Power Cord brands mixing. "Your Opinions"

How does one chose a power cord logically?

Are there power cords for reasonable cost that are always a safe bet?

Or does one try to tweak the best power cord to match a particular device somehow? How could one even attempt to do that other than by trail and error? IS it worth it? I'd rather just buy a good cord at a fair price and be done with it. Spending time and money tweaking a power cord is not something that has any appeal to me, but I would consider getting a good one in general and being done with it.

Mapman,
Most of your questions are what I had in mind when I was looking for some good pc's. My search has happily ended with 2 brands: DH Labs Power Plus and Audio Art Power 1 (with the Furutech options). They both run around 250 for 2m. AA is sheided, the DH is not.

They gave me fairly universal results in application in that I use them (8 total) on: 300b SET monos, 2a3 SET stereo, 300b pp stereo, 845/211 SET monos, and Pass's solid state 30.5 and 100.5's.

Several different types of amps, same result: in each case they made the sound better. This is coming from the stock black ones that came with the equipment but for reference, I have tried a some more expensive cables and have not liked the result.

I wasn't looking for anything euphoric or hyper-detailed, just something that would "get out of the way" as I believe the stock black ones are there just to get you up and running.

let's look at this issue logically.

if you assume that each designer can be ascribed by having its cables exhibit a sonic personality, can one find a manufacture which satisfies your taste.

i say one manufacturer's product will not do it and so it is advisable to combine the products from different companies.

Onemug,

Thanks. That is useful information that I will consider!

I run PC's in series. The right combinations are head and shoulders above single cables in my system.