Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?

Whipple Blower (supercharger) kits. My Chevy small block 350 V8 runs fine without one, but better with.

No power cords at all is the bees knees! 🐝 I hopped off the grid four years ago and never looked back. 👀

thyname,

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You are beyond insightful.

I have tried numerous power cables including AudioQuest, ESP, Shunyata and a few others on the Aesthetix Mimas integrated amplifier and none of them were any better than the stock power cord from Aesthetix. In fact, they all negatively impacted the sound.

On other components like the Ayre Codex, Ayre AX-7e and the Ayre EX-8 the AQ Hurricane offered a big improvement over the stock cord. The impact on the DAC was the most notable. I think the only way to be sure is to try it in your system.  Good Luck!

+1 dodgealum, same with my LTA UL, but as you stated, I think this has to do with the Berning design. Folks at LTA tell me they don’t hear differences and they demo on Daedalus and Spatial. However, on other amps I’ve owned and own, improvements abound.