Bulk Furutech DIY Extreme Power CableDPS-4 Alpha OCC-DUCC 11ga $150 footusedBulk Furutech DIY Extreme Power Cable DPS-4 Alpha OCC-DUCC 11ga $150 foot Furutech Carbon Fiber FI-50 NCF PlugsThere is a reason this cable costs so much in bulk for Do It Yourselfers, the technology that goes into this is hardcore. They have incorporated micro polished strands of two different types of pat...1670.00

Bulk Furutech DIY Extreme Power Cable DPS-4 Alpha OCC-DUCC 11ga $150 foot Furutech Carbon Fiber FI-50 NCF Plugs

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There is a reason this cable costs so much in bulk for Do It Yourselfers, the technology that goes into this is hardcore. They have incorporated micro polished strands of two different types of patented specialty audiophile copper so as to get the benefits of both. Not only that, they have used different sizes that have different frequencies they perform best with.
<br>Cable this good warrants one of the very best in plugs on the market, That would be the Furutech Carbon Fiber FI-50 NCF Nano technology plugs. Not cheap at $385 each. Audiophile cables are all about using terminations that get as close to 100% of the performance inherent in the cables they are hooked up with. These are some of the finest components on the market for power cables. If you don't believe me do a search for power cords with most expensive at the top, using Furutech FI-50 or Carbon Fiber as the search words. You will see a number of the most expensive cables out beyond $20,000 use the FI-50 NCF and the slightly less expensive FI-50CF (Carbon Fiber). At $385 each these put a huge base cost to a power cord, manufacturers have to mark up their costs of making an item several times to cover their associated costs of doing business. Many as a model are using quadruple or higher as a guideline. Retail is going to have to be high enough to reflect a marked up cost that will be marked up for distribution, and then the retailer markup. Those selling products they make direct to customers can operate at quite a bit lower prices, but obviously the DIY person is going to be able to use the same components the big boys are using at a fraction of the cost.
<br>This is a lot of power cord for this money, if you have top echelon interconnects and speaker cables you are going to hear a bass detail that will stun you. There is an added separation between instruments and vocals, drums take on a more lifelike presence. As a bonus I will add a graphite colored mesh jacket and shrink tubing to lock the edges for a great look. I can also add a Furutech Flux 50 filter with this for $1250, that combination makes a power cord that sells for $8000. So for $2900 or so you have an $8000 power cord, not like an $8000 cord, it is an $8000 cord. When I put one of these on my power conditioner that also had my TV plugged into it, the picture was so much better that my wife even said "whoa, what did you do to the TV, is that 3D?" What it does for the picture it is doing to the sound as well.
   I will Ship Priority insured for $12.00, which is about half of the cost. I have other power cord combinations I can do at different price points, all of which perform well against ones costing far more, I get dealer status on the products and try everything they make so that I can define a few key performance levels at prices that fit a few categories. I use ultimate reference products in my system so that I can try different terminations on one type of cable and hear the differences in them, the terminations, not the wire. Most audiophiles are concerned with differences in cables, I try cables and compare how different terminations sound on the one wire. If you are serious about upgrading the wire in your system it would make sense to talk with me. I shifted to a dealer status so that I could advertise things and talk to people about what makes sense for their systems as they exist. I lost the feedback I had with the old identity that reflects that the cable I sell is the real deal and so am I. If I say something compares well to a far more expensive cable I mean it blows it away. I will be escalating prices over the next few months to reflect performance points. That isn't greed, it comes from a marketing standpoint where I have found that if I sell a set of cables for $1500 that outperforms ones costing close to or beyond $10,000, those people looking at $10k have a tough time even looking at products that cost a fraction of that. As crazy as it sounds, raise the price and sales go up, as does the ability of people to pay higher prices. I am looking to put people with modest systems into the best cable they could ever have access to because customers in this industry keep coming back to the dealers that put them on the right track. The last few months people buying this wire have systems that have components that cost huge dollars, try speakers alone listing at $80k to $160k. Those with high resolution but more modestly priced systems need to take advantage of an opportunity to get cables that are far better than they are willing to spend if they were to get their higher priced equals. This audiophile hobby is about the wire, period. Modest equipment can sound far better than most people are aware it can, and by modest I'm talking about separates costing just a few hundred dollars. I used to take the most least likely production separates and put $8000 worth of wire on them and a good set of $3500 speakers, what that system sounds like trips out guys with tens of thousands in their systems. There is no limit to what should be spent relative to the cost of the system, all that matters is if the improvement is big enough that it makes sense. When you can find the performance bargains they are worth getting. The used Valhalla may not be much of a deal just because someone is selling it for a third of it's original cost.
<br> Hearing The Magic Of Power Cords, How They Interact With A System    How often have you heard someone say that they tried a decent budget power cord and a much more expensive one and they couldn't hear much difference? Their take is that expensive power cords are a waste of money, that you get a large piece of what power cords do from budget ones. Audiophiles with extreme systems know better, they've heard differences in one power cord against another. The interesting and sometimes hard to figure factor with power cords is that they are totally dependent on both the interconnects and speaker cables. Either of those will be a rate limiting entity, literally a governor for all of your power cords. Power cords, even though they make a huge difference, are working in a zone of subtle details that the speaker cables have got to have the resolution to allow those qualities to be heard.
   So let's say you go to excellent power cords, but you still need to upgrade interconnects and speaker cables. There is an argument to be made for having good power cords first, but you really need to know how starting there is going to work with the other upgrades. You will not be hearing everything the power cords are doing, your interconnects will not be letting you hear everything, nor will the spkr cables. Say you aren't as impressed with what power cords are doing, you need to know that as you upgrade interconnects and speaker wire that those upgrades will bring what the power cords do into the equation, which is going to make a vastly better impression of them. When you put excellent highly transparent speaker cables in you will get a big piece of what they are doing. It will still be limited to what the interconnects are capable of resolving. When you then go to try better interconnects is when everything going on will be knocking your socks off. I have literally heard people saying no way when they hear it all come together.
   I make no bones about the fact that I advocate speaker cables first, that is so that when you try interconnects you can hear everything going on with them, you can make a far more objective choice between things you are trying. By that same logic I wait for power cords until last, once you have excellent speaker and interconnect cables you will be able to hear far more detail differences in the power cords. This is critical, power cords can have detrimental effects that you need to be able to hear, or later you might be missing something that you will never know is gone. I have found power cords that are too much of a good thing in terms of filtering some components and killing the life. As a dealer trying a vast array of power cords I had settled on JPS Kaptovators, and put them up against an array of power cords in customer's systems that cost substantially more than their $1500 list price. When JPS came out with the Aluminata power cords they were a substantial improvement. But if you simply heard the difference on amps or preamps and assumed they were good across the board it created an interesting problem. When I did amps (and I was a fan of monoblocks so it's two there) and then the preamp they made a huge difference. But putting one on the CD player it somehow killed the life of the music, it's like it filtered the edge that made the details come alive. So back to the Kaptovator and it came alive with all the detail that the Aluminatas made on the amps and preamp. Had I jumped to all Aluminatas the improvement elsewhere might have resulted in a net improvement and I'd have never caught the one place they didn't work well. To hear what power cords are doing you need to do interconnects and speaker cable first. Also some power cords and how they work can be too much with some power conditioners. The power cord to a conditioner can make a huge difference.

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