AC Power cable for ARC Ref 5 se.

danvignau  I dont understand what you are trying to say. Please explain yourself 

danvignau
Really? You trust ARC enough to spend thousands of dollars, but think you can improve the power cord. What kind of designer would limit his creation to save a truly insignificant amount of money with a crappy power cord?

danvignau - I understand where you are coming from, I do; but see this post earlier in the thread from Lostbears, who I assume has been to the ARC listening rooms.
  

Lostbears
ARC uses Sain Line and Shunyata power cords and cables in their listening rooms

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Form your own opinion. I know I did. 8^0

danvignau
Really? You trust ARC enough to spend thousands of dollars, but think you can improve the power cord. What kind of designer would limit his creation to save a truly insignificant amount of money with a crappy power cord?

Oh! Oh! Me! Me! Me! What kind of designer? Uh, all of them. For the same reason they don’t put better fuses in their sacred creations. They are blissfully unaware there’s a controversy. Case solved. At ease. Smoke if ya got em.

Just read Michael Fremer's latest column in Stereophile magazine.  The Audioquest latest upper level power cords are the way to go.  Starting at $650 for a one meter lemgth.  Although I am still using the prior models, the NRG 10's some NTG 100's plus one NRG 1000, I have found them to be far superior to equally priced Shunyata.  Anyway, with the addition of two Audioquest Niagara 1000's, my audio systems never sounded beter.  Using an Audio Research LS27 for the verycnter of my dual-speaker based as well as seperate, but still connected hedphone systems, I an mostcertainly say that the choice of power cords used maked a huge difference.  I myself just wish I had an extra $1300 to purchase a couple of the latest power cords to replace my current ones.  Also note even the prior better Audioquest power cords rsrely come up used for sale.  Maybe now with the latest power cords coming they might start appearing.  At a used price they would be true bargins if one can not afford the latest ones.

Of course, there is the distinct possibility that the new line up of power cords from Audioquest sound very good largely or partly anyway due to the fact that Audioquest controls directionality for them. Yes, I realize current in AC power cords goes both ways. No angry emails, please. 😬