Aftermarket power cable for power conditioner?

I've found so far that the 'feed' cable to the cond is as valuable and or integral as is any other... sometimes more so, as it sets a broader table given more items are then downstream of it's influence, as in a power filter/cond.

conponents using their single pc have solely that pc's influence.

In fact, in my arrangements the feed cable is more $$$ than those which feed off it. That wasn't the idea going in. It just worked out that way... and work for me it does.

I'd likely be as well off were the feed cables liekwise to those downstream ones... yet for my preffs... I have what I have.

A certain amount is by way of a 'trickle down' result. or from a previous application no longer valid for me, and the cables across the board were then improved upon.

Ex... Since I saw the advantages of running dual mono or simply mono amps, I've gone from Stock pc's to Audience, to Voodoo Black Dragons, to Gold Dragons, to Taipan helix's now, on my main amp (s0. i had an Elrod Sig III briefly on a Sterreo amp... that amp got gone but the Elrod stayed.

Along came a RSA Haley and the Elrod Sig III used then as a feed was a no brainer to use with it.

The Gold D's slid down to the Dd15 sub, and another 2 ch amp. Simple.

I call it the "Grow as you go... or as you can" program.

Another rant From your local “on & On” member….on the futility of perfectly optimizing system components with cabling….

Yet the reason to at least try.

The only note I’d add here is about the ‘trying’ aspect of cabling. Power cords or Ics…. Or for that matter, speaker cables, in order to optimize a system…. Not to patch over glaring issues.

The prime issue with cabling, once one actually tries decent cabling and realizes they do affect the sound, is the sheer combinations of brands and models available to be ‘tried’!

It’s more than daunting! It’s mind boggling!

No one can or could ever infuse, examine, accept or reject all the possible itterations, and their subsequent possible combinations even with a integrated amp and a single source!... let alone a system comprised of all separates with multiple sources!!

Anyone who has do let me know. Please.

No one can or will I assure you.

A couple three years ago, I went thru trying out at the onset, just 6 or 7 brands and/or models within those brands, and wound up auditioning about ten in all. It tooke me about 7 months or better as some were brand new and required run in.

Listening to the same dozen or so CDs for the better part of a year is towards the end, sublime torture. One must consider or try merely one at a time too, if actual changes or improvements are to be recognized.

Looking back as I approached the end of the trials, I felt I could conceive of possible previous combinations for future applications, which then were untried as solutions… So that would have been just guess work. True enough, some inkling of their own voice was achieved as I did use more than one system very often to glean results of the wires from, though the combined effect of brand X + brand Y in truth, remained a mystery, in spite of the educated hypothesis’s I could then surmise..

A systematic approach is required IMHO for integrating either components or cabling into an audio rig. Pick an end to start at and go from there..

Same + same throughout is easiest. Same brand + different models comes in second place for optimizing as it’s more difficult, but I’d think better chances for gain would be had that way. More pertinent results too, as each device is being considered at greater lengths.

Thereafter comes the various brands and various models in those brands for optimizing each and every individual device. Naturally that means both the IC and PC attached to it!

This latter method appeals to my more masochistic tendencies. This route is the most arduous and time consuming, and yes… it’s pure guess work at times, until the proper brand/model is attained…. And that end may or may not ever come to pass…. As again… there’s too freakin’ many wires out there to contend with!!!!

Yet even then, the end result derived at with as much objectivity as is possible, remains a subjective and imperfect product.

If you could run through them all, by that time, therre’d be further iterations of what you’ve already tried out awaiting their own turns in your array!!

So my best guesstimation of how folks do what they do with power cords, conds, and cabling, is that they push along to the limits of their paitience and then settle, or compromise. On something, somewhere. Or they give up completely and toss in for another component instead. Some won’t do that much. Other’s will throw pennies at their pricey collection and expect premium effects.

Or, as was said, by “pasting” over some irritating sonic deficit, or attenuating some other minor issue. Without such compromises I’d have blind squirrels juggling butcher knives in my brain all the time… as that pit has no bottom. Then and there, the ‘fun’ is entirely evicted from the past time. And severe disappointment moves right on in.

So I, and dare say, ‘we’ must compromise. Somewhere, on something, to some extent. How much though, and in which area (s) seems the real questions each audio nut answers routinely.

BTW The shortest road of all is to simply never try a particular aspect of audio as it might interfere with preconceived ideals, training, knowledge, and or simply makes no sense at the time to the rig builder..

Of course, to never strive .to gain personal experience and continually debunk or condescend such a prospect, is how ignorance really thrives, and prejudices rise up.

I feel there’s tons of very good to great gear out there for sure. Spending time eeking out it’s highest potential performance level takes time and care with wires, isolation, and possibly addressing the incoming power line faults and artifacts. IMHO that’s as valuable as is the synergy between components, and the matching criterium some devices have as prerequisites. Don’t do these things, and the truth of them remains an unknown, and the best your gear can hand you is never going to be your’s.