Slightly diverging from the original topic of power cables, however remaining on topic with the theme of price, I always got a chuckle out of my first dCS dealer trying to convince me to spend more money on a pair of Transparent clock cables than the cost of the accompanying Rossini clock
So I have started at the bottom of the pile with my £138 Sommer Epilogue XLRs, (which sound bloody marvellous) have tried the £450 one’s, so will look forward to demoing the Siltechs. Their mains cable too!
I used a Torus 15 amp isolation transformer. it was huge, heave and i couldn’t have electronics anywhere near it! A fine product but unnecessary in my current setup.
I have a small now system and I’m able to route power cords well away from signal and clock cables. Thx to dCS this is easier as the power inlets and single connectors are at opposite sides of the units.
I have a dedicated separate supply to my hifi room. I have a separate consumer unit from the main tails in, then I ran 1 x 10mm and a 2.5mm loop just to see if any different.
I use the 10mm single just for my amp and the 2.5mm loop goes to 6 un switched sockets all star wired, so you don’t have to worry about plug in order if that is even something?
I also have a huge balanced supply that I am not using at the moment, this has to be wired in differently and then gives you 120 volt down the live and natural, I certainly found it worded well especially with naim as it stopped all the humming, but it started tripping for some reason and so removed it.
So maybe my system with its mains supply is well sorted, but as I said the only time I have really had any mains trouble was with that nasty wall plug supply that came with the melco 100, it didn’t make the melco sound bad it just made the rest of my hifi worse.
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If you can, try the Puritan products. UK-made, and I like mine. I have the mid-range PS106DC which I preferred over my previous Furutech. They also have a cable included and those are effective and very reasonably priced.
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One can say that…Some people in the room heard a difference, but not me 
…I was almost worried about my hears, because the difference was so easy to hear compared to stock cable, and then between a 700€ cable and a 3500€ cable I wasn’t able to tell the difference 
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Yup, dedicated spur is definitely the way to go if possible.
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yes! this is the key. I experimented with all sorts of power cables, and was never awed by anything about them but their size. I spent way less on a dedicated circuit (power box and circuit breakers for the three double mains which supply my vivaldi stack and preamp
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One other thing I can mention is that when I did the 2 hifi shows with my gear I didn’t experience any issues with what I used. I took my own hand made mains cable and we plugged then all into a cheap muilt block extension lead, well infact 2 of these daisy chained together and then into the wall socket in the hotel room.
So no fancy wiring to the room, plus hundreds of other hifi kit, hotel stuff all using the same electric rings in the hotel. Plus we even used a 20 guid wifi thing and a 10 meter un twisted ethernet cable that cost less than 5 quid to get the single for qobuz and you know what, even with all this it sounded the best it had ever sounded, better than at home with all my fathing about. It certainly shows what a much bigger room can do over everything else we tend to worry about.
But it all just worked as it should, no nasty humming or interference as this probably was about as bad as it could ever get with all the other stuff being used and we used such a basic set up it does make you sit down and think about it all.
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Did you make the extension block your self Dunc and did it contain any filters?
It just goes to show, it’s not always necessary to spend thousands on mains cables and power blocks.
Hi David
No the extension block leads were just normal cheap white ones, nothing fancy, with one plugged into the other to give us more sockets
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Wow, I didn’t realise it was a £10.99 job from B&Q or Amazon! And, it didn’t make any difference to your amazing, sounding system.
So you wouldn’t go for a Chord m6 Powerhaus @ £2,500?
Apparently, to justify the price it has filters??
£4.99 from homebase, so quality items as you can see.
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I can see the point of filters on your mains or if it will try and stop say your naim transformers from humming away but, if you can turn your volume to max and no nasty noises come out then do you even have a problem that you need to filter or deal with?
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Not a problem for me anymore. Boy, did that 300DR buzz, hum etc! The Vitus is as quiet as a lamb.
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No expense spared there Dunc!
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Well i don’t use them and that’s all we had. Certainly wasn’t going to buy any, and certainly wasn’t going to buy anything fancy or expensive.
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