Story so far: I have a linear psu feeding a SB via coax to an AVR200 that I use as a dac and pre, feeding a Maia, into a couple of Ditton floor standers. Quite a basic system to some Ive heard but I actually prefer it to some far more expensive kit Ive heard, eg a Naim set up was wonderfully open but far too top endy for me, an FMJ Arcam system gave a wonderful sound stage but far too smooth and soft for me, hence the playing with tweeks to see if my system can be opened up and soundstage improved, and to my pleasure it is working
I have no iec socket on the SB psu as I hard wired the cable straight in, so cant try the VDP3 on that, as of yet anyway. A while back tried a solid silver mains cable that came highly recommended, from its supplier, and to my ears it did fab things, opened things right up and things sounded much better, I had no idea a mains cable could have such an effect, no need to look further I thought. (I found it to have far more effect plugged into the AVR than the Maia, so that is where it stays). Then came along and offer to try a solid core copper cable with some sort of vibration control, via a friends friends colleague, so history is a bit of an unknown, it looks new to my amazement the vocals were so much clearer, the silver cable made things smooth, the copper seemed to give a bit more bite and clarity improved. With some tracks using the Cu cable on the AVR, you could quite easily picture the singers lips with the sound coming directly from the singers mouth just a few feet in front of me Cool Stuff! The silver one went to live in the cupboard after two days, and I bought the Cu one. Four weeks later my VDP3 turned up, thinking a cable ½ the price of the silver one aint going to sound so good. I plugged it in the AVR which is the position in which a power cable seems to have most effect in my system. The sound changed totally, the bite had gone and the sound was small and recessed, not at all in the room, the only plus was that there was more detail. Clearly, I preferred my Cu power cable, with bite and clarity and the in the room feel, however, I was missing the detail I had heard in the VDP3, put it back for its burn in period which aint short. It worked out quite well, for about a month only the tv was watched, so it burnt in without me having to listen to the, not so good, music presentation. I then had two days working at home so had music playing all day reasonably loud and I was quite surprised I was comfortable listening, hmmm. A couple of weeks on: Okay, Im listening to the VDP3 at the moment, it should have had plenty of time to burn in by now, soundstage is nice, instruments seem to have their own locations in 3D space, bass controlled and deep, vocals forward and center, PRaT are rather agreeable. Very pleasant, only thing, I like the, forward in the room sound, and the sound stage could be set slightly more forward towards me to get the total surrounded immersion in music I like, and have not achieved with my set up as of yet ... but one is getting closer Switch back to the old solid core Cu cable: Ah, noticeable loss in clarity and detail Sound stage shrunk Pace so so much better Bass actually deeper but not so controlled Vocals so much more in the room feel Lack of detail is starting to grate Back to the VDP3 Much smoother on the ears. Old solid core to the cupboard. To think I was really impressed with the initial solid silver one and then impressed more with the solid Cu core one and now even more with the VDP3. Just shows me Im at the beginning of what could be a long long investigation and listening adventure, and that things you dont think will affect the music, can, in varying ways. Cool stuff! Any one know if the other VD power cables bring the soundstage more towards ones listing position? Cheers One happy Bunny (I have not pulled it apart though ;) ) -- Deaf Cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deaf Cat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=515 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45323
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