...Grounded or Ungrounded Power Cords...


Hello to all...

I've noticed that there are choices by different manufacturers for grounded or ungrounded power cords: 

Why would this be important?

With exactly same construction - do they sound different?
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jea48

... if some fly by night cable manufacturer is building a 3 wire grounding type power cord with the EGC lifted at the female IEC connector he is leaving himself wide open for a lawsuit, or worse ...
I agree with you, but this offering from Pangea does essentially the same thing by offering a removable ground pin:

" ... solid copper blades for the AC connections and upgrade to a screw-in/out solid copper ground pin. That will make the cable ... easy for customers to cancel any ground hum [by removing the ground pin]."

This product has been on the market for years.
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"With our New Gen 6 release, the ground wire is disconnected from the female IEC. Improvements have been made for exceptional tonal balance."

Hard to believe that Audio Envy, or any company for that matter, would produce/sell something like this. Totally irresponsible, IMHO.