Doing the Power Cord Thing


Hey everyone,

So as you all know, I'm a DIY kind of guy when it comes to cables and speakers. I'll be building a new power cable using affordable parts from Parts Connexion and DH Labs:


https://www.partsconnexion.com/DHLABS-75520.html

and


https://www.partsconnexion.com/CONNEX-83387.html

They'll look nice, at least! :)


Testing will occur on the very last, new, Luxman 507ux in the United States.Will I hear anything at all? Or will this be just a wasted hour and wasted $100 assembling a cable?
erik_squires
Quite possible, maybe it had silver in it.  Whatever it was made my highs almost ear bleeding at high volume.  Put my original cord back and problem solved.  If I was to build a power cable I would make it 12/3 and good connector.  I was at audio store this weekend and a guy I met there said he uses a power conditioner,  I guess the same as hospitals use and it works. He said he bought it from Amazon for about 600.  I'm thinking maybe that's the place to invest if u already have everything else. 
I am a believer in DIY for certain things and save the cash for equipment.  Cables seem pretty easy to make. 
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with DIY. I’ve done my share. But why on Earth do folks do things by halves? If you’re going to make DIY power cords please, gentle readers, the least you can do is cryogenically treat them and try to figure out which direction they should be BEFORE you attach the connectors. Don’t forget a nice, long break in period.  And suspend them. I don’t know how you guys tolerate all the distortion. Seriously.
@geoffkait 
I'm all for doing it right and I would not waste my time or money, if I thought i wasn't going to do it right. So I totally agree with you geoffkait. If you cant do it right, don't do it at all.  I am a complete research freak, that's why I am always here asking questions from the experienced crowd. 
This is what my buddy was taking about. I said conditioner, but its isolation.   
Isolator Series 120V 1800W UL 60601-1 Medical-Grade Isolation Transformer with 6 Hospital-Grade Outlets. Tripp lite