Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?

+1 tjarmstrong

"Is he some sort of expert on all things concerning hi-fidelity?"

He is some sort of expert in everything. His credentials are on display throughout these threads.

If you are in a money-saving DIY mood:

Install an external LIVE solid AWG 16 to 12 copper or silver wire to a conventional power cord. 

Strip two inches of the outer insulation sleeve just before the connectors at both ends.  Then cut the LIVE wire (use meter to find live wire) leaving two inch tails leading to the connector at each end to which you can solder an external wire that is least five inches longer than the power cable.   Wrap live wire connections only with electrical tape.

Keep the external wire at least two to three inches away from the power cable's neutral/ground wires for the entire length of the cable and plug it in. 

Connect one of these cables to components one at time.  Audition the improvement as each component's new external LIVE wire cable is installed.

You can also start from scratch with connectors and wire. I use 12 AWG stranded copper wire for neutral and ground wires. I use solid naked silver 16 AWG wire encased in an 11 AWG Teflon tube or two layers of expandable poly sleeve for for LIVE wire connected to Sonarquest connectors. Frankly, the modified conventional cable sound about the same.

The theory is that parallel LIVE and neutral wires cause induction that produces noise.  Whether that is what happens is beyond my ken.  Whatever it is, it works.  Bass is tightened and voices are sweeter.

Compare results.

Cheers

thyname674 posts04-23-2020 12:44pmLOL!! This must be the most preposterous (I am trying to be nice) post I have seen in years in this hobby. Voiding the warranty for using a power cord other than the stock power cord?? LOL!!

I was reading at Decware the owner made up his own cable, out of fear his customer kept buying bigger and bigger and, you get my point.  He was worried about damage from, to heavy, and to big. That was a few years back, he has a whole line of cables now. 

It is a sight to behold, a PC flip an amp off a table, because the cable is heavier than the amp.  It wasn't funny.  I'm glad it wasn't  me for once..
LOL hope he doesn't read this.. The LOL part.. LOL

Yes different PCs sound different, different ends, different size, different cladding, different, different, different. I've been tinkering, they do sound and perform different.. I'm finding "TO BIG" can just kill a components potential, and vice versa, can leave a hole lot of potential on the table, too.

Regards

rockysantoro:

Who is this millercarbon dude? Is he some sort of expert on all things concerning hi-fidelity? What are his credentials?

Same as yours. Credentials are a chimera. I mean that literally: a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. I'm not big on credentials. I go by what a person is actually able to do, not by what some administrative bureaucratic sanctioning group of committees says they know. 

That said, here are my "credentials":

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367

You could also read through my posts. Quite a few of them are in total agreement with this one of yours from back in December:

Static and electromagnetic energy degrade the end result(what comes out of your speakers).Every component is affected,cables,power cords,amps CD players,orDACS.The presence of or lack of this energy,is why your system sounds better some days,and not so good on others.

Not too shabby. Keep up the good work.