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Oyaide Cables

Information on this cable brand was showing up in another thread, which is fine, but I figured this cable line deserves it's own thread.  I have very little experience with the brand so far as I have only had the Black Mamba V2 PC  in my system for about 200 plus hours and just installed the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 PC last night.  I only need one PC for my system at this time as my Integrated amp has a DAC and my music streamer doesn't take after market PCs.    Firstly, the Black Mamba V2 PC is excellent.  I know audio is very system dependent, but in my system the BM V2 was the best PC I have had, it really made a noticeable difference.  It kind of gives you the  best of both words, good clarity and extension but at the same time the system is relaxed and natural sounding.  Very important if you have a lot of rock and pop and poorly produced material in your music collection.   The Tsunami GPX-R V2 PC improves upon the BM V2 in that the air and spacing is better, the stage is deeper and wider,  and the bass is still tight, but thicker.   I am thrilled with these PCs so I ordered the Tunami Nigo V2 speaker cables and those should be here soon.  I am very happen with the Western Electric 14 GA, but after hearing how good their PCs are, I just had to give the Oyaide SC a try.     Anyway, bottom line is I suspect it would be very hard to find a line of cables that sound this good at such affordable prices.  A Big thanks to Wig for letting me know about these PCs and Speaker cables and guiding me along.  
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tuffy72561
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lak,

   Thank you so much for following up with the power cable comparison. Sorry to hear about the Deep Core issues you and others had. Get some new Blue Fuses out of it. I will order one of the SO22N PC's today from Mike Kay. Mike is a great guy and I have been to his house to listen to the Tekton DI SE's. I ordered one  a SO22N from him and then he ran out of stock on the connectors, I think. When he got them back in stock I had just lost my job. So now I think I will try an SO22N configured by him. I want to try one Matrix PC in the very near future but have to apply my dollars towards a new DAC. Probably purchasing the LKS dh ma004  next week and getting modded by Ric Schultz of EVS. I have also purchased a demo model of a new model IC from TEO called the Game Changer Ultra on its way to me and I will report back hopefully in a week or two on my impressions of it in the TEO thread. This is a notch or two above the Game Changer II I am being told. 
t_ramey
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Just an FYI in case there are those that were curious like I was about the factory terminated Black Mamba v2 power cables. I messaged one of Oyaide's customer service reps and they do indeed connect the shield to ground on the ac plug only and not on the iec plug. 
tomg95123
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@ t_ramey - you are spot-on about the cable to the power conditioner. I assembled a 2m BM cable with Oyaide P/C-004 plug & IEC this past Saturday morning, intending to replace the old Signal Cable pc on the dac. No break-in time and the confused, incoherent sound from the dac led me to move it to the PSA power plant (also connected by an old Signal Cable pc) instead. Greater current flow over the course of the day and maybe-just-maybe I'd have a decent listen by the evening. That was Saturday morning. By 9PM Saturday nite with the new cable still on the conditioner, the soundstage had deepened considerably and had become more 3D with a richer, fuller, more fleshed-out tone. Guitar strings shimmered like they're supposed to, cymbals had a nice "taaang" to them, Louis Armstrong was in the room and there was a disparity among the recordings like there should be. I lost some deep thump in the drums, but that may yet return. Stayed up and annoyed the neighbors until past midnight. I think that cable may just stay on the power plant for a while longer.
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celander
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Anyone have experience with cooking the Oyaide PC’s with products like the audiodharma cable cooker? Thoughts? 
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lak
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Yes, I have and used my Audiodharma Cable Cooker on my Oyaide power cords and well as other brands of power cords, speaker cables, interconnects, digital cables, AC outlets etc, but not on the brands that state not to, there are a few of them out there.
Worked quite well and saved me a heck of a lot of time during the break-in process. Does one need to use a cable cooker, heck no, lots of guys I know prefer to list to the changes as the new product breaks in. Others say its voodoo and break-in doesn't take place.
Me, I believe my ears and break-in is a necessity.
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