Listened to my new power cord last night and now ready to write my impression. But first, wusplay's fancy Furutech DPS4.1 cables with NCF plugs.
Furutech Roxy vs Furutech DPS4.1+NCF on my DAC.
First thing I notice was the timbre of my setup became noticeably warmer. There also seemed to be a lost of harmonics, those beautiful reverbs I've heard in my usual piano tracks disappeared. There seemed to be also a somewhat thickening of the sound. There were a couple of positive improvements. Bass improved in both quantity and quality. Soundstage was definitely wider too. After listening to DPS4.1 for one day and doing some back and forth A B comparison, I put back my Roxy. I was not willing to live with the compromises.
Belden 19364 vs Furutech DPS4.1+NCF on my Furutech TP80 mains conditioner.
Same like my experience on DAC, tone became warmer and harmonics was lost, but to lesser effect compared to on the DAC. Surprisingly, bass was worse compared to my cheapo Belden that I got from Sim Lim Tower. There was less of it and bass drum sounded less punchy. Soundstage remained the same. Easy decision to put the Belden back on my conditioner.
This is Real Cable Citrine. Similar to Cabasse, Real Cable focused mostly on domestic French market, but they do offer their higher end stuffs to select countries like Japan. The Citrine is their flagship power cord exclusive to Japan and terminated with Oyaide plugs, current pricing is 39000 yen. I came across a review of it while searching for reviews on Furutech cables and I was intrigued.
https://www.audiostyle.net/archives/citrine-psocc2.html
Plugged into my Lab12 Dac1, my experience with this cable was rather different from the chap above though. First thing I noticed with this cord was the bass quality. There was more of it like the Furutech DPS4.1 but better. With the DPS4.1 bass guitar sounded a bit boomy, but with this cable it just sounded more correct; punchy but still rounded. Soundstage was expanded like the DPS 4.1 as well.
The review above mentioned that the high sounded more metallic and bright. That was not my experience at all. In fact, there seems to be like a sort of soft glow that made the tone sounded more pleasant. I find that my enjoyment of piano tracks and female vocals increased significantly with this power cord. And all those beautiful harmonics are still there, yay. Perhaps this cable can be described with one word: romantic.
Best cord purchase I've made. And this also shows that you don't need to spend a bomb on power cords to get noticeable improvements.
with his room treatment. ;D
. Anyway congrats, good time to put your money in gold.
