Aftermarket power cords for McIntosh amps/preamps

If you are looking for fairly inexpensive (59.00 for 3 feet and 4.00 each extra foot.)

http://www.signalcable.com/

The Power cables are pretty nice 10gage wire. I have a 10ft one on my MC352 and I do notice a big difference compaired to the stock one. I am not sure how much better it would sound with a cable at twice the price.

Mark

I am using Harmonic Tec ProII on my MC253 and MX135 and using a PS Audio Interlude(I beleeve that's the name) in My MC7205. I went with the PS Audio because of the removable ground pin. For some reason I get a ground hum on the 7205 and that cured it. As far as you other question on IC Cables I am using Cardas Golden Reference RCA's I tried the XLR but could not hear difference in 1 meter lengths

Jaybo is right: http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm

Plenty of folks waste good $$$.$$ on cords, wires, cables.

The power cords on Macs are standard, and, no matter what Roger Rusell writes, custom cords make a huge difference, as they did with my C200 and MC402. As excellent as their engineering is, limited is McIntoshs experience with cable and wire, it seems. When I started our with their amps and called them I got the answer from Chuck Hinton: "ICs, PCs and speaker cables sound all the same". My own experience turned out to be completely different. As far as PCs are concerned, I got excellent results with PS Audio´s Statement and, for less money, with LAT International´s PC, which is now in a MkII-version

I agree, I could never figure out why you would spend $2000 on a few feet of power cord when the next 100 or so feet to the breaker panel is romex at about a 1.00 a foot.

I went with the signalcable becuse I wanted to match the 10 gage wire (romex) I have dedicated all the way back to the panel. Its nice and costs what a power cord should.

Mark