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A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords..

Here is my response                                                                                    
"Way back when the Pangea AC9 was introduced, I bought one. My first aftermarket powercord. I didn't think a powercord could make any difference! Put it on my Forte' 4 amp, and immediately noticed better bass response. I was hooked.Since then I have upgraded everything in my system, but I stick to Pangea power cords.Just last night, listening via Rudistor RPX-33mkII headamp and Sennheiser HD800 (bought from Audio Advisor) I was, beside listening to Deep Purple "Machine Head" checking out some new outlets. And the difference was easy to hear, via the Pangea AC14SE MKII Signature powercord. The Pangea powercrds ARE GREAT, no question. Thanks Pangea dude, for creating them, and thank you Audio Advisor, for offering them to the public. I now listen to my Magnepan 20.7s, Marantz SA-10, Conrad Johnson ACT2, Kuzma Stabi Stogi S turntable. ALL using Pangea powercords.My system is no slouch, neither are Pangea powercords.
If I were to offer one suggestion, Start a line of AC14SE, and AC9SEPangea with pure copper Rhodium plated plugs.and Cryo'ed.
Thanks in advance Pangea Dude! You are a HERO.to all of us who enjoy Pangea power cords."So.. any comments?
elizabeth
jhills
323 posts
 
And now it takes a $15K power cord to fix this? EMI/RFI is pretty easily and cheeply fixed, - that digital interference must be bad stuff.
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ivan_nosnibor
782 posts
 
No it doesn’t take $15k to fix digital. I have $600 ones that do a great job of that (although they are different in that they have passive digital filtering built in them), but, in the nose-bleed territory, as I understand it, it can come down to a cord design that can filter upstream, down and then also filter out its own noise...that, from what I can gather, is something of a holy grail of cord design...and no, it’s evidently not the same thing as ’coming up with a good braid’. Few designs actually ’filter themselves out’ of the equation. Don’t know anything about the one inna mentions, though.
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ivan_nosnibor
782 posts
 
I say in my above post that a cord that can filter itself out is ’something of a holy grail’ simply because if you can design a cord that filters out "ALL noise" (however you define that) downstream and all of it upstream, then all that will remain, is the noise that comes from the cord itself. Once you’ve solved that last step, you’ve (presumably) made an entirely "noise-free" cord. No noise can get in or out.
inna
5,245 posts
 
Anyone really interested can send a message to Jim Aud of Purist Audio or albertporter, Purist dealer on Audiogon. Jim usually replies the same day as if he had nothing better to do. Cost seems incredible, though it is not the most expensive power cord at all, but if it is really that great it's worth it, especially if you have top level equipment.
fleschler
766 posts
 
My GroverHuffman cables use an elaborate matrix of  to eliminate EMI/RFI.  They have a copper mesh sleeve over the wiring floating in an air dielectric which encased in teflon tube with vinyl over that.  The copper sleeve is dipped into an adhesive which contains powered carbon, nickel and tungsten.  There maybe an additional sleeve over that (I don't remember the differences between the Empress and Pharoah cabling exactly).  

Since the Empress cabling is $200 to $400, EMI/RFI are eliminated at a reasonable cost.
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