Power cord upgrade

Hey there 1971gto455ho, I'm hoping that my detailed response based on experience and with sources will supply other forum readers an option rather than spending serious coin on high end-high mark up power cables.  I cannot overstate how easy and satisfying it is to DIY.  Have a good week.

@dougthebiker 

I think your speakers may have contributed a little. :) 

I wouldn't go with either transparent or nordost, both those companies use the cheapest wire which is OFC which has 500 crystal barriers per foot with your little fractures in the wire that the signal has to jump across, if you really want to make a big improvement in your system get any power cords made with OCC single crystal wire and if you really want to take it even to the next level after that the rectangular OCC single crystal wire is even better than the round OCC single crystal wire.

skids

2nd- Transparent or Wire World Silver Electra (PC).

Happy Listening!

Just watch this and learn something

instantaneous current draw

I like to learn, so I watched.

Besides the fact that wire gauge is never mentioned in the video, I was surprised that that crappy PC power cord had a measured .5kA transient current delivery capability. That's 500A, which should cover pretty much any audio-related use case many times over.

Why did Shunyata choose to highlight such a useless metric rather than real-world ones like resistance and temperature increase and voltage drop under sustained high-current use? Unless I'm missing something, it's almost as if they're going out of their way to give critics more ammunition by creating the impression that a crappy PC power cord is more than capable of doing the job, even though we know that overall it is not.