Omega Mikro powercord users help:

Sometimes it will be the case in a given system that there is no clear cut better choice between the red and the blue. Don't try to listen for a difference that may not be there. If there were a meaningful difference for your system, it would be clearly audible. If you think the blue is consistently a little more focused, that might be the better choice. An improved focus and clarity of the sound is typically the type of difference one would expect to hear.

I was surprised that I could tell a difference, but it certainly wasn't night and day, and BOTH the red and blue PCs sounded so good that I would have been happy with either.

Well in my case, with an OM plugged into my cdp, the difference was obvious. The red was definitely superior. On my preamp the difference was not as great, but still audible. Again the red won the day. I agree with Rushton that if the blue focuses better, that's probably what you should go with. Take your time and relax about it and your choice will probably become clearer to you.

The difference between the Red and the Blue cords is that the Red is designed for components that have transformers wound clockwise and the Blue is designed for components that have transformers wound counterclockwise.

The trouble comes into play when a component has say 2 transformers and one is wound clockwise and the other is wound counterclockwise. In this instance the cords will sound pretty similiar.

The only way to tell which cord you should use is by listening. Personally, I would give a Silent Source AC cords a shot. They are very close to the perfomace of the OM cords on many components but with a lot less hassel, and they are a lot less fragile.

KF

The Silent Source power cables certainly are a reasonable alternative, as Tok2000 suggests. You don't give up too much by comparison to the Omega Mikros. My amplifiers require 4 power cords, so Silent Source was the route I took there as a cost saving alternative. But my source equipment, turntable and preamp, both have Omega Mikro cables because they do indeed sound better. As suggested, you must be prepared to treat the OM's with greater care.