My approach is for amps, which draw large amounts of power and current, you want a heavier gauge power cord that is also good quality, essentially a bigger pipeline. Build quality is important for durability and also for connector quality as well mainly.
For digital devices, pre-amps, etc., size of the pipeline is less critical. It becomes much greyer what matters most here, but in general I would go with a mainstream company that has a focus on audio sound quality, but would hesitate to go overboard.
$100-$200 max seems to provide ample choices for both categories based on some recent investigation I have done.
The pwoer cord into my DAC has some wear on it and I woudl like to replace it. I am looking at a Pangea power cord that comes in for under $100 on sale as being a decent bet for both value and quality. No doubt more could be spent but I struggle to have a clear justification for doing that. I have decent but not SOTA power cords on my amps and DAC currently and the sound is already quite top notch I would say. Bass slam can hang with the best reference systems out there I have heard, so the current power cords though nothing out of the ordinary, are doing quite well in that regard in particular.
For digital devices, pre-amps, etc., size of the pipeline is less critical. It becomes much greyer what matters most here, but in general I would go with a mainstream company that has a focus on audio sound quality, but would hesitate to go overboard.
$100-$200 max seems to provide ample choices for both categories based on some recent investigation I have done.
The pwoer cord into my DAC has some wear on it and I woudl like to replace it. I am looking at a Pangea power cord that comes in for under $100 on sale as being a decent bet for both value and quality. No doubt more could be spent but I struggle to have a clear justification for doing that. I have decent but not SOTA power cords on my amps and DAC currently and the sound is already quite top notch I would say. Bass slam can hang with the best reference systems out there I have heard, so the current power cords though nothing out of the ordinary, are doing quite well in that regard in particular.