What power cord are you using on your Vandy 5A's

Stock on the left, stock + long walmart special extension cord on the right, can't detect any difference this makes to sound.

Thanks for the responses.

George

well, my experience differ's from those above. My closest audio pal has Vandersteen 5a's, and I am very famaliar with the various changes to his system over the years. I think the Ac cord can really help the overall soundstage, not just bass soundstaging when the Vandies are set up well to do so (ie room treatments, set up out into the room, away from walls, no tv's or equip racks inbetween......)

2 Ac cords that really soundstage in the bass regions (ie the bass doesn't emit from the speakers, or the center stage ie mono bass, but rather from where the bass player/players/section is/are in the ensemble as recorded). With a Tg Audio SLVR on the 5a's if a symphonie has the double basses off to the far right outside the right speaker, and they curl around to toward the center stage behind the cello's or viol's then that's where you here them - both as single players and as a section... Same for the Elrod Signature cords. I personally liked the Tg better for soundstage focus of the deep bass and the hall info that comes from well reproduced deep bass(rear hall, side walls as well as dynamics and soundstage size increase from well done deep bass), but listen for yourself. Even upgrading from the stock cords to the Asylum recipe AC cord was an upgrade to his stock cords on the 5A's, that is what convinced him to seek better cords for the Vandersteen Amps.

But then again, set up is everything, as is your system's synergy as a whole (and Ac polarity, and recording polarity as well). Your Source, preamp, and amp/speaker interface with the room, all have to in concert with each other, have these abilities to hear these differences - the Ac cords/system cabling alone do not perform miracles on gear that doesn't have these abilities or priorities; they help but do not make it "all" happen.

Monk - Blind test, or did you know which cables you were listening to?

Monk, I am very curious about the differences you heard with power cords on the 5As. While I agree that the setup, room, and overall system synergy is important, I have not been able to detect anything similar to what you report.

One possible difference is that I have separate dedicated lines to each component, including each 5A, and the 4 lines leading to the source components are on a 4kva iso transformer. I believe this may reduce the sensitivity to the AC cords, but I have no absolute proof of that.

Also, I have read studies that show the ear is not capable of resolving the location of bass frequencies below 40 Hz. That would mean that much of the location dependencies you are hearing are in the upper bass or in the bass harmonics. So there could be a relationship with the primary amp as well.

Since there are two identical subs, why not try one with a stock cord and one with an aftermarket cord, play music in mono, and alternate between channels to evaluate any difference? I will give this a try myself.