I had this in mind for quite some time - may be months and it saw the light of the day today. The idea behind this AC power cable can be explained with my own previous experience and some analogy,
I had replaced my tube amplifier cheap stock power cable some 7 months back with an 18SWG single core copper wire with superb improvement. This made me think why such a small change like an power chord has such tremendous improvement in overall sound stage. The sound stage was huge with large improvement in the bottom-end. But i was not fully satisfied with the highs with these cables. After a while, i thought why can't power cables also be made like a 3 way speaker - like woofer - mid-range - tweeter. The low frequency requirement will be catered by a thicker gauge cable, the mid frequency by a medium gauge cable and the high frequency by a thinner gauge cable.
I also believe, the sound that we listen through our speakers are just modulation of the input line AC (later converted to DC) with an audio signal passing through an active component (transistor or a triode). Hence more pure or less stress on the AC line is required for faithfull reproduction of audio. The high frequency audio if draws current from the same single core wire has a harsh effect and so does the mid-range. So if we have parallel 3 AC wires (3 + 3 wires for line & neutral) for all the 3 bands of frequency then the current will be drawn based on the skin depth of the wire.
This made me do some math for the various frequency and the approximate skin depth required. I came up with 3 frequency band - 500Hz, 5000Hz and 20,000Hz and used the following wires for them. 500Hz will be catered by a 1 +1 14swg single core copper wire which gave me net of 11swg, 5000Hz will be catered by 18swg wire and the 20,000Hz will be catered by the 25swg wire. These three wires will be paralleled and the earth wire will be with an 2+2 18swg wire.
This activity took a hell lot of time to build as these wires are quite stiff and requires a lot of bending and holding to get it right. I could finally gather strength to terminate it to my AC power chord and terminate to the tube amp power input with the help of my daughter to hold them to solder the points (these are quite heavy and very very stiff). The enitre cable now has a diameter of around 1" which looks huge to me.
The cables are currently under breakin (if any required) and i listened to them briefly for an hour or so. The immediate response was very smooth mids and highs and removal of grain from the highs.
I may be totally wrong in my thought process and may be entirely wrong too, but i can for sure find a huge improvement from my earlier 18swg + 18swg AC power chord for which i cannot find any explanation.
PS: With my past year of modifications for improvement of sound quality, i have always noticed that any major improvement in components be it active or passive, there has always been a reduction in high frequency compression, high frequency grain and reduction in extra unnatural air from the music. I am not sure if that's the right observation / approach. Will like to listen from FMs about their own experience with the modifications/ improvements.
I had replaced my tube amplifier cheap stock power cable some 7 months back with an 18SWG single core copper wire with superb improvement. This made me think why such a small change like an power chord has such tremendous improvement in overall sound stage. The sound stage was huge with large improvement in the bottom-end. But i was not fully satisfied with the highs with these cables. After a while, i thought why can't power cables also be made like a 3 way speaker - like woofer - mid-range - tweeter. The low frequency requirement will be catered by a thicker gauge cable, the mid frequency by a medium gauge cable and the high frequency by a thinner gauge cable.
I also believe, the sound that we listen through our speakers are just modulation of the input line AC (later converted to DC) with an audio signal passing through an active component (transistor or a triode). Hence more pure or less stress on the AC line is required for faithfull reproduction of audio. The high frequency audio if draws current from the same single core wire has a harsh effect and so does the mid-range. So if we have parallel 3 AC wires (3 + 3 wires for line & neutral) for all the 3 bands of frequency then the current will be drawn based on the skin depth of the wire.
This made me do some math for the various frequency and the approximate skin depth required. I came up with 3 frequency band - 500Hz, 5000Hz and 20,000Hz and used the following wires for them. 500Hz will be catered by a 1 +1 14swg single core copper wire which gave me net of 11swg, 5000Hz will be catered by 18swg wire and the 20,000Hz will be catered by the 25swg wire. These three wires will be paralleled and the earth wire will be with an 2+2 18swg wire.
This activity took a hell lot of time to build as these wires are quite stiff and requires a lot of bending and holding to get it right. I could finally gather strength to terminate it to my AC power chord and terminate to the tube amp power input with the help of my daughter to hold them to solder the points (these are quite heavy and very very stiff). The enitre cable now has a diameter of around 1" which looks huge to me.
The cables are currently under breakin (if any required) and i listened to them briefly for an hour or so. The immediate response was very smooth mids and highs and removal of grain from the highs.
I may be totally wrong in my thought process and may be entirely wrong too, but i can for sure find a huge improvement from my earlier 18swg + 18swg AC power chord for which i cannot find any explanation.
PS: With my past year of modifications for improvement of sound quality, i have always noticed that any major improvement in components be it active or passive, there has always been a reduction in high frequency compression, high frequency grain and reduction in extra unnatural air from the music. I am not sure if that's the right observation / approach. Will like to listen from FMs about their own experience with the modifications/ improvements.
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