Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?


I have two PS Audio AC3 and two Pangea AC 14 cables I don't use.  My thinking is that Ayre wouldn't supply cables that are inadequate for their components.  Is that thinking flawed?

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Feynman’s role is overrated by history. Everyone knew that NASA management circumvented the Senior engineers, supposedly Feynman’s major insight, very early into the investigation. Surely by the time the Thiokol engineer testified. There were two paths in NASA bureaucracy, engineer and management. The problem Rogers had with Feynman was he wasn’t a team player, he wanted to be the star of the show. Feynman was lucky to get his words in the Final Report at all. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was ill, as he had been suffering with cancer for many years and actually passed away soon after the report was published. Feynman especially clashed with Al Keel, Executive Director of the Rogers commission and Berkeley post doc, who was just as smart if not smarter than Feynman, and who had performed the final aerodynamic analysis at the beginning of the Shuttle program many years before.
Do you think he called the ’Feynman Technique’ the ’Me Technique’?
Like when God swears he yells- "Me dammit!" .
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Thanks for the link. Interesting article but unless I missed something it is a mere long winded cataloguing of all the various factors that Caelin Gabriel (head honcho of Shunyata Research) believes DON’T make a significant difference to power cord performance.

These include gauge, materials, length, distance from supply, external electrical interference etc. Heretical words for some, common sense for others.

However for an article titled WHY POWER CABLES MAKE A DIFFERENCE, there was seemingly nothing in it to justify its own title.

Upon a careful re-examination however, I think I might have found the passage where this particular audiophile dog may be carefully hidden, I mean buried -

Misconception #4.

"The power cable is effectively part of the primary winding of the power transformer. The transition between the various metals used in a power cable and its connectors can cause electromagnetic reflections and diode-like rectification of the noise impulses as they propagate away from the power supply. If the power cable presents a high impedance to these signals they will be reflected back into the power supply where they will intermodulate, thus increasing the high frequency noise levels of the component."

Now I don’t know what you think of this, but it’s difficult for me not to conclude that this is another fine example of attempting to blind with science - highly questionable and certainly unprovable science.

In other words, Snake Oil, albeit a higher class of that most miraculous audio panacea.


Anyway thanks again for the link. Knowledge shared can sometimes be knowledge gained, but sadly for me, not in this case.