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  Cable Products > Plasma Power Cable Plasma Power Cable More Info Starting at just $69.95!  The xStream™ Plasma Power Cable is a high end power delivery system equally suited for both audio and video applications. It is designed to fit behind a plasma screen, easily attaches to the back of a power conditioner and keeps everything neat and tidy in your system with its unique right angle male connector. Any piece of gear in your system can benefit from the Plasma, whether it's a wall mounted plasma television, preamplifier, power amplifier or power conditioner. How many times have you simply hated the idea of the power cord jutting out from the wall? The Plasma Cable fills the need for a high end right angle male cord that easily fits behind any tight area, does not jut out from the wall and is neat and has awesome performance. The Plasma Cable is amongst our most affordable power cables yet - but it's no slouch when it comes to performance. Any audio or video equipment will benefit from the Plasma Cable’s double shielding and superior build quality. Double shielding causes reduced interference Double shielding of the Plasma Cable reduces line noise and helps improve black levels on plasmas, RPTV’s, LCD’s and DLP televisions while audio sources open up and have improved dynamics. By incorporating a heavy OFC 12 gauge copper conductor inside, the Plasma Cable will never restrict power to the audio or video system, thus helping maintain crystal clear quality, a bright picture or a huge soundstage. The Plasma Cable features our solid machined male and female prongs, removable ground pin, double shielding, ferrite impregnated outer jacket and 12 gauge OFC conductors. Active cleaning of the AC Power The xStream Plasma Cable has multiple shields to keep the noise from the powerline contained and unwanted radiation from entering the power stream. The Prelude and Plasma have both a silver plated braided shield and a foil shield plus a layer of conductive plastic. The xStream series can easily boast of having unparalleled shielding in a power delivery system.  Now for the Best Part The xStream Power Cables actually make the AC power cleaner than what comes out of the wall socket by providing active cleaning of the AC power with a ferrite impregnated outer jacket. Ferrite is a powdered iron material that you see on nearly every modern consumer electronic and computer equipment cable in the form of a small round slug of metal on the cable itself. This slug of metal is made from ferrite and the ferrite acts as a filter to reduce high frequency noise. Unfortunately, it’s a technique that doesn’t improve the sound or the picture. Yes, it reduces line noise, but in the process it constricts the dynamics of the system and is a less-than-proper design choice. On a computer we don't care but on our audio and video equipment, we do. There’s a Better Way By taking the ferrite slug and grinding it into a fine powder we can add this powdered ferrite into our jacket material and then extrude this material into the outer jacket itself. The net result is AC power traveling through our power cables is cleaned along its journey. This technique works so well that every xStream power cord employs ferrite powder, evenly distributed along the entire length of the outer jacket. This produces the world’s first distributed inductive shield that actively cleans high frequency noise on the AC line itself! This is a major achievement in the art of power cable delivery systems and results in the lowest noise floor yet of any power cord we know of. In a word, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!  Plasma Power Cables use our custom male and female connectorsVirtually every aftermarket high-end power cord uses a similar style of off-the-shelf male and female AC power connector. These off-the-shelf connectors find their way on cables as low as $50 to as high as many thousands of dollars and are considered state-of-the-art. But, are they state-of-the-art? Absolutely not. They are compromised when compared to a PS Audio power cable. Take a look at the way the plug and IEC connectors are made in this photo of a 'state-of-the-art' hospital grade aftermarket connector used on most high end power cords. Note the plug prong is a three-piece affair made from a piece of stamped metal (the IEC is constructed in the same manner). The three parts are the prong, the clamp cover and the screw. The prong and clamp are made from brass and the screw is constructed of steel. To build a high end power cord with these off-the-shelf connectors, you have to accept a compromised connection scheme: basically you insert the conductor into the clamp and tighten the steel screw is used to hold the conductor in place. The problem with this style of build is several fold: multiple pieces are prone to oxidation, corrosion and poor fit, and using a steel screw to pressure copper against the brass prong is not the best connection in the world. There are two other problems with this type of off-the-shelf connectors: loss of contact surface area where the holes in the prongs are and exposure to air with all the associated problems caused by humidity, pollution and oxidation. How we solved the problem To solve these problems PS engineering went to work designing an entirely new male and female connector  from the ground up.To address the issue of multiple pieces of stamped and dissimilar metals in the actual prong itself, we decided to machine our prongs out of a solid block of high copper content brass, and then polish both the female prongs and male prongs – and finally nickel plated the exposed male prongs. By machining the new prongs from a solid block of material, we were also able to resolve the dilemma of the unnecessary hole in the mating prong as well as the dissimilar metal problem. Even the female side of the PS power cable is revolutionary as well. So strong is the grip force of the PS power cable IEC female end that you can literally dangle a piece of equipment from the PS power cable without it falling. Cold and Hot Welding Once we had a single piece of machined metal with an appropriately sized hole to receive the cable’s conductor, it was time to do a better job of attaching the conductor to the connector. Traditional power cords use a steel screw tightened to hold the conductor against the prong; a method prone to oxidation and corrosion as well as loss of connectivity due to repeated twisting of the connector. The PS Plasma Cable and xStream series employs two forms of welding to fuse the conductor to the machined prong: cold and hot.  Cold welding exerts thousands of pounds of pressure supplied through the force of a hydraulic press to squeeze the two metals together such that the metal structure of the two pieces actually fuse together.To further insure a perfect connection, we then solder each of the machined prongs with high silver content solder in a hot welding technique that creates the perfect bond. Then they are hermetically sealed To address the issue of long term conductivity and eliminate problems such as oxidation, PS engineers designed an outer shell that is molded over the machined, cold and hot welded connectors. This molding process, which also incorporates a built in strain relief, will keep the outer elements away from the all-important fusion of the prongs to the conductors. Removable ground pin One of the coolest new innovations we came up with on the xStream and Plasma Power Cables is a removable ground pin. The ground pin on a power cable is there to tie the ground of the AC receptacle to your equipment. However, in some cases, this ground pin can cause a ground loop and cause hum in audio and horizontal interference bars in video. Instead of using a “cheater plug” to disconnect the third prong, PS engineers invented a better way: a  screw in ground pin. Normally, you would leave this alone. Should your system have a ground loop problem that is causing hum or buzz in the loudspeakers, simply unscrew the ground pin of the xStream and the buzz is gone! Putting it all together From the machined prongs hewn from a solid billet of material, to the cold and hot welding, over molded and hermetically sealed connectors, excellent shielding and finely stranded spirally wound conductors, the xStream™ Power Cables, will open your eyes and your ears with a level of improvement you probably never dreamed of. It's time to get the power delivery system in your home audio/video system right. Remember, if you don't get the power delivered to your equipment properly, then you will never take advantage of your investment in fine equipment. It's time to maximize your system and get it right. Get it connected and get it powered with PS! See your local PS dealer, give us a call or click on the purchase option to try out a PS Power Cable in your system today. It might just be the smartest thing you've ever done. |
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