I decided to order one. Ditto my dealer. I've thoroughly loved the Transparent Opus and Opus Source power cords I have in my system...
Dear John,
I am really curious how you evaluate Shunyata and the new Transparent power cables and isolators
now. After all you spent some time with them.
I can see that you now have many Opus Power Cables and that talks for itself but still some of us are hungry for some details.
I am using Transparent Reference MM (the one before Opus) for signal cables and I love them. So musical and natural, I even feel like I taste the music with these cables.
I used Shunyata Sigma cables (with Triton) which are straight forward, very very good, competent cables. I also used old Gen IV Transparent power cables. They were very quite, meaty and nice but resolution and sound stage was not up to Shunyata standard.
I never listened to Gen V power cables.
My motive is to go with Gen V XL Transparent Power Cables (I need 7 cables so Opus is out of reach) and power isolators, on instinct. But Shunyata seems to be the rational choice.
So as a person who has experience with both cables and isolators, please give us some of your insight on these 2 seperate systems (including isolators).
Love and respect,
Cagdas