What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound?

It is when reading about Bybee 12 years ago that i decided to experiment with some minerals as shungite and quartz etc ... With success at my modest scale ...😊

I dont have money for costly tweaks but it does not means they dont work ...

Science is experiments, not decrees by some Pope of a technological cult faith about how and why qualia are only reducible to Maxwell equations as interpreted by some engineers ..

One of the greatest science achievements of all time come from mystics rigorous thinking by the way ... Sorry for technocratic materialists ...

life is not simplistic ... 😁

@texbychoice Jack Bybee’s work as a physicist would be an example cable/circuit research for military use.

@pindac  I have read the manufacturing process for PC Triple C Wire and I'm lost as to the benefit.  If I understand it correctly, they are repeatedly working the copper to end up with all the crystals aligned.  And yet, with the OCC continuous casting process, you supposedly end up with a cable comprised of one single crystal.  Zero boundaries for the power/signal to need to navigate.  No need to compress it to remove oxygen as it's already oxygen free.  Kind of sounds like they needed to come up with a process to convince us to buy new cables?  IMHO  As an aside to this, I run Hegel amps, and questioned them directly on the best power cable to use.  They suggested using anything other than the stock cable they provided was a waste of money.  For what it's worth.  

My first "contact" with the power cord issue was buying a high power Classe amp, 25 years ago, and one of the first things in the manual was the suggestion I should purchase an upgrade power cord...I was quite angry seeing this...bought an A/C Mater Coupler a few years later, and it did sound better...and the Classe included cord was a quality cord, not a throw away...sold the A/C coupler 10 years later, for the original used price I had paid...

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This is my claim to power cord fame!

One of the reasons I eliminated the power cords from my mono amps was to eliminate two electrical connection points, the wall plug and power cord male plug. Also, another reason is to remove the question about what power cords sounded best. Running each mono amp directly to it’s dedicated electrical circuit sounds better, in my opinion, then running them with power cords and wall plugs. The rest of my equipment uses 12 AWG 1 foot long power cords. As far as all power cords go I would say keep them short as possible and 14 AWG or lower. FWIW, All four of my dedicated audio lines consist of Galvanized Steel MC Metal Clad Cable 10 AWG in wall wiring. 😎

Mike

@ditusa Sounds interesting.  The best PC is no PC.  So did you open up the amp cases and hard-wire directly from the wall box to the amp internally, or did you skip the wall box completely and run a continuous cable from you main panel directly into each amp?  Soldered connections?  And why did you choose to use Metal Clad cable within the walls.  I can't find anything that suggests a benefit to using MC cable inside residential walls.  I'm building a new dedicated listening room in the spring and am open to any ideas that can be incorporated at the time of construction.   Cheers.