Shunyata Research
PowerSnakes Diamondback AC Cable

The PowerSnakes Diamondback has been engineered to deliver exceptional performance and value with the widest possible variety of electronics. The Diamondback possesses a natural, organic tonal character and presents sound and visuals with incredible depth, dimension and background silence. This cable engages the pace, rhythm and timing elements in sound that are pivotal to musical involvement. A complete system of Diamondback's creates a synergy that outstrips the performance of far more expensive power-systems. This cable will amaze you with its abilities, and surprise you with its price!

From tip to tip, the Diamondback is a fully custom made cable, designed from scratch to establish a new benchmark for cost-effective AC cables.

Features include:

• Proprietary, ultra-heavy gold/copper alloy plating (up to 20 times thicker than found on other connectors) is used on all contact surfaces.

• Massive 12 gauge conductors (made from cryogenically treated copper) are hand crimped and soldered to solid (not folded) brass contacts

• A 100% foil shield (similar to that on the Company's much more expensive Taipan) effectively rejects EMI/RFI, resulting in a particularly quiet background.

• Halcro Electronics, of Australia, has chosen to OEM the PowerSnakes Diamondback, packaging it with their incredible amplifiers and pre-amplifiers.

• Price $199.00

When you examine the list of features and the top drawer parts employed in the Diamondback, it's hard to see how Shunyata was able to keep the cost so reasonable. I'm not really sure how they did it, but question not. Rather, just buy plenty before they realized they've under priced these suckers and double the price!

Recommended Applications: The Diamondback < Mamba />was designed to be a universal cable that would perform well in most any application. Try it on any component and you'll hear significant improvements in refinement and resolution compared to stock AC cables.

 Interested? You should be. I highly recommend that you give PowerSnakes a listen. If they do for your system what they did for mine, you’ll want a den of snakes for your very own. Caelin tells me PowerSnakes are not poisonous, but beware. They bit me and instant paralysis ensued - hours went by before I was able to move from my listening chair!

Shunyata Diamondback

Here are just a few of the comments we've received from satisfied PowerSnakes customers:

"Thanks for carrying these cables. The difference was IMMEDIATE and DEMONSTRABLE!!!! Holy cow!!! I have read all the reviews, and for years, have tried every tweak. NONE have made the difference in my system that the power cables have. I will be also buying the Hydra 2 soon, after I have given the cables a chance to break in. Manufacturers must be crying in their hands because these cables are going to prevent allot of upgrades. I have a Golden Tube audio preamp, a Micromega Stage 2 CD player,  an Adcom 555 power amp and Thiel speakers. I was about to buy new equipment, and probably will, but not until I have experienced what good power can do for my current system. I am in love with listening to music again, thanks to you and the cables".
- M.C.

"After three days of break-in, I put the Diamondback on my Rega CD player; Wow - sounds like I'm spinning vinyl!"
- B.H.

" My Python cable arrived today. Even though the Python was intended for my Sony SCD-1 SACD player, I plugged it into my amp for break-in purposes. WOW!!! An instant, VERY significant level of improvement in my system's sound quality. It will take an army, and then some, to get this thing off my amp - unreal improvement!!! And the break-in has just started!"
- Ken S.

"I have 9 pythons and a Hydra in my audio/home theatre system and I don't  have to tell you how awesome it sounds.... You have a customer for life."  
- Dan M.

"I installed the PowerSnakes after 100 hours of burn in. I must say its improvement over my old Synergistic research cables is much more than I imagined.  At moments, CD playback felt almost like listening to LPs with super dynamic range and no background noise. The differences they wrought seem greater than the improvements of SACD over CDs".

"What they do to the sound is foundational and monumental. A lot of people laughed when I told them I was buying power cords that cost as much as my CD player, amplifier, or speakers.  I have not heard super-expensive players that wrought this amount of improvement over the Meridian.  In that way, the PowerSnakes are really paradoxical and comical in the way they twist traditional hi-fi wisdom on its head. Perhaps 50 years ago, hi-fi systems sounded much better, without the amount of RFI and EMI generated today, requiring a measure as drastic as the King Cobra to remove".
-Prof. K. T., Ph.D
Dept. of Musicology and Composition

"By the way, the King Cobra is a truly remarkable product. Do you know that when I plugged it in the wall, the TV ( which is on another side ) suddenly had much deeper colors and sharper contrast. I know this may sound like I am losing my sanity, but it is actually true. Now the sound coming out of those dear B & W's got very full - I demonstrated Sarah Brightman's "Phantom of The Opera" for friends.  It is quite a sensational cord, now I am glad I got this instead of the Electraglide - which I almost purchased.  The problem is - if one raves too much about a " power cord ",  people will just call it hyperbole and think the brain has had too much Espresso caf�. This is, however, the first product I have used, where the hype is running far below  its performance.  I still don't understand how one product, the KC, can be soooo much better than the others in it's class.  I wish I understood the technical logic. If the patent number is available, I'd like to read it".
- E. Thomas

"The cords arrived today, as did my BASS, QUIETNESS, and DETAIL.  After all the hyperbole about power cords and such, it is amazing the difference these have made out of the box.  I have the Mamba going to the Plinius, which now has oodles of bass, and the Black Mamba going to the BAT Vk5i preamp, because the 360s DAC needs a right angle connector to plug into it's base.  I am even considering asking you to check with the maker to see if he can create a Black Mamba with a right angle connector, just because of the incredible quietness.  Honestly Galen, since I plugged the Plinius in as a replacement for the Sunfire, I have never heard such an immediate change in the complete sound
of the system.  This is the first time that the von Schweikert 4.5's have done all that they can do from top to bottom, which I now realize is more than I have ever heard.   These are THAT GOOD to pay the price.  I only wish that I could afford the upper end cords, which would be nice to hear that difference.  If you, or Shunyata, ever want testimonials, I would love to kick in a small paragraph!

Thanks for upgrading my whole system".
- Tom P.

"This stuff amazes me!"
- Greg M.

Reviews

Review on Six Moons