Power Cord Revelation

Try the LessLoss Sig if you can swing it. As good as anything out there at a very reasonable price.

Neal

Neal, yes, the one I tested was Sig

Stealth V10 preamp power cord one of the best!!

We investigated this interesting problem
years ago and found that the power cord(s) affect
the 'ground-floor' noise of the equipment.

SWR has been over-looked as the culprit, due to the
length of the cord being 'too-short'. None the less
the power cord has a different 'resistance' than the
equipment in use. The resultant mis-match will still
cause a reflected energy, of about 250-375 m-Volts.
This reflected energy - noise - is impressed upon the
ground plane of, for example, the CD player.
The circuitry of the CD player is affected by this - noise -
causing / changing the audio signal enough to be heard by
many individuals.
We have a complete white paper written up we could send
to you about this process and pictures of the
- measured noise- .

We, as posted before, investigated this problem and
were amazed that power cords made a difference.

We used a network analyzer to check power cords
for the low end testing of common L,C,R measurements
are of little value as we found out. Our first tests
were to measure SWR - SMITH Chart - displays. Wow
what a difference in SWR and cable designs - geometries
in particular. ZIP cords and regular 3 wire power cords
were our first cables tested.
LONG story short - we eventually designed an
award winning power cord - but more importantly
learned why the short power cord affects(ed) the audio
systems. Noise from the resistive mis-match of the
power cord and the equipment in use. Even though the
generated noise is low about 250-375 m-Volts this
is enough to cause havoc with the audio signal.
We have a white paper if you would like to see our
full details of how we did this test.