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Power cords at ridiculous prices?

Seems to me there's no shortage of "black magic" out there, people spending $1000 on power cords? If the equipment you own is well designed with hefty power supplies and adequate capacitive filtering on-board, the grunge from the AC lines will be dealt with. I'm not discounting upgrading stock cords with something of a little better quality, but it seems to me spending the equivalent of a mortgage payment, on a piece of wire, makes us audiophiles the subject of ridicule by any reasonable person. Okay, I'll stand back now and take my lumps....
jeffloistarca
mikirob
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ebm,
The joke might be on you. It's likely the recordings you listen to came from a mike attached to a  Belden 8402 microphone cable through to a recording studio that used it or Mogami to lay it all down. Plus there are an awful of folks in the audiophile world better qualified than you using it as well as recording professionals and musicians. Best, Rob

mikirob
955 posts
 
"Awful lot of folks" instead of above.

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rja
2,374 posts
 
Power cords at ridiculous prices?
If you have the money and want them, knock yourself out.
That’s what I call free market economy.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
I went the route less traveled. I don't use power cords.  I don't use house AC power. 
pops
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I hear you Mikirob but does that really matter?  The way I see it power cables and other components bring whatever the recording medium and however it was recorded to your speakers as optimally as possible in your home.

Junk in junk out is true, but are you not adding insufficient reproduction by not optimizing your own system - because you are either adding or detracting once you drop the needle in the groove - why not make it pleasing as possible.
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