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Hi,

How important is the quality of power cords in a high end system?
Does it really make a difference in sound?

Thanks,

Vasilis

How important is the quality of power cords in a high end system?

A year ago I was looking to buy a secondhand amplifier and found what I
wanted at a price I was willing to pay but it had an "improved" power
cable. I had two problems: firstly, people who do this sort of thing
are unlikely to be competent at working with electronic components and,
secondly, if someone saw me using an amplifier with a fancy power cable
it would be embarrassing. Replacing power cables devalues the resale
price of an amplifer (as do most modifications).

Does it really make a difference in sound?

What are the chances that a company cabable of designing and
constructing an audio amplifier is going to use an inadequate power
cable?

It does raise an interesting point though. When the nonsense around
speaker cables took off, speaker companies had to stop supplying
speaker cables. If they supplied normal wire it put off audiophiles and
if they supplied fancy cables the more technically competent would be
put off. Have the manufacturers of audiophile amplifiers started
supplying amplifiers without power cables?

On 18 Oct 2005 04:01:16 -0700, "
wrote:

Does it really make a difference in sound?

Only if it doesn't reach.

Kal

When you asked the question what answer were you looking for ? This news
group is fully of highly qualified experts who will tell you that cables
make no difference. Those who believe differently have ceased to argue.
Russ Andrews offers sale or return, claims great things for his cables and
gives reasons why he says they work, he would he sells cables as do lots of
other companies. Would I spend £800 on a mains cable I thought made the
music sound better, no! but I have bought Kimber mains and heard an
improvement. Some will say this is either just in my mind and that on a DBT
I would not be able to tell the difference or that my system is flawed and
badly designed. Why not try a few cables and let us know if it made any
difference for you ?
Regards Richard
New Ash Green Hi-Fi Club
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Hi,

How important is the quality of power cords in a high end system?
Does it really make a difference in sound?

Thanks,

Vasilis

In article ,
Richard Wall wrote:
When you asked the question what answer were you looking for ? This
news group is fully of highly qualified experts who will tell you that
cables make no difference.

That's not strictly true. Try 'adequately' specified cables.

Those who believe differently have ceased to argue. Russ Andrews offers
sale or return, claims great things for his cables and gives reasons why
he says they work, he would he sells cables as do lots of other
companies. Would I spend £800 on a mains cable I thought made the music
sound better, no! but I have bought Kimber mains and heard an
improvement.

So would you expect the same improvment if you used that lead on an
electric kettle? Faster boiling? Because although interconnects and
speaker cables have to be able to handle varying frequencies etc, a mains
cable doesn't. And it's also connected to many yards of mains cable
feeding the socket. Then many miles of cable feeding the house from the
power station.

Some will say this is either just in my mind and that on a
DBT I would not be able to tell the difference or that my system is
flawed and badly designed. Why not try a few cables and let us know if
it made any difference for you ?

Everyone who decides to buy designer mains cables *will* hear a
difference. Pavlov's dog, etc.

Regards Richard New Ash Green Hi-Fi Club

Right. ;-)

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Hi,

How important is the quality of power cords in a high end system?
Does it really make a difference in sound?

Thanks,

Vasilis

Mains power integrity does not come into phonic consideration at all. Just assume it's always there on hand.
The audio (data, video, or whatever else) is routed, manouevred, amplified and output from a multi-stage device running off a PSU (or several) whose low or medium voltage is now modified to give stable high-quality DC.
So, the answer to your poser is a big No!
Now go worry about something else.
Jim