The best standard power cord?
Posted by: Efraim roots on 25 January 2010
Greetings!
Naim is very sensitive to installation I have learned and I'm trying to get most out of my 202/200. I got the 'I Sheng' powercord with the nap200 and I today thought that I should try a 'Ching Cheng' that came with my Lingo2 on the nap200. I also did a search on this forum and read that 'ching cheng' also been used as standard cord with Naim equipment aswell as Linn.
I must say that the difference is really fundamental were the 'ching cheng' is more warm, tuneful and balanced the 'I sheng' is more cold and clear, more 'hammering' rythmwize. I think I prefer the ching cheng in the long run but I will experiment some more.
I also compared the 'I sheng' with a recent Linn standard cord called 'Tongyuan' on my Lingo2 and did not hear the same differences as on the amp, here the Tongyuan was simply better on everything, tunwize, PRAT and soundwize.
Have somebody tried and compared the different standard cords sent with Naim equipment? Wich do you prefer? Have you taken notice on the direction of the cable? It's a shame that the direction of standard cables are random. I would like to know wich is best musically and PRATwize.
If I buy a new cord from my Naim dealer which will I likley get today? Im located in northern Europe.
Naim is very sensitive to installation I have learned and I'm trying to get most out of my 202/200. I got the 'I Sheng' powercord with the nap200 and I today thought that I should try a 'Ching Cheng' that came with my Lingo2 on the nap200. I also did a search on this forum and read that 'ching cheng' also been used as standard cord with Naim equipment aswell as Linn.
I must say that the difference is really fundamental were the 'ching cheng' is more warm, tuneful and balanced the 'I sheng' is more cold and clear, more 'hammering' rythmwize. I think I prefer the ching cheng in the long run but I will experiment some more.
I also compared the 'I sheng' with a recent Linn standard cord called 'Tongyuan' on my Lingo2 and did not hear the same differences as on the amp, here the Tongyuan was simply better on everything, tunwize, PRAT and soundwize.
Have somebody tried and compared the different standard cords sent with Naim equipment? Wich do you prefer? Have you taken notice on the direction of the cable? It's a shame that the direction of standard cables are random. I would like to know wich is best musically and PRATwize.
If I buy a new cord from my Naim dealer which will I likley get today? Im located in northern Europe.
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Best that people who believe power cords make earth shattering changes go lie down in a darkened room.
Go check out this new level of s-s-s-snake oil infes-s-sted in-s-s-s-s-sanity designed to s-s-s-eparate un-s-s-s-pecting s-s-s-s-souls of their s-s-s-surplus-s-s-s cas-s-s-s-h
But it looks so cool I want one to put on my bookshelves as an ornament. 
I bet that (in modern safety Britain) a person could be lifted for carrying such a weapon like thing de-bagged, as it were. 
quote:Originally posted by JWM:quote:Originally posted by Efraim roots:
...I want to make those final details perfect.
There is also one other big benefit of knowing which of your standard power cords that sounds best. Because you could move the best sounding cables towards the source.
Surely the easy solution is to try your mains cables in every combination to see which is best? Though you must give each combination the correct amount of time to warm up before judging.
So, plug everything together in 'arrangement 1', making a note of which mains cable is which.
Switch on and let it warm up until fully on-song (3 days to a week).
Have a good listen. Perhaps make a few written notes.
Switch off. Unplug and replug mains cables to next combination 'arrangement 2' - changing no more than one mains cable at a time, so that you know the effect each brings.
Switch on again and let it warm up until fully on-song (3 days to a week) ensuring this is for the same period as you did before.
Have a good listen (in the interests of fairness, to the same pieces of music, and at the same time of day on the same day of the week to try to get as near as possible to the same power demand conditions on the electricity grid). Make (or not) a few written notes as before, on the same criteria.
Repeat process ad nauseam until all combinations are exhausted. Compare notes and make final judgement/arrangement.
Note: none of this can be done until your equipment is run-in - at least six weeks, though it is likely to continue improve in subtle ways over anything upto six months.
Don't forget that your seat will have to be in exactly the same place, wearing the same clothes and with exactly the same length of hair. If you put on a little weight, you'll need to start over.