A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks

Sorry, @soix , I’ll try to be clearer.

My question is if you have some of upgraded power cords and instead of plugging them into the wall you plug them into a conditioner which plugs into the wall via it’s own power cord, does that then downgrade or even negate the value that your upgraded power cords may have added to your system?

The reason I ask is because I just did some further power cord upgrading and I wanted to go straight into the wall with them (I had a couple of other aftermarket power cords that I had been going into a conditioner with) but I found that I couldn’t reach the wall from my CDP or my pre with only two meters. (My OEM corrs were three meters and they did reach the wall.)

It is not a disaster because the solution is that if I move the dedicated circuit outlets up a foot or maybe a foot and a half I can reach them with everything and I guess I’ll probably do that, but they are not in my favorite place to work I was just curious how the guys (and gals?) who are using pricier cords AND conditioners feel about what the cord from the conditioner may do to the whole effect.

In my limited experience, power cord from the wall to power conditioner is very important.. I use PS Audio regenerator and experimented with a few power cords. Purist Audio Dominus was the best but I needed it for my amp, Purist Aquila was second best, so I left it there. Custom Power Cord Company Top Gun was third but it is great for source components.

Thanks for the input, @inna , I forgaot to add a couple of things:

1) the cord on my conditioner, as nice as it looks, is hardwired into the conditioner

2) and the conditioner itself is nearly 30 years old and is probably what I have heard affectionately referred to as a glorified strip.

I suppose when the smoke clears I’ll move the outlets, but where I will be working is not my favorite, so I am not sure how soon the smoke will clear.

@ghdprentice , 

 So, if the question is, will putting a lower cost one directly to the conditioner, will it act as a limiter

yes, that was my question!

I like your answer because the older I get the lazier I get and the place where my outlets are and where I would need to move them to is not exactly a piece of cake to work at.

Power cords is always  a fascinating subject, more so than other cables.

Power cords is always  a fascinating subject, more so than other cables.

@inna , I've found it to be at least an as polarizing issue.  Big surprise, I am sure.

@ghdprentice , are you going straight into the wall with your gear?