Power Cable DIY - Please advise

Just be aware that as a marketing trick, there are some audio/electronic Chinese companies which place simply a small office in Europe but all the design/work is done in China. They pretend to be a German, Italian or Austria company to sound fancy and high quality European company in order to attract customers. One of those brands pretends to use European OCC copper which is non-sense! For audio copper cables, there are two major Japanese companies having appropriate technology to make fine copper cables. Big brands in USA and Japan even like Furutech and Oayide, they commission their orders to those Japanese companies.

Neotech is a good cable power cable especially Hybrid copper/silver version of it.

IeGO is a company based in Taiwan. Their designer used to design cables for Furutech. Their cables are very good but need some tricks to be assembled. Based on my my experience, Male and IEC side need to be of different metal. Best result that I had was to use male IEGO gold with IEC Furutech FI-15Plus or Fi-25 (or 28) gold.
some review:
http://hifi-advice.com/Furutech-IeGO-powerconnectors-review.html

They could be purchased directly at:
http://www.acoustic-fun.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=25_29&osCsid=kelnh6il3ardfed9a4pgt1d0g0

I don't have any affiliation with those companies!!!

hope that would help.
cheers,

@geoch 

Im planning on very similar lines like your setup..

Furutech GTX-D (R) [receptacles]
Furutech FI-03(G) [fused IEC inlet]
 [fuses] ???
Iego 8085 or perhaps 8095 pure silver with rhodium plating [plugs]

As for PC, Iam not very convinced about Yarbo as Michelzay mentioned above, it seems like a Chinese company opened shop in Germany.

@michelzay,

Greetings,
Thank you for your advise, could you please elaborate when you say "The connector side is very tricky on assembling" I assume it's specifically related to the NEP3200? Any idea how much it costs currently?

Have you used the new versions NEP-3001,2,3 MkIII? If yes, could you please give us your views.

I do agree that the IeGO seem like a solid company and their build quality looks very nice indeed, it could well be the "bang for the buck" I'm looking for... Only read good things about them..

Appreciate the heads up on Chinese companies posing as Germans and also the link to purchase iego plugs.

I just checked out the iego site..

They look very similar to sonar quest, which I’m currently using and find to be excellent connectors. So that’s another option.. I really like the silver plated copper in my rig.

http://www.sonarquest.net/

I've no affiliation with them either.. Read about them on the inter web.

---I think Yarbo has nothing in common with anything German, but please do not hesitate to give a listen! It costs almost nothing and the conductors are FLAT OFC. The 23euro/m SP-7000PW has a double shield and also flat OFC conductors. In general an acceptable construction and a phenomenal performance, even if "German quality" is probably arbitrariness and perhaps a misleading marketing phrase.
---SR fuses ... you must have patience for 200h break-in.
---Gold plating for plugs has a refined sound and nice price. 8095 is a rarity among audiophiles cause of it's high price and although I like silver, the rhodium plating is not for me. Another reason may be that you can't find any fused silver inlet to match for an ideal contact.