Is my power chord going bad?

@blue_collar_audio_guy It took me a while to understand what you were going on about.

Why would you want to touch your power cable with your interconnect cable?

Which part of the IC are you using to touch the PC?

My phono cable from turntable to phono pre (Audio Sensibility impact SE) is different from the rest of my interconnects (Vintage Western Electric). My next cable upgrade will be to all Audio Sensibility cables through the system.

I didn’t want to touch the cables it just happened by accident and that is when I noticed the hum. The vintage western electric is a simple cloth sheathing however there is no noise when I use a different power cable and try the same experiment. Hence the question of the power cable being the cause of this and if that indicates a faulty cable. Hope this clarifies.

The cables touched near the center of their runs. It is a high current cable for use with amplifiers. 

@blue_collar_audio_guy 

what happens if you move these interconnects to preamp/amp connection and conduct the same experiment? Do you still get that hum?

Is your power cord going bad? No it is the same as it was.