Nice Warm AC cord for a PLC


Hi everyone. Its been a lotta fun reading thru Audiogon and hearing about your experiences with your equipment. It sure helps in making decisions in trying new stereo stuff.

I'm looking for your experiences regarding power cords in line conditioners. I have a VansEvers Model 83 PLC. I absolutely love it! It makes my system sound wonderful (to my ears). I'd like to substitute the VansEvers cord with a bigger, fatter, juicier one, hopefully with a WARM sound.

Any suggestions? Thanks for reading this!
mapleleaf
847-329-8975 is David Blair's # for Custom Power which is valid. Dave is great to talk with & will help you out if he possibly can, even to the point of building custom cords as he has done for me. While I liked his Model 11 on amps, the Top Gun HCFI is even better. For source component he has a different Top Gun model available, or will build you a "special" per your custom requirements. All of his AC cords are heavily shielded & filtered in standard configuration. They are not the cheapest around, but if you want quality & performance I highly recommend Luxor Group.
Something you might be aware of is that the capacitor based line filters are normally bright as the devil for about five days even if unplugged for a few seconds....If you want to try different power cords on the unit then allow the time or you will get a false reading of where the cord and filter are going......Kevin Haskins' Asylum cord would be a good match for the Vans Evers units keeping in mind I designed it twenty years ago and also pay Mike Vans Evers a royalty on the line filters I manufacture as mine are essentially a cherry picked version of Mike's design built to a higher standard.....
Yeah, I've seen the Custom Cords in the Music Direct catalog. Pretty pricey if a get a high current one to fit the PLC...worth it? Thanks for all the info so far. Any more suggestions always appreciated.

BTW, Mike Vans Evers is a REALLY GREAT GUY. I had the chance to chat with him on the phone before I bought the PLC and he was really helpful. What scares me most is this...my system sounded SOOOOO much better after the 83, I started obsessing about what more potential could be locked up inside, waiting to be brought out by cables, cords, etc. Wonder what Bob's PLC sounds like? Arrgh!!!! It never stops, does it?

Bob, did you design Kevin's cord or Mike's PLC 20 years ago? Not clear from your text.

Bob, thanks for emailing me. I think I'll look into your HSR i squared (spelling?). Would it be good for a PLC too?
I designed what is now called the Asylum cord twenty years ago....I pay a Royalty to Mike Vans Evers for his electrical design of the line filters for all units sold by TG Audio.....The Asylum cord is the one to use with the PLC if you want warmth as the CPCC and TG would not be as sweet or call Mike as he probably has some suggestions.....The HSR-Squared is hard wired into my line filters known as LineSuckers or BybeeSuckers....
If you want a warm power cord, get one thats very very thin and I guarantee it will get warm. ;-) Any decent power cord of large enough wire gauge to supply adequate current to your gear should be sufficient. Having an engineering background, I don't subscribe to the idea that a power cord should be used to taylor the *sound* of your system. To me, this is bogus nonsense. I *do* understand the differences that interconnects and speaker wires can have on your system but to spend more than $50 or so on a power cord is a waste of money, IMHO. AbeCollins