Regarding getting back to enjoying the music…. I’m actually at the point where I am enjoying considering how to improve my system, as opposed to stressing over certain aspects of my system that sounded bad to me, and not knowing how to resolve those issues. But as I am conducting critical listening analysis now, and going through blind A/B tests (with family participation - they don’t actually care but they think it’s fun when they are otherwise bored), I am finding more often now that all of a sudden I’m sucked back into the music. That happened the other night and I stayed up all night re-discovering the back catalogues of some of my favourite artists, which entirely due to my 10 AWG wire, @1971gto455ho , are now presented in an entirely different light…. ;)
Ideal power cord lengths?
A quick Google search suggests there is consensus that the ideal power cord length is 2m. 1m cords sound “harsher” and 3m cords sound “smoother”, with 2m being the sweet spot. The PS Audio dude suggests that the reason is that the reason is that all cords have an impact on the power, and the greater the length, the greater the impact, good or bad.
I know many will say there is no difference between a 1m cord and a 3m cord. But my question is, who here has tried like model power cords of different lengths, and what were the differences?
Second question: How does length factor into the equation when you have a cord feeding a conditioner, then other cords feeding components? If 2m cords are in fact the ideal, would 1m cords be ideal when using conditioners?
I tend to believe those that say that power cord lengths matter. While I’ve not been able to do this test myself, I’ve had these two experiences:
- Testing Audioquest Diamond and Nordost Valhalla 2 USB cables, the cables shorter than 1.5m sounded TERRIBLE by comparison. Especially the .75m Audioquest Diamond vs the 1.5m version. But the 1m Valhalla 2 also sounded awful in comparison to the 2m version. In general this opened my eyes to how much cable length matters, and counterintuitively in the case of digital cables.
- I have a 2019 2m AudioQuest Hurricane Source cable from back when AQ braided their cables, and I also have the newer non-braided Hurricane Source, but 3m in length. The new Hurricane sounds vastly superior to my old 2m Hurricane. In comparison the older cord compresses the soundstage depth. I don’t know if the differences are due to the differences in length, or if it’s due to a design change by Audioquest.
Very interested in learning of others experiences with power cord lengths.
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No poking here, I’ll tell ya what I’ve got. A smaller town, 5km from Electrical substation, a Single transformer post from a mainline with me being the only destination. I have a pony panel with 100 amp service with four outlet hospital grade boxes side-by-side each wired with 12 gauge and individual 20 amp breakers. That wiring Is directly wired into the panel which is a 10 foot trip. The panel is Obviously inside my sound room exiting through the wall then 200 feet to the transformer service pole. Power is remarkably clean with enough current to service several systems. I do feel privileged. Cheers
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@nyev I just added a 1m Audioquest Hurricane powering my Puritan PSM-156 power conditioner and it sucks!!!! It’s causing me to stay up until 3am listening and I’m totally sleep deprived at this point. It must be the 1m length that’s at fault here hahahaha. |
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