The two power cords I had liked best before hearing the WyWire Juice HCs were the Sablon Gran Coronas and the Audience Au24SE speaker cables. With the WyWire power cords the realistic sound of drums was as quick and impactful as I have heard in my system. One of the things a really good transmission line speaker like the Teresonic Ingeniums can do is bring drums to life. It was drums that were absolutely astonishing. Brass instruments sounded brassy without sounding harsh or edgy. Cymbals, violins, flutes, guitars, and other such instruments sounded beautiful in the way that makes one sit up and say, “oh my.” Both male and female voices sounded so right, as did the bite on trumpets. My system sounded exquisite in the top end and midrange. They allowed my system to do all this without ever sounding astringent or aggressive, not the easiest thing to do with Lowther speakers. The system also had a very natural, quite, and clear sound with the WyWire cables. I also heard exceptional articulation and micro-dynamics. The system had beautiful detail in contrast to etched and exacting detail. With the WyWire Juice HC power cords, my reference system produced a big, spacious, holistic, three-dimensional soundstage. So while they were gone I used one of the WyWires power cords from the wall to the HB Cable Design’s PowerSlave Marble and another one to my Wavac EC300B amp. I began to discover this when I put the PowerBroker in my reference system, but the big discovery came when I sent my Audience Au24 powerChords back to be updated to the SE version. In fact I’m not being fair to the WyWire Juice power cords when I call them a bargain, because they can stand on their own with any priced power cords. As good as the PowerBroker is I think the power cords may be an even better bargain. I used these cables in my video digital system when I reviewed the WyWire’s PowerBroker. So, I have loved how light and flexible these power cords are. Next, the cord came out and the preamp fell back down and one of the tubes came out and blew the fuse.
Once I tried out some power cords that were so thick and inflexible that the power cord actually raised my preamp up in the air - and this was no light weight preamp. Let me start by telling you the thing I like best about this power cord other then how my system sound with them: They are very light and very flexible with incredibly tight connectors. With this difference in price I felt I had to share with you the sound of what has to be the best bargain in audio when it comes to power cords. The new WyWire’s Juice HC High Current Power Cords are no exception, but then they do cost $600 versus $2,420 for the Au24SEs. Still, I have found nothing that has made me want to switch from the Audience Au24SE powerChords.
#Audionote cobra price free#
It’s not that I haven’t listened to a lot of power cords I have had in house everything from the Shindo power cords that come free with their gear all the way to a power cord that cost $8,000. Almost all of them sounded considerably better than stock cords, and they all sounded different from each other.Īs many cables as I have reviewed, I believe this is only the second time I have thought a power cable deserved a separate review. I’ve spent a lot of time over those years trying different interconnects, speaker cables, and a little later in the game, even power cords.
Well, over thirty years have passed and people are still making different sounding cables and like everything else, they have gotten a lot more expensive. I couldn’t believe it, they made a very significant difference, and for the better I might add.
I drove a couple of hours to Steve’s house to hear if they made any difference. What was even more unbelievable was that they made a power cord called the King Cobra that was $1,000. I think they were called Black Mambas and cost around $400. He was very excited about the difference that replacing his stock power cords with Powersnakes from Shunyata Research had made in his system. I mean how could the power cord make any difference in the sound of an audio system? My long time audio-bud, Steve Woolsey, called me one day.
One of those for me was the first time someone suggested that I should pay for power cords. I know I have told this story before but there are some things that just stick in your memory.
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