Power Cables which take the soundstage back

I can't believe I'm weighting in again on this point but some people are trying to make things which are subjective into absolute truth.

I tried to point this out with humor/sarcasm but it seems not to have had any effect on the tone of discussion.Your points and opinions are necessary for us to learn from each other in this forum but we all hear differently and are not always seeking the same things.

1)In my system at my house,which none of you have heard,power cords made noticeable changes to overall sound.
This comes as a complete surprise to me.I tried 3 different cords and have had 3 different sounds.This does not mean that at your house it will be the same.
2)The original poster asked for advice on cords which moved the soundstage back.He states he has heard this effect.I too have heard this effect and answered the question to assist him in his search.I'm pretty sure I'm not delusional in hearing this because this is something I do not enjoy or want, but again this is what they were looking for.
3)Nowhere in their question do they mention they own or have owned a power conditioner.This may be another area we are missing in this discussion. A lot of people with conditioners say power cords have less/no effect when using conditioners.I do not have a conditioner so maybe that is why I can here differences.We cannot even agree if it better to use a conditioner or not but I will at sometime try one and see for myself on my system.
4)It seems,from reading other forums, that better power supplies are not as effected by power cords.Maybe our power supplies are not as well made as yours.Maybe we could not afford or did not know the difference a good power supply had on sound and are doing the best we can to learn to make it better.This is where the point of spending money on better components is well taken.

The main point I am trying to make is we do not want to tell or imply other people they are idiots are mentally ill because they hear differently.If you haven't noticed the OP is in hiding.We who hear cord differences would never say that you have bad ears or that that your system is not good.I'm sure your ears and system are very good.I would hate for this opportunity to learn to start to look like the HATE I see when reading about politics and sports.

Sorry about this being so long.I am not a very good typist so it took a lot longer to type than to read.

Danny

Your right, it's Magic. They build most of those cables at Hogwarts.

How do better power cables "work"? They:

1. have better conductors than lamp cord (I.E. bigger gauge, fewer stands, better metal)

2. have better shielding and/or geometry that cancels RFI/EMI from getting into the wire itself

3. or, more importantly, have better geometry/shielding that prevents RFI/EMI from leaking out of the cord and interfering with your low level audio signals in your nearby interconnects or the fancy circuits inside your gear

4. have better connectors that grip IEC and AC plugs firmly and better alloys that more efficiently transfer current.

5. are fatter, with fancier wrappers that make their owners feel special.

To respond to some of the comments above that after market power cords are either a bunch of whoo-ie, or that at least beyond certain simple structural improvements have no real impact, I suggest that there is a lot of room for design improvements that can especially affect #3 above, and that this is the place where the greatest benefits accrue.

I hear differences in sound between $99, $250 and $800 cords. I agree that the incremental benefits decay exponentially with increasing cost, but some people are willing to pay for those differences whether it is with wire, electronics, speakers and room treatments. If you don't hear any difference between different power cables, then God bless you and all that money you are saving.

PS - I could not help but laugh out loud at Stewie's posts above.

Update. After 6 glasses of the 2006 Trotanoy Pomerol Kathy Bates looks like Gisele Bundchen.

Macdadtexas,
While I apreciate your and others right to an opinion, your assertion that so long as the power is "clean" or if a high quality AC conditioner is present, then little or no gain can be realized from high end (expensive) powercords down stream is false to my ears. This has NOT been my finding on occasions too numerious to mention. In fact I suspect that if I could plug my system directly into the local power plant it would sound better then it does today and if I used my power conditioner and power cords it would sound better still and in the exact same ways it does 10 miles from my local power plant.

As always, and I am sure NO ONE will disagree with this- listen for yourself and then decide. Anyone who tries to talk anyone out of simple listening tests, at home no less, has an agenda. This hobby is about listening to music and getting the most from our personal systems after all.