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Cost effective power cables recommendations, low and high power

I recently watched a number of informative videos about AC cables for our systems. One by the Dutchman Hans Beekhuysen (sp?) was really very good and explained why they matter, even with so many miles of cheapo cable bringing power into our homes, it seems to be all about reducing and rejecting stray interference from a lot of juice passing through the cables to our componenets, and the effect this might have on nearby interconnects and so on.

So I thought I would ask for recommendations from users here on what power cables you use for amplifiers (higher power consumption) and other components like digital stuff or preamps and so on, what are you happy with and that seems to make a difference big or small.

I am not about to spend thousands (or even many hundreds) for power cables, so hopefully something in what we mere mortals who work hard to earn our money can typically afford. Well shielded, properly twisted and insulated cable that does the job well, without typical marketing bull or obscene prices and markups please!

troidelover1499
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jerryg123
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Checkout Signal Cable and Zafino Cable

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dodgealum
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Check out Empirical Design power cables—they have ED 416 for high current and ED 316 for low current components. Excellent products with great support.

kennyc
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You can buy and sell used to try.

Audio Bacon had a PC shootout a few years back.

Acoustic Revive on eBay from Japan

RSX Upper PC lines got great reviews

sheridanmartinj
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Hello Family,  Good Post OP.  I also bought the $40 dollar Amazon power cords I replace the stock PC`s of my Audio Research CD3 CD player, also to each of my Velodyne Subs, one for the Pass XP30 Preamp. an also one for My Pass XP350 Power amp I`m very pleased with the power cords.  The Pass XP30 is a 3 tier Preamp that uses umbilical cords I upgraded those with a used pair of Revelation Audio Labs DP25`s the big 3.6 Maggies sound soooooooo much better.

troidelover1499 OP
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Let me ask another question. For the main amp, it is pretty heavy so a thick stiff cord is workable but for smaller items like phono stage or DAC they are smaller lighter units, they will work much better with a pretty flexible lighter AC cable. Would appreciate suggestions for good sounding lighter gauge cords please.

As I understand it, shielding is pretty darned important, so perhaps making a really good sounding lighter flexible cord is actually more challenging than a big thick one.

I know that some makers do purposefully like to market their cords as mega thick pythons and give customers a sense they are getting something substantial, play with the buyer psychology some. But I think for my use with source components lighter and more flexible will be better, sound of the cable aside.

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