Snake River Audio Cottonmouth Gold "AMP" Series Power Cord

We custom-build our Cottonmouth Gold power cables using our 24k gold/red copper conductor, and our own US/IEC connectors

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AMP SERIES
All types of audio gear out there will benefit greatly from our power cables. Simply try one in your own system, and you'll be amazed at the difference one can make. But having the right cable for your equipment is important. Servers, DACs, transports, phono stages, and even preamps typically don't need much juice to operate at their full potential, and tend to be pretty consistent in the amount of power they use. However, big power hungry amplifiers can be a different story. Some music may have your amp running along pretty evenly, while other highly dynamic music, especially at louder levels, can have your amplifier gulping for more power. Using a power cable with smaller guage conductors can limit the surge of power your amplifier is provided, limiting it's full potential. Think of swimming. If you're just floating and not exerting (needing) much energy, you'll be fine breathing through a drinking straw. However, if you are putting out a lot of dynamic motion, swimming hard, that little drinking straw won't quite cut it.

This is where we developed the "Amp Series" of power cables. With heavier gauge conductors (67% more precious metal per inch), our "Amp Series" power cables provide your amplifier with a big wide open pipe to breathe through. This allows your amp to perform at it's full potential without being choked out for more juice. Made in both the Cottonmouth Gold and Signature Series recipes, the "Amp Series" cables are definitely meaty, weighing quite a bit more than the standard models.

 

RECIPE - GOLD
Any precious metal used in your system's cables, or anywhere else actually, will have an effect on your music. The tonality, clarity, dimension, as well as many other factors, can all be greatly affected by which metals are used, as well as the quality of those metals. For example, silver is a very fast metal, with the lowest impedence rating of all precious metal used in audio today. The effect silver can have on music is to enhance the speed and clarity of what's being played. Details become crisper, soundstage can gain depth. Meanwhile, gold and copper can affect the richness and character of the music. A full room-filling boldness, musicality and smoothness, as well as a wide soundstage. Some have said that silver is lean and clean, while gold is rich and lush.

For our Cottonmouth Gold series of cables, we only use pure 24k gold, overlaid a minimum of 80 microinches onto pure oxygen-free, high-density red copper. This ensures that you are getting the absolute best quality materials your music deserves.

Best for: Lean-sounding digital and solid state systems that could benefit from the warmth and musicality that 24k gold provides. Brings that "non-fatigue-ing" factor into play, and lets you listen to music for hours, not minutes. - Not recommended for systems that are already really warm and heavy, as these might make them too lush.

DESIGN - EDDIE TWIST
The "Eddie Twist" (named after our beloved headphone-wearing snake mascot) method of our speaker and power cables takes advantage of, and maximizes the effects of two principles, dielectric and surface area or skin effect. By maximizing the surface area of our conductors, we greatly reduce the opposing eddy currents an A/C signal can create. But wait? How can you maximize surface area? There's only so much surface to be had, right? Well, we looked at traditional methods of wire stranding, and realized there was a simple way to do this. However, it's very time and resource consuming, and ends up utilizing more precious metal wiring.. which is likely why the mass-production cables aren't done this way. Take a look at the pictures below.


Most multiple strands cables are simply twisted all together at the same time. The end result is a very tightly woven group of conductors with much of their surface area actually touching each other. Our "Eddie Twist" method twists only one pair of conductors at a time. Then the pairs are twisted together, which gives you a cross-section that shows a much greater amount of surface area, touching nothing else.


Now, let's talk about dielectric. To simplify, a dielectric is a non-conductive material that's used around and between your wires, to keep them from touching each other and shorting out. The problem, is that most non-conductive dielectric materials out there also absorb electrons, ie your music signal. Spread that dielectric all the way down the length of your cables, and that could be a problem. It's common knowledge that the absolute best dielectric possible.. is air. Just plain old air. If you could run bare wires from your amp to your speakers, with no dielectric at all, that would be the best scenario in regards to dielectics. However, that's really not feasible.

However, we designed a method to take advantage of our Eddie Twist configuration, and create a whopping 85%+ air dielectric in our cables. Think of a triangle, inside of a circle. Now make that circle slightly larger, and only two points of that triangle will ever be touching the circle at any one time. The rest of that triangle.. is open to the air.





The principles of dielectrics and skin effect can be (and are) argued constantly on internet forums and chats. Our approach is simple. There's an old saying that says, "the proof is in the pudding". We simply invite you try our cables, and pit them against any other product out there. We are very confident in what we do. Over the years, we've had many skeptics of these principles, who have not only come back to us admitting that we're on to something.. but then backed it up by purchasing second, third, or fourth cables.

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