Are these power cords that look similar to a Audioquest etc..that you can find on eBay a bad choice or are they adequate ?
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.
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@immatthewj denial is a 12 gauge river on the path to disenchantment. |
@duckey try them, you might like them. |
@duckey there was a long thread on here about a low-cost cable brand called Preffair. Their power cables are in the $40-50 price range on Amazon. Folks seemed to think that they were well built, and that in certain cases they sounded as good as brand-name cables selling for 10 or 20 times more. At that price they're worth a try, why not? They certainly beat the black molded-plastic cord that came in the box. Some caveats would be to check that the conductors are really copper and not copper-plated aluminum, and that the advertised 12awg wire is not 18awg buried in extra thick insulation. |
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