I agree I can't see how after traveling who knows how many mile over whatever cable the power company uses and what's in your home how changing the last 3' will do anything.
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I would hope that they don’t fall for “this crap” without purchasing with full refund rights for at least 30 days and find the difference worth the monetary outlay. Buy , listen and decide for yourself. Personally, I’m not a big fan of buying a single power cord and expecting a large difference. I purchased a power conditioner with cables and this made a large difference in my house. Upgrading to higher level cables within the power system made lesser differences. Easiest upgrade noted on main power amp. |
The difference a power cord can make in your system is very large, particularly on the power amp. Power cords like interconnects and speaker wire can be considered in a couple different ways: quality and effect in your system. My meaning here is that greater quality usually means a greater impact on the sound quality… but it does not mean the effect is positive to your system / to your ear. Generally you must try some different ones. I recommend the lending library at the cable company or local dealer. I would try used cords. Include Cardas (a bit warmer) and AudioQuest storm series. Typically you get used at 50%… putting you in a much higher quality category. The AudioQuest Storm series has taken the community by (sorry) storm… they are such a big jump forward in sound quality. Also, I recommend DHLabs… they make really great products in your price range. My experience with the lower end Shunyata has not been good… as in, they just don’t seem to be much of an improvement… at least in the systems I have tried them in.
On my system, I spent a year trying different cords until I found the AudioQuest Hurricane, not in your price range. But the effect was so profound and did exactly what I wanted… complete transparency, with a dead quiet background. Adding power cords to my components had a much smaller but important impact. I used Transparent on those and they did exactly what I needed them to do. And these all replaced Audio Research’s very heavy duty stock 20amp cords… the difference was really important and very positive. |
@johnto Flip that idea around. It is the first 5-6 of power that your component sees on it's way to the power generation source. I hypothesize our components are making a fair bit of noise internally, which propagates back into the your house AC, and into your other components. The better cords filter out more of this back propagation. I have found the Shunyata NR cords to provide a noticeable improvement in sound quality. This hypothesis (not original to me) might be the reason why. |
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