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

And I realize that there are those that don’t believe in either

Assuming you use a power conditioner and after market power cords, do you feel that the power cord from the power conditioner to the wall might be a limiting or even a negating factor to the performance of the after market power cords that run from the power conditioner to the gear?

The reason I ask is that I was about to embark upon some more experimentation with different power cords and where I plugged them into when I discovered that the aftermarket cords I had purchased before and some recent arrivals are actually a meter shorter than the ones that came with the gear. This doesn’t matter for the amp due to its location, but when I did my last power cord upgrade I ran my CDP and pre into a conditioner so the length for those didn’t matter either, but as I was doing the musical chairs with power cords thing today, I also was intending to run the CDP and pre straight into the wall on separate dedicated circuits, but I found out that I am a tad short on those two.

Which doesn’t preclude me from moving my dedicated circuit outlets up a couple of feet, and I suppose I probably will, but I was curious as to the opinions about the limitations of a power conditioners power cord.

immatthewj
immatthewj OP
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Sounds like you are going in the direction of dedicated circuits, but if you decide power conditioning would be helpful in the future, I recommend you splurge on the quality of the supply cable.

@knownothing , I've had dedicated circuits since nineteen ninety and something, but my question was more related to using a power conditioner with a hard wired power cord and how much that would degrade afer market power cords from gear to that power conditioner.

immatthewj OP
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"Which will put me back up in the attic again, which is my least favorite place in this house..."

It’s full of mannequin heads and creepy dolls, isn’t it...

and let’s not touch that basement door either, the padlock is there for a reason

It’s an unfinished attic with no floor and covered in some kind of insulation that throws up clouds of nasty dust whenever it is disturbed. It is cold in the winter and hot in the summer and in general it is not a comfortable place to work.

 

immatthewj OP
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You should plug directly into the generating plant at your local electric company.

Thank you for a straight forward informative non-sarcastic answer to a non-sarcastic question.  

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squared80
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"And I realize that there are those that don’t believe in either"

It's not about believing. There are those who use objective facts, and those who use subjective opinions supported by any number of biases, realized or not. Those in the latter group fall for snake oil marketing tactics. Those in the former are true audiophiles.

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audphile1
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There are those who use objective facts, and those who use subjective opinions supported by any number of biases, realized or not.

Bias works both ways buddy. Realize or not. 

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