Longer Power Cords Sound better?

No problem, Grant (BTW, my name is Alex, I'm located in metro DC, and you and I have spoken by phone in the past, if that helps in any way). I appreciate your caveats about the time and place Caelin made his recommendation. But I can't fail to note that your spirited defense of what I thought was a pretty trivial comment is taking place here, today, among overwhelmingly power cord "believers", as Tplavas puts it (personally, I think we're considerably past the stage of "belief" or "non-belief" among people who've actually done the critical listening). In this context, in a discussion not without some real controversy concerning whether longer PC's actually do sound better than shorter ones, I don't think it's being too critical or unfair to state the obvious: That recommending a minimum length of 3 ft., when that's the shortest PC's come anyway, and cautioning about why 2 ft. is impractical when everybody knows this, simply isn't saying much of anything. But I apologize for seeming a bit cynical; of course I realize that Shunyata still needs to sell 3 ft. cords same as everybody else in the biz -- if you went too strongly the other way, I guess people would just accuse you of trying to get us to spend more on longer cords! I understand that you and Caelin fundamentally concur with the assertion at hand, and that you came on the thread to lend whatever credibility you could to that stance, so I hope we can just 'agree to agree', as it were, about the larger point here and move on.

This is basically hogwash.

Thanks Alex,

Regarding 1meter or less, we get at least 2 dozen direct queries (phone calls) a year for one-meter or less PC's, maybe half of which are asking after less than one meter.

These phone or e-mail queries are all directed to me and I do my level best to inform, not dissuade the purchase of a 1m PC. We will not make a shorter length, but I am aware of companies that will, and do.

There is a growing contingent of "I don't want my wife or I to see any cable" customers. They are out there and I hear from some of them. There is no great savings btw a 1m and a 1.8m power cord as most of the labor is in the terminations, so when I explain, most understand, other than those concerned more with aesthetics. Stll, we made over 900 1m power cords last year, so there are those that just order them outright, and have them. I'm guessing, but I'd predict most of those 1m sales were overseas.

Regards,

Mr Hogwash.

Thank you for the constructive remark BOJACK. Are you planning to share somefirst hand experience with us?

I dunno, Bojack could have meant that my little dialectic was hogwash rather than the topic of long power cords, guess I couldn't blame him if he did...

Grant: I have one 1m and a few 1.8m Sidewinders, and although the shorter cord hasn't sounded better to me, as I might have vaguely thought it somehow ought to, I've never done a rigorous comparison to try and find out (in part because recently I've only used the Sidewinders for my tube monoblocks, and figured both amps should get the same length cords). But I might extend the test to the Sidewinders just for yucks, depending on what I observe with my newer 1.5m vs. 2.5m cords.