The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance

rcfun33 says:
" Use a $5K cable for the final 3 ft and plug it into a $3 outlet and $0.12/ft, 14 gauge wire that runs 75 ft back to the breaker box."

That would be a real waste of a nice power cord unless you added at least two zero's behind the outlet price. 

The Audience Au24SX were around US$390/pair.

Just looked up how much I paid for them.
Sorry, more like US$700 a pair.
A bargain, but not a steal.

Well you could diy better ones for 20-20 bucks but who cares

For me it makes no sense to buy "costly" or even relatively costly power cord before addressing all the other factors:


cleaning the electrical grid of house and room,

Adressing the problem of mechanical resonance and vibrations, an underestimated one,


Treatment of the room and of speakers...


and even the search for the right source gear, or amplifier and speakers is mandatory in the first place because the power cord will not act the same in a different audio grid...


There is controversy with this subject, and all those in favor of only cheap cords, and those who vouch with costly one, are nor wrong neither right, this is their experience in a totally specific environment...


The power cord is the last think to buy like costly cables for your speakers or dac and amplifier...


Choose first the right gear for you, after that makes the three problems I speak of rightly answered...


After that spend money on cables and cords ( not too much tough) the reason is the impact of cable and cords is less , way less, than the right answers to all the other problems and choices...My best to all...

I have been interested in this topic but have been put off by some of the comments on this thread. It seems to me that there are three different positions displayed:
1. I didn't expect it to make a difference, but it did. Now I'd like to share with others and talk about it and understand why.

2. It can't make a difference (accompanied by an apparent unwillingness to try it) and those who think so are fooling themselves.

3. Agnostic - don't know or not sure. Maybe curious.

I can say this - I am now powering my system off of a lead-acid battery generator that puts out a perfect 60 Hz sine wave. I'm using stock power cords. The transformation in my system is roughly equivalent to a major power amp or preamp upgrade.