Elrod Power Systems EPS-3 Inverted1 5amp 117"long
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EPS-3 Power Cord in a log 117" 15 amp (early version) in great order was $1,600 now only $495.
Great heavy option and a great offer and value.
No low offers considered.
Review: Elrod Power Systems (EPS) Signature 3 Power cord
See attached Review:If
you’ve ever been attached to any branch of the military, you know much
of the equipment being used is built for function. Not esthetics. Makes
sense. Performance should in fact, take the lead. Looking at the EPS
Signature III PC confirms in it’s appearance, that it’s no beauty
contest winner. Solid throughout, from it’s heavy exterior constructs
covering two ribbons of heavy copper, to the beefy termination of IEC
and NEMA connectors. This unit is built for working. Working it does
quite well in fact.
Speculating on items without auditioning them
before hand is sometimes a risky business. Risky more so in the area of
matching, rather than in the area of quality. There are any number of
quality components available in the high end audio market these days.
Matching to one’s system is however, the deal. The risk of a poor match
is always an issue though. Even after an audition. Unless of course the
examination takes place in the system destined for the item. Sometimes,
and I’ve found more often than not, brand new power cords can take more
time than the dealers usual offer of a “30 day trial” period. Much more
at times. Speaker cables follow closely behind power cords with some
components thereafter.
Then there is the pre-owned marketplace.
In that arena, only the veracity of the seller is primarily the concern
as run in usually has been completed. Given a hypothesis for a desired
item has been postulated, and it’s sum has been found available.
Recently
I made a decision, accidentally, to move more closer to the realm of
‘neutrality’, (I loathe that word ‘neutral’ by the way), via the
addition of but one or two items to my system. Pushed on by either flat
out boredom or some conceived notion of desire, I struck a deal for a
Signature III Elrod power cord. Having only heard of it and never having
actually heard it prior to the purchase. I did research it as best I
could via threads and at least one online article written by a retailer
of the Elrod products which I suspected as prejudiced more than a
little, but the retailer did include the fact he was going to be selling
the products, so I’ll give him something for that disclosure. In fact I
did find much of the notes about performance were very accurate.
What
gets me about any audio component in the satisfactory end of things is
normalcy. Naturalness. Body. Accuracy. …and ultimately, musicality. I
get used to things with some reluctance. I don’t enjoy change for the
sake of it. Gee, I don’t enjoy change much for any reason. When a change
occurs that infuses a strong degree of normalcy into my system, even
that positive influence is at first rejected. I see it as odd. As
different. As change. Thankfully, a positive change is more quickly
redeemed. Adding the elrod was a positive change.
Given the Elrod
was already on my short list of upper end cords to audition, I
prevailed upon the old standby, the cable co. to try one out first. The
cables’ rental fee is in my opinion, a small price to pay to either
avoid or determine, just how well something might work in my gear.
Especially when the asking price is as tall an order as is the cost of
an
Elrod power cable.
The odd part of the discourse between
myself and the Cable Co. left me believing that I was receiving a
Signature II instead of the Signature III that I did in fact obtain. So
in my mind I was trying a Signature II…. Not a signature III. The
difference from the II to the III, is of some importance. The Sig III is
designed more for the higher current drawing evices. Amps. Bigger amps.
The Signature II is better suited to the lesser drawing items like the
preamps or smaller, less hungry amps.
In my haste to get a new
power cord and with timing being quite significant as well, a Signature
III came available in the used marketplace at the same time as the
rental. Well, “what to do?” go with a Sig III, never having heard it, or
stick it out and wait. I hate waiting. Almost as much as change. I took
the plunge. The buying idea took place during the listening interval of
the rental. Yet based in part on speculation, as I believed I was
hearing a Signature II at the time… not a Signature III, as was the
case.
To illuminate things I should say I am visually challenged.
I can not read the fine print these days. In fact, I can’t read most
printed text without additional aids. So I had no idea at the start
which cored I really had on loan. Talk about your blind testing.
Though
pre-owned, and the excruciating episode of breakin all but foregone,
the Signature III did take a few days to become noticed as a grateful
addition to my rig. Thin at first in resolving the musical elements, the
ability to add weight and ultimately form those elements in a way far
more natural could not be overlooked as time passed.
During the
‘rental’ period the purchased Sig III arrived. Super. Now there are two.
The purchased one was a twenty anp IEC terminated cord. The supposed
Sig II was a 15 amp IEC cord. Great. An adapter would be required if I
wanted complete flexibility with the cable. I ordered one right away
from the only resource I knew that supplied them, VooDoo Cable.
With
different IEC termination, the two cables were easy enough to keep
separted and identified. FYI, each elrod PC has a shiny label on the web
jacket covering the conductors. On this label is the model and serial
number. I never took the time to examine the labels or ask someone else
to take a look, for that matter. Until the day before it had to be
returned. Also on the Sig III lable is plainly printed, the word,
‘amplifier’.
The 20 amp version sat squarely attached to the
Hydra Two supplying the BAT amp, the 15 amp version got acquainted with
about every other item I could plug it into.
As the two elrods
were loosening up the change to the systems normal level of presentation
was improved upon in a few ways. Timbre specifically improved. Notes
were struck with the impact originally assigned to them. None lingered
or vanished inordinately. The whole of the sound was completely
coherent. As tight was the bass and mid bass, then so was the balance of
the remainder of the sonic register. The sound did not come across as
dry or lacking in musical sparkle, or involvement. It wasn’t splashy, or
extremely refined either. It simply sounded appropriate. Natural.
Real-er.
Every aspect of the presentation became much more
focused. Tight. Especially the lower end. At first I thought the lower
end of the scale was being diminished. Rolled off. It wasn’t. It didn’t
lose weight at all… just firmed up. That was different. A bit hard to
take at first, actually. I had become more accustomed to the prodigious
and bloomy bass I had in my system for such a long time prior to the Sig
III. After some little while though it was much more appealing. Change
isn’t always a bad thing, sometimes it’s far better. How one perceives
change is the ticket.
An increase in refinement, naturalness,
resolution, and delineation were the obvious results by addition of the
Sig III. Past that the sound stage grew laterally, and deepened. Walls
melted away. Dynamics on the whole were unchanged. As a firmer grip upon
the sound was evident, issues of sibalence were appreciably diminished
to those which are actual, and not additive. The sound was improving in a
way I’d not yet experienced, but one I was enjoying.
Before the
Elrod Sig III came to roost in my arrangement I really felt I had focus
to some good degree. I wasn’t hearing distortion or fuzziness. I felt
all was well and the sound was being represented and reproduced
intelligibly and appropriately. The Elrod Sig III got me to rethink that
whole notion and see it for something else. The realization greater
resolution can come without being deemed critical, strident, or sterile
was interesting. Finding the effects of the Sig III on my system was in
fact, fun. Once I adjusted to some of the changes, and saw the changes
as more the correct form for sound.
Having two in the rig and not
knowing which was which for a short time made me curious. I began after
a few days to swap them about here and there on different components.
Yeah, they say put the III here, and the II there. OK, I got it. Sorry,
listening to reason is not my strong suit. Regardless where I set the
two Elrods, I saw what I felt were improvements. On the preamp (s), amp,
and even the CD player. Things got better using it as a supply cord for
a power line filter. It just didn’t seem to matter where or what the
Elrod Sig III got plugged into. The results were always, improvement.
The
surprise in finding out that both cables were in fact Sig III versions
was startling but really, inconsequential. What I found was although
there may be some truth to the notion one particular Elrod power cable
is better suited to a particular application, I found an improvement in
refinement, sound staging, and a reality check on the music, was the
outcome.
The bulk of the cable is going to be for some, a
consideration. I did find in spite of it’s bulk and girth, it can be
bent, curled, rolled and manipulated about without the need for
wrestlers or weightlifters…. Or another pair of hands. The sheer weight
of a six foot cable will necessitate a need for some thinking before
adding it to certain items. I had to tie it off to the rack with string
when set to lightweight products. If not tied off it would just pull the
device off the shelf, or unplug itself and fall to the floor.
As an over the grand mark power cable, the question remains, “is it worth it’s retail price tag?”
Well
there is no doubt it is an immense improvement regarless where I placed
mine. It is surely built to last too. Strong steady and reliable. I did
eventually find in my rig it is best suited as a supply cord to the
power line filter providing current to my BAT VK500 sand amp, for two
reasons. One, it’s sheer weight and substantial size are conducive to
simply laying it on the floor. Two, the balance of the mix in my rig
point to that spot as it’s best fit for now. For a change of pace from
time to time, I will migrate it about the system though.
In all,
perhaps the statements can be said to be true about the Sig III being
suited more to the higher current settings. I did however find it works
in more places than just that one application.
My answer then is
yes, if the pockets are deep enough, and the desire great enough. It is
something to consider though before laying out the money in short order.
If it can be bought at more an advantage, the value escalates
enormously. I am very well pleased with it and it’s a keeper.
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