden Gate cables and they sounded so weird to me, very forward in the upper mids/highs, and just no matter where I put then in my chain they made things sound really weird, even with different speakers. Could just be my system though. My cheaper monster cables with rolled-off highs sounded much more neutral and tolerable by comparison, although with less detail and dynamics.
I eventually scored a used pair of Audioquest Jaguars though and they’re great. I think you just have to spend a few hundred with Audioquest to get to the stuff worth using. For what it’s worth...
Canare star quad with some reasonable connectors is my goto for interconnects and a power cable big enough to easily satisfy the device's appetite. Courtesy cables are never meant to be used long term, just for a basic system aliveness test.
Is that cable safety listed for primary AC use? I happen to know it's not!
@@andydelle4509 Star quad for interconnects, not AC.
A successful double blind cable test would prove once and for all that cables make a difference..... but a failed test would hurt business, so I'm guessing that is something we'll never see.
Power cables will make the biggest difference/improvement.
Yes, and Nordost is the best I've tried since early 90's.
I would agree except with Audioquest Toslink cables. I was using diamond cables for some of my gear that I couldn't use coaxial with but the Lifatec glass optical cables I got recently blew me away for about half the price of the Audioquest diamonds
Go with Audio cables for sure.... If you are even remotely considering power cables, please watch this first. th-cam.com/video/Rgun97VK7y8/w-d-xo.html
I don't agree. Power cables are the single most important cables in audio. They make the biggest difference in general. But it is also dependent on the system. Get both that you make yourself as a DIY projecy, then there is enough money to cover that. Cables in audio cost way too much, especially the ones that make the biggest difference. Also try using a 50cm and 200cm power cables to see what you prefer. Some people think that that 50cm cable is like 2x better, some other people prefer the 200cm version that is more mellow and pleasant.
This is what I don’t get about “snake oilers”!
Ones that shout out cables are snake oil.
Do they own measuring equipment and employ them on every component they own?
Just buy silver!
Out of curiosity I downgraded my speaker cables from QED 79 Strand to 2-core mains flex. Guess what? No difference.
Congratulations. Do you want an award for your observations?
Duh, of course not.
For the majority of people with a system worth under 2,000 all-in, he answer the answer is neither, ever.
Easy answer when I get asked this: power cable for the amp, interconnect between amp and pre. For an AVR, power cable and best interconnect cable between primary music source (analog or digital). Move on from there.
Build your own cables. Seriously, get a soldering iron and 100 bucks worth of parts and you will have cables that could rival pretty much anything out there on the market.
Because everything out there is copper really.
@@humanbass silver rules, but not always a priority ;)
@@Projacked1 the difference is very small and going to a thicker copper wire improves the conductivity for less money.
@@humanbass, changing my interconnects was the most significant difference, as Paul said. Agreed on bigger gauge, always...
Running 1mm versus 0,8 mm interlinks was a very obvious change to my ears. Same design, same materials. Try a bigger gauge ground wire unbalanced.
@@humanbass no it's not...or you are listening to less revealing speakers.....
Paul McGowan and PS Audio should be embarrassed and ashamed about his comment regarding their own companies stock power cables! At their prices, you'd think you might get something serviceable! Beyond his contradiction...'get the interconnects first but, watch out for our cheap power supply... What is the answer to the question?!
Blue Jeans cables every time. Nothing against Audioquest, they’re also very good, but Blue Jeans tends to offer more at a more reasonable price
Forget about power & audio cables - room dehumidifier makes a huge difference in sound dissipation when humidity in a room is just about right. Secondly, a hamster on a wheel also helps controlling a bass particularly from those floor-streamed membrane subs. Hamster's cage should preferably be made of a japanese cherry wood but bamboo licked by panda should just do a trick. And absolutely "a must", above anything else are field cable elevators!!! They make more difference in sound reproduction than any other component/part in your system. Besides, anyone who sees them will know straight away that you are serious audiophile. Hope this helps ;)
@PS Audio: Paul, take a good look at yourself and your life. Enough about this bullshit about high priced cables. Deep down you know the answer. You are just afraid to scientifically prove it to yourself. Do some good blind testing and then figure out what you want to leave behind: good info and honesty, or 'personal' opinions shaped by the money you make selling expensive cables and gear..... You are an engineer. You know AC, frequency ranges, noise,etc. You know capacitance/inductance/resistance per feet. You know the formulas for LPF, HPF. You know audio freq. ranges....You do know that human senses (seeing, hearing) are limited. You do know that a 0.0001% change in a signal (be it audio or light, be it noise, freq shift, phase shift, amplitude or what not) is not perceptible by any human being. Do the math, do some blind tests and take a good look at what you do here and what you try to convince people of and why you do it.... (No, I'm not talking about crap cables vs ok honest cables, not about 5$ vs $20$ cables. You know what I talk about)...Good luck in your life...There is a price to pay for everything...eventually..
Or you could just be another psychopath driven by money and then ok, just ignore everything and keep doing what you do.... That's fine.
Audioquest makes great cables, might I suggest to start, Audioquest CV4 or Cv8, if no biwiring. For interconnects, King Cobras and for Power Cables Nrg-4 or Nrg-2, which are older and have been replaced. You can find everything listed at Music Direct for reasonable prices and goodluck. Dont be afraid of demo or openbox from them, which will save you big time.
Just ordered a pair Audioquest CV4's, I can't wait to get them hooked up and burned in!
Does anyone ever open up their power amplifiers or speakers and replace the wiring with these "magic" wires?
I doubt it.....
But I'm told they do replace their duplex outlets with "magic* outlets that prevent
"micro arcing" 😆🤣😂
@Swinde
As far as amps, upgrading caps and resistors in certain areas cause better sonic results.
As far as speakers go, upgrading to better parts also such as better caps, resistors, inductors, and evening silver coated wire can make audible sonic differences. Wether you’d like them or not is a different story. I personally do.
@Swinde
*even silver coated wire
Not sure about wire in amplifiers, and I wish I had more definitive answers for you. 🎶🔊🙂
Usually when a speaker or amplifier gets to a certain point they already come with nicer wiring in them. Not all of them but there are plenty of manufactures that put money into higher end wiring. I am not saying it is necessarily better or that I think cables make a big difference but it is done in the industry.
@@NickP333 I had my tube amp upgraded by Charles van Oosterum ( CED of Kharma International; just google!)
He replaced all wiring by his own slver/ gold cables. Man, what a difference !
It's logical why better interconnect cables (to a limit, not $2000 of snake oil cables) can better transfer the signal, but where is the logic in adding 6 feet of copper (snake oil cable) to the 60 feet of copper lumex in the wall feeding it (AC travels back and forth though the entire power delivery wires)? The size of the cable must suit the power requirement of the amp, but what can be gained by adding 6 feet of 12 AWG power cord, when the circuit has many feet of 14 AWG in the wall? There might be some benefit from a shielded power cable, but only to stop any noise in the last 6 feet. The shield will do nothing to stop the noise getting in before the cable (miles of wire to the power station) and won't even let any of that noise leak out. Where is the science, because it makes no sense to buy an expensive "magical" power cord. Put that money to a better amp, preamp, DAC, source, speakers....where a significant (real) sound quality can be attained. The placebo effect seems to really affect audiophiles.
I have done all the upgraded power/Audio/cables , One at a time i should review my opion on them ,But its a doubled edge sword but i noticed the biggest difference in my Reference system with the actual speaker cable all audioquest, all Low-mid level and Speaker cable is DYI that I'm thinking about doing a video on X2 +BFA 300
I had the power company come replace my transformer and wires before I ripped out my electrical wiring and replaced it all with high quality wire. Next spring, I'm working on rewiring from the transformer back to the power station. Should sound OK then.
Heh, heh, heh,....... So what's wrong with Kimber or whatever Companies using Cardas wire? (Just messing with you Paul: AQ probably starts a little lower in price !)
Guys, come on....
You all must experiment with cable, and especially with power cords.
Know this : What are we listen in fact in our hifi or highend system ?
The answer is very simple : CURRENT
So the more quality of current exist into our system, the more clear sound we have.
In my opinion, based on my experiments, first thing is to have as good as possible POWER CORD.
My cheapest power cord from my system is more expensive then my floorstand speakers.
No need to invest huge amount of money into equipment. Decent one are good enough.
Then you must choose cable wisely and as much as expensive you can afford to get a nirvana sound.
I listen at many friend of mine with money potential very expensive systems, but linked with mediocre cable and the sound is good but not as good as it should be.
Second, after the power cords, are INTERCONNECTS. Good ones do make big difference. The speaker cable and after that, if you not very satisfy with the sound you get, you can think to upgrade equipment.
This is my opinion based on my experiments.
Spend the money upgrading your room.
PS Audio used to make audio cables, I think they were called XStream, or something similar. Do you have any plans to offer those again?
From my experience, power cables make the biggest difference and speaker cables make the least difference.
Just go silver all the way doesn't have to be expensive maybe copper for speaker cables if your speakers are bright. Just buy an isolation transformer
I would go platinum, it more expensive.
@@r423sdex I done made me some vibranium interconnects. Big mistake. It made my turntable go all wibbly wobbly. Knew I should have used that there unobtanium!
@@r423sdex silver is the best material for passing electrons it's 100% non-resistant platinum isn't. copper second goal third 14% more resistant than silver, then erodium maybe platinum after
@@johnsweda2999 what speed does a electron travel down a cable ? And does it actually make a difference, as it one electron in and one out.
Wait a moment? Does it mean, you are selling your stuff with bad power cables? Why? That makes no sense. It's like Ferrari or Porsche would soll their cars with bad tires! If you want your car to be fast and safe, buy better tires! And we can't sell you our sports car with better tires, because it would make the car more expensive. That's just stupid! It is what it is. A lot of voodoo in this business.
Cable topic
Oh shit!!
if I upgrade power cable on my vacuum cleaner will it suck better?
Yes, sucking money from your savings lol
I must disagree with you when it comes to AC and interconnects. I think power cables makes a much bigger difference than interconnects so I say:
Change the cables in this order: Speaker-cables , AC-cables and interconnets.
I would suggest Nordost also if you have the money.
I agree with both comments from my own experience
Home Depot, or Lowe’s, .14 gauge lamp cord, 36 cents per foot. Now I’m waiting for rebuttal.
mains power cables don’t make any difference, in audio or in any other speciality
for anyone believing otherwise, I can only conclude they lack the intuition and education to see otherwise
I work with mains powered ultra sensitive instruments, that observe nano volt effects, and mains power cables have never made any difference, these instruments don’t have nothing extraordinary for regulation, everything off the shelf in fact, if you believe power cables makes a difference, you deserve to educate yourself on the matter; not that it has to be explained, earth is not flat, it’s as simple as that
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Does this quantifiable measurement conclude there are no sound differences? Can all sound qualities be measured?
@@techrider2088 every thing can be measured in audio equipment.
@@r423sdex No, it cannot. Some audible phenomena cannot be measured. But they exist.
Try to accept science is not developed far enough ( yet) to deal with very complicated effects of sound in the human brain.
And that's what being an audiophile is all about.
What an arrogant opinion! You're just saying that hundreds of thousants of audiophiles are silly idiots because they DO hear differences between powercables?
And don't play the placebo and blind test BS on me!
All my cables are Auto Quest yay
I have had a lot of audioquest cables and they are not worth your money, the new line from mythical creatures are very expensive and the changes in every step higher are just suptile. Plus the speaker kabels just put to much stress on your amp/speakers connectors, is you have monitors they wil be pulled of there stands. If you want high end cabling you go for Nordost! There in a whole nother league and well worth the money, starting from Heimdall 2 cables there the best ones I've owned.
@Mike Unsworth me 2 have had a lot of expensive cables but nothing beats nordost , huge soundstage, speed, clear highs , tight and deep bass .. well you know what i meen
I don't get the literally a power cable upgrade advice, one company sells a power cable that's $15,000! you see when the power comes through the household wiring which goes through a transformer to a disconnect a breaker, 14 or 12g Romex to a outlet with lousy contacts no matter how good the brand of receptical and the lead from the outlet to the equipment is important! Yeah no lamp cord but a good quality stranded home Depot copper lead cable is better than the predeceasing conductors and connections... A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. And as far as the rest like $50,000 for (2) 8' runs of speaker wire...seriously that's ludicrous if someone buys that they deserve to be ripped off.! ahhh imo if you have quality cables few hundred dollars in wires Id think is more than sufficient, I personally don't believe this "you can hear a serious difference" the human hearing is only so good and if it is better I don't feel your not going to hear it. Dog Maby... if you want to bad enough you will, And speaker cable yeah like a welding cable with super fine strands prob work great where the current flows around the perimeter of the conductor. It just a way for people to sell massively overpriced stuff to either wealthy or foolish people Just my opinion maby some day someone will prove or disprove it to me.
You are 100% correct. These high priced power cords are specific to the audiophile market. There is no other market which includes very high end electronics installations such as broadcast / mastering, military and even NASA. What does that tell you! The engineers who work in those facilities know less than some audio magazine reviewer??? Also research the owners or "engineers" in these audio cable companies. What accredited electronics credentials do they have. Traceable credentials that is, not just some unsubstantiated statement they worked in high end electronics. Let's see a bio or resume. You will hear all kinds of excuses for why the in-wall wiring doesn't matter but it's bunk! Any chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. And electrical power flows in a loop from source to device, back to source, which is your street utility transformer. Beyond that it is magnetically coupled to the utility. Some cord may contain ferrite filters which is good in some cases, but those can also be bought cheap online.
He will be selling audiophile grade house transformers and curcuit breakers soon... Don't give him ideas, LOL
@@westelaudio943 Well he or anyone else will run into a big problem with that. It's called a "listed product" and building inspectors highly enforce that. That's why you don't see audiophile grade electrical building products like circuit breakers and panels. Even these AC outlets that are re-plated and/or cryo treated are illegal unless they are run back through a registered safety agency after the modification and in that case the last modification to the product will be on file. What some of these companies do is over-plate or otherwise modify OEM electrical parts and claim they are UL or otherwise listed because they still bear the OEM listing. That's fraud and illegal!
Stupid government intervention? Not at all. Does the new "audio grade" plating adhere properly to the OEM plating or surface metal? Only a qualified chemist or metallurgist will know that. Or will it flake off and possibly cause a short or lethal ground current leakage. Will the cryo treating weaken the plastic to the point where it breaks under normal plug insertion force and expose the user to energized terminals or an arc flash? Accredited electrical engineers at the traditional electrical product companies design for these issues and test though third party agencies to get certification. These buffoons that buy the OEM product and add their secret sauce are not qualified to consider these problems.
@@andydelle4509
Yeah ikr, this kind of stuff will never exist haha. Oh wait it already does
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@@westelaudio943 it's all the rage in Japan. Audiophiles having there own pole/trans installed right outside their homes. Bonkers.
he never looked at the camera when he talks. wonder why
He isn't comfortable lying on youtube lol
@@killbasa2000 How are there any lies here?Please explain.
@@spandel100 Power cables do not make any difference in sound, any channel supporting and spreading that crap are lairs.
@@killbasa2000 100% false
I purchased Furutech gold plated terminal ends, Furutech FP-S022N for my pre-amplifier, and Furutech FP-S032N for my amplifier,
i did blind tests with my friends and family and they all noticed the difference, Much to my fathers bemusement as he cant understand why. (hes a total non believer like you)
The biggest change i noticed was a very punchy base output, it also bathed the sound with a slightly velvety overtone almost as if it was slightly tubey in sound signature. vocals are buttery smooth but yet still crisp, no detail has been lost, if anything i think I've gained a touch of clarity in the upper end.
perhaps there are reasons you may not have noticed the difference?
maybe your interconnects are not up to presenting the change, maybe its the speaker cable, or perhaps your system is not revealing enough?
I'm not sure!
All I can say is that within my system, all be it pretty modest by some of the standards here is that there was a very noticeable difference
@@ewanderric4679 Hi Ewan, I never said speaker or interconnect cables doesn't matter, they do. I'm pretty sure they make sound better, especially if you have longer runs. However POWER CABLES doesn't make any difference any channel supporting that including this one are worthless.
I fell in love with Audio Quest cables. I used to be a non believer. Until I rolled the dice and paid the price. I was speechless and shocked. AQ really knows their stuff. Their cheap cables aren't that great though.
The snakeoil marketing men got to you 🐍🤦🏾♂️
There is much better cables than Audioquest at far cheaper prices without the bullsh*t magical claims 👍🏾
@@C--A Maybe my old cables were just that bad. But when I upgraded. I truly noticed a difference. Only when all my cables were upgraded. You shield out all the outside interference and space your cables apart from each other. So they aren't touching each other and keep them off the floor. It does help and make a difference. I won't spend more on a cable then the cheapest component in my system. That's my rule. I will say someone who has purchased many Audioquest cables. Their cheapest entry-level cables are no different than any other cheap cable. But once you start to climb up. The next line is better than the last and so on. Even though it's not much. This is from many hours of critical listening. With the same songs testing each cable. My ears are actually hearing a difference. Cables have the power to color the sound. So does interference and cable resistance. I understand snakeoil. But I still pay attention. If I try something and it's not backed up by what it claims it does. It's going back. I'm telling the truth.
Uh oh, a cable video. Lets the comments war begin !
Same goes with digital audio cables
no need for comment wars when a lot of those trained cucks are trained to not look further... that is why they are educated in the new church of nowadays.
just fuck those brainwahed cucks with natural facts.
and debunk the globe in the meantime; proving them retard engineers
Cables? Oh dear.
😐
lol power cables, as if the Romex in the wall cares.
Spending money on high end over priced power cables is like saying changing the color of your car makes it go faster! Its money out of your pocket and into the cable makers pocket as they laugh all the way to the bank !
@ Mr Dash....what do you consider to be high end and overpriced? That would be rather subjective and makes me think you'd be happy to spend on high end cables that aren't so called 'overpriced'?
Can you also confirm please what cables fall into the high end and not overpriced category please?
Thank you.
Anything over $10 is overpriced.
The one that is cheaper and gives you the best placebo effect.
Talking analog, but fiber FC connectors on the thumbnail? Lol
Another made up letter so he can have an excuse to advertise and try and sell his power conditioner this time.
It is his channel. He can use it however he sees fit.
And you don't have to watch it.
My 2.5 Cents Take.. : Just listen to the music...................... and enjoy it..
Who the cares about cables ..... If you have money either you spend it or save it ...
If your cables are designed in USA and assembled in China.. 🤣🤣🤣 LMAO
Let's ask Gene Dellasala his opinion of this at Audioholics. Lol
Are they like Julian Hirsh from 40 years ago eg everything (eg all amps) sounds same except speakers?
$4,400 IEC cable? Shame on you and your company. That's more than the cost of a very capable complete Hifi system. You are the P.T. Barnum of audio. The epitome of "disposable" income.
Paul forget to mention , that also you need a Noise Harvester , the most important component .
I’m sick of this guy using these videos to boost sales if you want to upgrade your system don’t buy PS audio,forget Audioquest there a joke with enormous product line,go Kimber Kable if your serious about quality sound
You just boosted Kimber Kable :-))
Your comment is stupid and rude; Paul does not sell AQ.
He has good experience with those cables ( so have I); why should'nt he pass that through?
And sure: Kimber is OK. But why the idiot agression in your comment? Get help man.....
What douchery. As you as you mention audiophile power cables, I start laughing. Save the money and invest it or give it to charity.
I dont want to save my money.I bought four power cords and im very happy how they improved the sound.
Of course if someone have cheapest audio system like you do, there's not gonna be big of a difference.
Betrayed your dealers? Shameful!
And one more thing: Do you care to make a video to explain how come your power stations or whatever they are called and that must cost a fortune can do what the power supplies in your other EXPENSIVE HI FI products can't? On one side we have I assume a AC-DC-AC converter and on the other side just an AC-DC converter.... One of the two is crap if you need both for hi-fi.... Right? Do your AC-DC converters in your hi-fi equipments are not able to deliver the DC specified? In any power regime and frequency ranges needed for audio systems? Do they have AUDIBLE noise in the AF range???? LOOLLLL
Most people wouldn’t through them away if you gave them an adequate cable, and please let’s not pretend your not making very high profits,I used to sell this stuff.
“Audio cables make more of a sonic difference than power cables”
Well that’s not difficult considering power cables make literally no difference whatsoever because of these things called power supplies, and they work pretty well.
Neither lmao
Racist
@@cajhonson44 wot
3:36 ish you arrogantly admit the power connect cables that come with your multiple thousand dollar amps and equipment are crap in your opinion! Are you serious? I honestly don't know what to say! Holy shit you got a set of balls sir!!!
He is honest. What is the point of shipping the amp with cables that cost $100,- when people that build a system with that gear throw them away because they want to have the best? He didn't say they are bad, but the subject of this video is upgrading the cables, in that context he advises to change the oem powercables of the Stellar for something better.
neither just buy a better amp or better speakers.
Don't do either. Learn how the PSU works in your amplifier and then get mad at snake oil salesmen.
Cables make no difference to sound. Zero difference. Audioquest is a scam.
Absolute nonsense. Simply compare the conductivity of silver compared to copper. Some types of copper MEASURE better than others. This affects capacitance/reactance/impedance, and therefore the sound. Speakers with phase angles and impedance variations benefit more from this.
I used to think that too (cables are irrelevant). But you play pink or white noise through different cables to your left and right and you will, in fact hear a difference.
My comment from above. I have only ever used Audioquest cables and agree with Paul.I also,after many years,have found that the best material to use for a cable is copper.Anything with silver will give you an over revealing sound which can become sibilant.Copper has magic qualities,it warms the sound as well as letting through all the music and none of the electronics.I used to say to the guys at the audio outlets that somebody must be frying a steak in the recording studio,to me that is what over revealing cables sound like...somebody frying steak.Put on the copper and the chef leaves the room.
Please have you ears tested at your earliest opportunity.
Audio quest cables are just snake oils-- ask any real engineer about it--- such snake oils have no effect on low quality gears, while hi-fi audio gears do not need them at all. The best effective cables could be blue jeans and KabelDirct, talking from my own experience.
engineers are not TRAINED in REALITY
@Fat Rat
who wants to listen to a fat rat? you have jewish ancestry or something? hahhahaha
Firstly, I am a fan of the channel and of the company in general. That being said, I have a question that may have a trivial answer that I'm just not seeing, but.....Did I really just hear you say "The ones that we give you?.......meh"?
If I understand your question correctly you're asking why I said "meh" in reference to the stock power cables we ship with each unit? They are what we refer to as courtesy cables. They work, they get the unit up and running, but they are not what we would recommend over the long term. We don't ship our products with expensive aftermarket cables because it would raise the price of the unit by rather a lot. More important, we have come to learn over the years that our customers have their favorite power cords already. When they buy a new piece of gear it's usually as a swap upgrade. They upgrade to our product but want to use the same power cord they already invested in. If we include our choice in cables and they don't want to use them, they feel cheated that they paid extra for the entire package. It's kind of a no win situation. I am not happy with the way we do it, but haven't found a better alternative.
@@Paulmcgowanpsaudio Fair enough. I would do the same thing, knowing that.
@@Paulmcgowanpsaudio Also, the aluminum cone woofer you chose for the new tower revision, I would really be surprised if you change it, that's a great selection. The best woofer I ever heard was a high-watt, fast aluminum cone. Really excited to see the final product, I watch every video you have about them :)
Wow ! That is reprehensible . How can you sell a product under the pretense that it is an upscale component far superior to the mass market components that the customer has previously purchased and then acknowledge that the power cable that is provided with the component is subpar ? If I was fortunate enough to be able to purchase a 1000 horsepower Ferrari supercar , I would be more than disappointed to learn tht I would have to spend an additional $ 100,000 on a transmission to utilize the car to it's full potential . I can't speak for everybody , but if you are marketing your product as a best in the industry candidate , and you are trying to sell electrical quality and regenerative technology , why would you include subpar electrical cables as standard equipment on your best components ? If I was selling 5k monoblocks I can assure that the IEC cables that were shipped with the units were state of the art . The preconcieved notion that if you have 5k to spend on my monoblocks yet I will force you to spend several thousands more to actually hear any benefits speaks for itself . If I have a product that is in fact superior to what is available , I will provide that product at a reasonable cost . If I market this product with considerations , ( Yes , the IEC CORD was actually designed for a toaster , and therefore cost effective ) I would be considered a thief . Hi end is a scam . Get yourself the best components you can actually enjoy . These scumbags that are brainwashing you into spending your hard earned money are not your friends . Yes , I know . They will be attacking me immediately . I am the bad guy . The fact of the matter is ,I am doing my best to save you many thousands of dollars . There has been virtually zero significant advances in quality audio reproduction in decades . Go ahead , you are free to spend 14k on a new , state of of the art music server . Yes , you can purchase a new DAC every 3 months . Some of them are actually exceptional . At the end of the day , I implore you all , if in fact you enjoy music . Enjoy your music and ignore the people who are selling you equipment that will soon be obsolete . At the end of the day , It is the content of the musicians , not the engineers that will be remembered .
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