Power cord - 5 ft vs 10 ft ?


I've heard many things about the length of a power cord. What is the ideal length of a power cord to give it a chance to perform at its best before connecting to an amplifier?

jumia

Dear @jumia, If you’ve heard "many things" about the length of power cables, you may be reading too many audio boards! 😉 There really isn’t that much to say!

If this is an effect at all, it’s vanishingly small compared to things such as speaker and component selection, speaker and listener positioning, acoustics, subwoofer positioning and integration, choice of listening chair, and so on. And the more subtle of those are absolutely swamped by variations among recordings.

As a rule, one could do far worse than "long enough to reach the wall outlet."

 

as short as possible.  as long as necessary for comfortable routing.  Avoid coils and loops.  

these are rules of thumb that are based on physics.  that said. you probably won't hear a differnce between 5' and 10' if both are good quality heavy gauge (10 awg) cable.

Some will say short, some will say long. Some of the Jason Bourne ilk will say it does not matter, like usual. These strange dudes don’t think cables do anything, but for some reason post non-stop in all cable related threads 🤔