“In the high-end audio market we also get conditioned to spending exceeding large amounts of money for small incremental improvements in what we hear. not the case with Mapleshade products. What a pleasure it is to find the opposite to be true...spend very little for gigantic sonic improvements...(they) have a cost/value relationship that is off the charts.” – Chris


CLEARVIEW DOUBLE HELIX AC POWER CORD KITS

Because the Double Helix Speaker Cable came out sounding so good, we decided to adapt the design to an AC power cord. It worked like gangbusters! If anything, the power cord goes beyond our speaker cable in improving the sound of amplifiers. Turntables(!), CDs, DVDs, D/As, and power conditioners are helped even more by our power cord. We’ve further enhanced our cord’s sonics with an audibly better-than-standard AC plug produced to our specs.

The MK2 version of our AC Cord adds a pair of “outrigger” ground wires that run parallel to the Double Helix power conductors (about 6" to the left and right of the power wires). The MK2 has noticeably better dynamics, more bass weight, more warmth, and even cleaner treble than the MK1 AC Cord. The MK2’s modest extra cost is an excellent sonic investment.

Any good CD player, amp, turntable, or recorder could be great-sounding with a first-rate AC cord. No dice if the piece doesn’t have a removable cord. Since this comes up so often, we’ve developed a kit to change your cord easily—without diving into the bowels of your gear wielding a soldering iron. Couldn’t be simpler: just get a Clearview Power Cord Kit. It comes with prepared and marked bare wire ends plus insulated copper butt splices that you simply squeeze on with pliers—no soldering. Just cut your component’s captive cord 3" from the box and scrape bare the conductors at the cut end, slip on the butt splices, and squeeze. By the way, it’ll sound better than if you’d paid somebody $100 to hard-wire in an IEC jack. The add-on IEC jack and mating plug just add a lot of unnecessary dielectric that hurts performance.