2. cables
  3. 163125-125864

Can flexible power cables sound good?

Just borrowed some hefty power cables from my locale dealer. The shop is closed because of Covid-19 so he borrowed me some very nice cables and a PS Audio Power Plant P20 to play with.
The PS PC P12 is simple not bendable and the same goes for many of the other cables.
That's a real problem for me. I don't have the space to move my rack out and rearrange all my equipment and electrical sockets to make room for such hefty cables.  

So are there really good power cables that are also flexible?
martin-andersen
clearthinker's avatar
clearthinker
1,582 posts
 
Hi everyone.
I figured it quickly.  The Second Law of Audio is not to listen to anything millercarbon says.

It is well overdue for promotion to First Law.

You got the right idea Wolfie, you're just insufficiently obsessed.
A solid copper bar 3 inches diameter is pretty hard to flex.  Stainless steel would be an improvement.  Up the diameter according to your obsession.  What tosh!
mahlman
433 posts
 
Sure there is. 12g zip cord from Monoprice works very well and if you hide it and tell people you have a $10,000 speaker cable they will believe it. Cheap and the fidelity is great. The only thing it lacks is bragging rights.
dinov's avatar
dinov
831 posts
 
Shunyata has flexible cords as options in their line. Excellent power cords. 
scottscottsdale
103 posts
 
Why not just email PS Audio directly. They will help you!!!
jrh1970
3 posts
 
Audiophile sites are populated by wonderful people who happily spend hard earned $$ on equipment from vendors who have demonstrated the ability to provide awesome fidelity, well over 100dB of S/N ratio and vanishing low THD from their equipment.  The engineers for vendors can clearly do digital and analog magic with electronics, based on an understanding of solid state (and vacuum tube) design principles.

Think about this:  Are these same engineers not competent to build power supplies into their equipment to provide nice pure, regulated DC voltages to the same electronics?  These engineers know full well that power lines are loaded with noise and are subject to significant voltage fluctuations.  Really, they do know that.  They actually do know how to design power supplies to filter out all that crud.

There is nothing that a 6 foot super-voodoo, magic-sauce-included power cord plugged into a wall outlet can solve that these engineers haven’t already anticipated and solved as part of their power supply design.  Really.

The vendor provided you a power cord with your equipment that is perfectly sized for their equipment, knowing full well that at some point you will plug it into a wall outlet.  Think about it.  Spend your money somewhere it will actually improve your listening experience.  Of course it IS your money.

Caveat Emptor
jrh
More to discover