DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more....

Reggy sorry iam late answering your question, with Ares the better the power cord , the better it will sound, When Iam using my audio magic $49 pc it did sound good, when I tried Kimber Pk 10 And Marigo ultrA  I was shocked it sounded almost very very close to Terminator I listen at Axpona, the smoothness, the black background , 3D , slam, palpability all showed up.My guest Audioquest NRG model will make this Dac even sound better, It’s worth spending to get good pc for the Ares...you will be surprise ,how good this DAC with good pc...

Reggy any pc you will connect on Ares give time until it settle down 3 days minimum , maximum 6 days....be patient this Is an amazing DAC , I was about to buy the Yaggy when I heard the Ares I forgot about the Yaggy...maybe someday I will buy a used yaggy...not now...the Ares and my Gumby using good pc , they perform at their best....

Good ic for this DAC will even pay off, iam using TEO GC....,

Iam also using digital cable Kimber D60 with HF adapters....

Ok thanks, I'll take a look into those, so where power cables matter the most is in the DAC right? Just to let you know, I'm not looking into lowering the noise floor so to speak although if it does that for the DAC and the music it outputs and overall clarity then that's great. I'm more interested in providing more dynamics and contrast within the music itself from the DAC doing it's job.

To let you know my active studio monitors (Genelec 8040B) are the ones I am using, I just checked and surprise surprise they came with QP-007 C13 18 SVT, SVT Shielded, SJT, SJT Shielded, SJTW, SJTW Shielded flexible AWG power cables each. http://productspec.ul.com/canada/document.php?id=ELBZ7.E183417
Made by QUEEN PUO ELECTRICAL CO LTD in Tawan.

Now I'm deviating a bit now - From an average person these speakers rock, for an audiophile in the music industry they are mid grade speakers, good none the less.
When I turn the speakers on with only the power cords connected they have a particularly low noise floor to my ears, obviously if I put my ear to the cones at about 2 ft I begin to hear the static albeit perfectly fine.

So already my speakers have generic power cables. To upgrade the DAC's PC and not the speakers would not defeat the purpose right?

So thanks for the recommendations and I'll do my research and perhaps take them up for the future, all that I'm skeptical about is, will I really hear a difference in my setup? I certainly won't be in the business of replacing the power cords for my speakers and I am just wondering in my mind will the only power cord replacement be worthy for the DAC? If so that's great. But if it is about being all OCD about certain components of my system, and given the fact that the Genelec's are to be robust in many listening environments the conclusion might be that other audiophile setups will be particular sensitive to the DAC, unlike mine and will show to make a larger impact on hearing the performance of the cable. 

It's all relative, I think my speakers I great, but if your setup is a mile ahead than I believe you would be able to hear more of a difference than mine. 

So in the end my question was other than noise floor of the speakers, what overall differences could I potentially hear, and if I could still hear them if I decide to (keep no matter what) the generic power cables connected to the Genelecs?