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

In line with this thread though, I am confused why you need 3m power cords though- most people have the components close to the outlet or power conditioner and have longer interconnects to the amps, or longer speaker cables.

@mclinnguy , to answer this I will say that my life is full of compromises.  Up until sometime in late '17 my gear was set up with the stock 3m power cords in my living room, and something occurred that made me feel I would prefer to listen in a basically unused back bedroom.  Therefore I hauled all the gear to that bed room and set it up and then scoped out where I thought I should put outlets to accommodate the stock 3m power cords and then I commenced to install outlets and drop in dedicated circuits to them.

Sometime between then and now there were a plethora of dedicated circuit threads here on A'gon and one of them made me decide to go from using three  dedicated circuits to using one, and that prompted me do once again break out my ancient power conditioner which may be a glorified strip.  Then, last summer, I got interested in upgraded power cords and I started down the road with three very affordable 2m cords which made the reach okay because the amp is positioned where it will reach a pc with a 2m cord and the pre and cdp were already using the glorified strip, so 2m worked okay there (then) also.

Present date:  I bought three new upgraded power cords and wasn't really thinking about possible ramifications of their 2m length.  My intention was to run the pre and amp directly out of the wall on one duplex and run the CDP out of the wall from another duplex and completely go without the power conditioner/glorified strip.  It was at this point that I realized that the location I had put the outlets in when I installed three new circuits worked fine for stock 3m power cords but fell maybe a foot or a bit less short with 2m cords.  Hence, for the time being, I am still using the power conditioner/glorified strip for my pre and CDP and the amp is straight out of the wall, and for the time being I am going to run it out of a separate circuit from the pre and CDP.

That's the short version.  And I type this next in all seriousness:  from reading your posts/questions it does appear that you actually read through the entire back & forth in the thread before you started typing.  

I wouldn’t, but it is your house (I hope?) After re-reading this thread if that is easiest then yes do it. I think alot of us who use power conditioners have it within 1-2m of the components, and then if you need a longer power cord to go from the wall to the conditioner you buy just one longer power cord.

@mclinnguy , house is ours, bought and now paid for. And moving the outlets up about a foot or a foot & 1/2 would allow all of the gear that I am using to go straight into the wall. Not only that, when I do that, I might as well do a better job of routing the three runs of Romex to insure more space between them. Which will put me back up in the attic again, which is my least favorite place in this house, but it’s not like I have a lot else going on in my life.

Sounds like you are fixed into your components needing to be in a rack? A tall one? Do they need to be? I don’t have a rack- I have platforms- so I don’t have that issue.

Well, not really, but that’s another story. The gear is off to the side, not in a rack and not between the speakers.

Which will put me back up in the attic again, which is my lest favorite plaace in this house, 

I hear ya; wear a dust mask. 

I hear ya; wear a dust mask.

Ha! It’s interesting that you should mention it, @mclinnguy . When I ran Romex up there for the first set of dedicated circuits back in ’98 or so, I wouldn’t go up there without wearing a respirator. Since then there have been several more circuit/wire expeditions up there, and the last time was two Novembers ago. For that one I was redoing some stuff for the new circuits in my new listening room. "Redoing" is an understatement--"doing over" is more apt, but anyway I was up there day after day after day. I’d wake up, go to MacD’s and get a frappe, and then climb up into the attic and work until my cramps got too bad &/or I could feel my blood sugar getting too low.

Anyway, when I started that last expedition I was wearing a mask, but my glasses were fogging up and it was just a hindrance and I said screw it. Then about a week before Thanksgiving (I had finished my attic work) I had gone to the VA hospital to take a cardiac stress test and this was about the time Covid masking was unofficially starting to relax a bit. I woke up Thanksgiving morning feeling a bit crappy, and by the next day I was sick as a dog, and I stayed sick for better than a week.

I didn’t get tested, but I figured I must have picked up a dose of the Covid at the VA hospital, but I am also wondering if maybe that sickness was the result of all the nasty dust I was inhaling up there.

Anyway, this next expedition will be a lot quicker than the last one. Unless, that is, I decide to swap out the 12-2 for 10-2.

Yes sorry for the confusion.  The paper was a cut and paste from The Absolute sound.  The paper was submitted by Vince Galbo of MSB fame.