Cable Sutra - Whisper Power Cord, Common Ground Cables

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Last night I finally took the time to place Al’s the Stealth Dream V18 LE Digital into PSA P20 powering entire system mode. This was after finding a replacement for its spot where it truly reined supreme powering my MX150 pre processor with a tweaked tuning ring position . That was not an easy feat only have one Common Ground Whisper Elite. The spots I have trialed the Whisper Elite it is always near the top. Especially if you also find an optimum position for its tuning ring.

I did find recently after my Dragon HC was tuned onthe P20 with a homemade 3M AB7050HF tuning ring all of my downstream cables got better way better just liked the Whisper Elite with tuning ring. The whisper Elite with tuning ring knocks of the Dragon until the Dragon HC is tuned near the female IEC then its very close.and perhaps the Dragon edges ahead but I dount have enough Whisper Elites to place elsewhere

The cable for the MX150 ended up being the Core Power Diamond Xtreme with a Al foil wrap and Cu foil wrap. Interestingly no homemade tuning ring. It turns out it does very very well in the Preamp role and powering DS DAC when the Dragon HC on P20 has the 3M absorber tuning ring. It was best of all cables I had available to trial except the Stealth V18 digital in this role I felt it important to get my system sounding top notch before swapping cables at the P20.

It would be interesting to have a Stealth Dream V18 UNI cable for this trial since it has adjustments with Pins placed in its back shell to convert between Digital, Power Distribution and Analog roles.

But what I found was the Stealth Dream V18 Digital powering P20 is not as open high end and objects in Soundstage are more founded perhaps a tad filtered. However it still performed better than the Base level Whisper or tuned Ehisper or my double Al and copper wrapped BAV power cord powering the P20. Please note none of the choices are bad for my system until one hears a better match to the system you would be completely happy.

So for the P20 using a SR Purple Fuse for my system a subjective ranking

  1. AQ Dragon HC with 3M Tuning Ring or Whisper Elite with 3M Tuning Ring Note: Perhaps a slight edge to Tuned Dragon on more High End clarity.
  2. Whisper Elite
  3. Dragon HC
  4. Stealth Dream V18 LE Digital
  5. Whisper base with tuning ring
  6. Whisper base
  7. BAV 20Amp with two foil wraps
  8. BAV 20Amp
  9. The P20 cord it delivered with Note any of the above cords way out distancing its performance by a mile.

Now on to testing my new M-1 Audio Magic fuse vs Purple.

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