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High priced power cable what about the romex

I have a question that I tried to post before but for some reason it was flagged by the moderators.

I have nice looking power cable some signal, some MIT, some home made, and they look like they should do a great job, could even run a small town

My question is if you run romex from the fuse box to your high priced outlet, and then plug in your high priced powercable, how will this improve the path from the fuse box to the outlet? And if it doesnt why not just run the same romex to your HiFi.
How does a better grade power cable improve the path from the main grid.
I have heard this again and again "Your system is as good as its weakest link" So isnt the romex one of those weak
links?

I am sure there is a good responce to this and I am not trying to be negitive in regards to high priced power cords but what am I missing?
punkuk
mpmoody
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Try the Radix Power Solutions Cables. The Quiddity is $249 and rejects noise very well. Deep black quiet sound field. Go to RadixCabkes.com
mpmoody
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It's RadixCables.com oops....
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spatialking
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Punkuk: Pick up a 12 gauge or 14 gauge IEC power cord at your local electronics shop for around 10 to 15 bucks. It has 3 to 4 times the conductivity of regular power cords.

The problem with RF and EMI is that after you spend a few hundred bucks to rewire your house with armored Romex; you forget that the shielded Romax is made for mechanical protection and general earth grounding, not EMI shielding. If you want to shield for RF and EMI, then use some 3/4 inch copper pipe as your conduit and run 10 gauge stranded wire inside it. Also run an earth ground as well. Aluminum conduit isn't conductive enough to shield well. But, it is way better than the armored Romex.

Of course, you have miles and miles of bare wire outside your house picking up EMI, RF, etc that this setup won't eliminate.

Given that, you might add a 300 amp 400 Hz screen room line filter at your main power panel where you connect up your copper conduit. Once you filter it there, it will clean everything up. Those filters are really effective and mondo expensive.
talon4
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Spatialking, Actually, the 6 gauge armoured romex that my electrician bought at Home Depot for my 70 foot run from my main panel to my sub panel has a flexible ALUMINUM conduit sheath. How can Aluminum conduit be "better" than armoured romex? From everything I've seen at Lowes, Armoured romex means that it has a flexible aluminum conduit. ie.)Armoured=Aluminum conduit. Stan
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