Best power cord for Audioquest Niagara 1200


Like to upgrade stock power cable. Any suggestions and will it make a difference?

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The way to look at power cord, is that it provides power conditioning, so, it will improve the sound significantly. 

@bigtwin For someone with a Niagara 1200 yes it would be ridiculous, IMO, and obviously beyond the budget. My comment was tongue-in-cheek, but in line with your first post- there are plenty of power cord threads to read. 

To answer the second question, will it make a difference with a dragon? I think absolutely. Will it make a difference if he gets a $100 power cord? Maybe not. 

 

@mclinnguy  For me, this just seems to be putting the cart before the horse.  Since the idea of the Power Conditioner is to "Condition" the electricity feeding your components, and in some cases radically converting the electrical  supply as is the case with something like a regeneration unit, it would seem to me that any decent heavy AWG cable, that is transferring current from a wall outlet, may 3 - 6 feet to your power conditioner, would be more than adequate.  I could see the use of the really good cable on the other side of the conditioner but not before it.  IMHO

I would rather an AQ Niagara 5000 with an AQ Thunder than a 1200 with a Dragon, though certainly the Dragon is a super cord...

It would be an interesting experiment, wouldn't it? 

Have a mid/low level system, 10K total between conditioner, amp, DAC, and speakers assuming DAC has digital out. All stock power cords but decent IC's and speaker cable. 

Then introduce a broken in Dragon before conditioner, then from conditioner to amp, then from conditioner to DAC and see which makes the most difference/improvement to a group of people. 

If I had a hifi store I would do it! And put it on Youtube!