[From the Spintricity Archives several years ago. Note that Elrod has upgraded their power cords, adding more resolution while keeping the natural openness and dynamic ease which is their house sound].
‘Shootout at the Powercord Corral’,’
Elrod versus Acrolink versus Valhalla versus ODIN
We listened to these power cords in various combinations on a simple, very high-quality system […]

In this corner, weighing in at about 200 lbs [well, that is what it FEELS like - leaning over to get this on a rack is no feat for the timid. Neli was able to do it, but not without a few remarks ], but really at 68.4 lbs, the Esoteric K-01. And in […]

A few photos of the newish mediumish-priced ELROD Statement Silver power cable.

Old timers will notice how both ends are much more that the Elrod power cords of old.
Yipee!
These help eliminate those back-of-rack embarrassments where power cords start dictating to the components what angles they must sit at.
These sound like the old […]

[Crossfitness is all the rage in fitness land. It consists of highly varied workouts done at warp speed (as quickly as possible) and focus on exercises that are actually useful in the real world. WOD stands for Workout Of the Day].
1. Big Amp Pump: Lift 90lb. Audio Note Ongaku. Take 2 steps forward. Put it […]

We did a shootout, oh, well over a year ago now, comparing power-strips and this adapter here:

IEC Adapter
This adapter allows you to plug in one audiophile power cord into another. In our tests we plugged an Nordost Odin PC into an Elrod PC - the length of the Odin PC not being sufficient. This […]

I thought it might be useful to list some systems that I found drug-like, and you are invited to as well, and see if there are some commonalities.
If there are commonalities, then we should be able to retrofit existing systems so that they, too, can have that little extra mind altering something that is […]

SOUND.
The first thing we did was to hook up the player to the Edge NL Reference ‘pyramid’ amplifiers.

We noticed several things. That the sound was warmer and more approachable than it had been with the solid-state Emm Labs player [more on this shortly]. We also noticed a high noise floor between notes. We thought […]

In one corner, weighing in at…
This shootout is primarily focused on Jorma Design cables. We compare and contrast their cables with their other cables, at different price points, as well as with the correspondingly priced Nordost cables.
This is another shootout that went on and on and just would not end [kind of like real […]

Put up some photos David Elrod sent us. Nice!
They are several pages of photos here: Elrod Statement Powercords and Interconnects
We just got a sample case yesterday - hope to have some initial feedback soon.
This just MUST be power cord season - first the ODIN, then we finally get our Prana Wire Satori, and now […]

Not only is there a part II that is to be posted on the magazine in the next few days, a continuation of the Shootout at the Powercord Corral [a name which is an unfortunate side-effect of living in cattle country ] - but we also got the Prana Wire Satori, and soon an […]