frenchmon
03-18-2012, 08:23 AM
I have had the pleasure of having 4 after market power cords in my system.
The first power cord was the Pangea AC-9SE. After instalation I noticed a great improvement in my system. Blacker back ground, instruments sounded more controlled and defined. System seemed to play louder. It was a very good improvement.
The next power cord was the Pangea AC-14S I got from a friend here at AA who was happy to part with it after I told him I had ordered one from my dealer. After receiving it in the mail, I tried it on my Tubed preamp and it was just awful! It set the sound stage slightly off to the right and it just didn't sound good at all on the preamp...very bad synergy. So I decided to try it on my MF XRAYv8's XXX external power supply. Right away I noticed a darker back ground with this cord as well. Pangea has a way of sucking the noise out of the back ground that you really dont notice untill its gone. I was really not all that satified with anything else about that cord. So I got online and read a few reviews that said after about 2 or 3 hundred hours the music will improve. So I left it alone and after some time it did improve. Sounded much better than the stock cord on the MF XXX power supply. So it was a keeper.
So having ordered the Pangea from my dealer, before I was gifted the same cord by LeRoy, and having been given a tip by LeRoy that the Wire World Cords are great, I quickly called my dealer and asked if he could cancel the Pangea and ordre a Wire World Aurora™ 52 instead. He complied and I recieved the Wire world Aurora™ 52 a few days later. Very excited to listen how it would sound, I quickly installed the cord and had ear bleed. The Aurora™ 52 was silver which introduced brightness into my system. I knew it was silver before I purchased it but did not think about the fact that Canton speakers are not a boring speaker but a lively speaker and Vincent a tubed preamp, is not a syrupy sweet tubed preamp like a Conrad Johnson but more like a ARC tubed sound...full of life. So the brightness of the silver pushed it over the top. I quickly made a phone call to my dealer to exchange for the next power cord up in the Wire World chain which was the Electra™ 52 which is in the Reference level of their power cables.
Upon arrival and installation....this cable dropped me to my listening chair with amazement. It was even better than the Pangea AC-9SE! Just when you thought your preamp was performing at its peak level, you get even more tubed goodness...the Vincent SA-T1 is now performing like it was holding back up till this time! the Electra™ 52 sucked out more noise out of the back ground as the Pangea and gave me a great sound stage, but unlike the Pangea's, it gave a rich warmness in the mid range. Instruments are more defined and set in it own space. Better slam and even greater decay, instruments having no hard edges but very good smoothness. Detail is great but not like good defined detail thats sterile. The Electra™ 52 has a certain romance and passion to its presentation that is very good with violins and simple brush stroke on drums...they have a rich warm tone to them and the slightest cymbal tap even has a natural tone and plushness to them. This is truly a great cable that has great synergy in my system!
At the same time when I picked up the Electra™ 52 from my dealer, I borrowed his demo Grado phono amp as well. This thing combined with the Electra™ 52 makes a outstanding pair. They have great synergy together... The Grado adds a certain rhythmic romantic touch as well and when both the Electra™ 52 and Grado are running through tubes, music just swings with foot tapping enjoyable passion. Not analyzing anything but enjoying and taking it all in. The Grado has the swing in the bottom end as well as the seductive mid section....at least in my system. But this thread is about the Wire World Electra™ 52...so just in case some one is contemplating power cords, and you want to add a little reference fidelity and a little warmth to your experience in the mid ranges, you may want to consider the Wire World Electra™ 52
The first power cord was the Pangea AC-9SE. After instalation I noticed a great improvement in my system. Blacker back ground, instruments sounded more controlled and defined. System seemed to play louder. It was a very good improvement.
The next power cord was the Pangea AC-14S I got from a friend here at AA who was happy to part with it after I told him I had ordered one from my dealer. After receiving it in the mail, I tried it on my Tubed preamp and it was just awful! It set the sound stage slightly off to the right and it just didn't sound good at all on the preamp...very bad synergy. So I decided to try it on my MF XRAYv8's XXX external power supply. Right away I noticed a darker back ground with this cord as well. Pangea has a way of sucking the noise out of the back ground that you really dont notice untill its gone. I was really not all that satified with anything else about that cord. So I got online and read a few reviews that said after about 2 or 3 hundred hours the music will improve. So I left it alone and after some time it did improve. Sounded much better than the stock cord on the MF XXX power supply. So it was a keeper.
So having ordered the Pangea from my dealer, before I was gifted the same cord by LeRoy, and having been given a tip by LeRoy that the Wire World Cords are great, I quickly called my dealer and asked if he could cancel the Pangea and ordre a Wire World Aurora™ 52 instead. He complied and I recieved the Wire world Aurora™ 52 a few days later. Very excited to listen how it would sound, I quickly installed the cord and had ear bleed. The Aurora™ 52 was silver which introduced brightness into my system. I knew it was silver before I purchased it but did not think about the fact that Canton speakers are not a boring speaker but a lively speaker and Vincent a tubed preamp, is not a syrupy sweet tubed preamp like a Conrad Johnson but more like a ARC tubed sound...full of life. So the brightness of the silver pushed it over the top. I quickly made a phone call to my dealer to exchange for the next power cord up in the Wire World chain which was the Electra™ 52 which is in the Reference level of their power cables.
Upon arrival and installation....this cable dropped me to my listening chair with amazement. It was even better than the Pangea AC-9SE! Just when you thought your preamp was performing at its peak level, you get even more tubed goodness...the Vincent SA-T1 is now performing like it was holding back up till this time! the Electra™ 52 sucked out more noise out of the back ground as the Pangea and gave me a great sound stage, but unlike the Pangea's, it gave a rich warmness in the mid range. Instruments are more defined and set in it own space. Better slam and even greater decay, instruments having no hard edges but very good smoothness. Detail is great but not like good defined detail thats sterile. The Electra™ 52 has a certain romance and passion to its presentation that is very good with violins and simple brush stroke on drums...they have a rich warm tone to them and the slightest cymbal tap even has a natural tone and plushness to them. This is truly a great cable that has great synergy in my system!
At the same time when I picked up the Electra™ 52 from my dealer, I borrowed his demo Grado phono amp as well. This thing combined with the Electra™ 52 makes a outstanding pair. They have great synergy together... The Grado adds a certain rhythmic romantic touch as well and when both the Electra™ 52 and Grado are running through tubes, music just swings with foot tapping enjoyable passion. Not analyzing anything but enjoying and taking it all in. The Grado has the swing in the bottom end as well as the seductive mid section....at least in my system. But this thread is about the Wire World Electra™ 52...so just in case some one is contemplating power cords, and you want to add a little reference fidelity and a little warmth to your experience in the mid ranges, you may want to consider the Wire World Electra™ 52