Grounded vs. ungrounded power cord


I recently purchased an Integra DTC 9.8 processor, and when hooking it up, was surprised to find that it had an ungrounded ac inlet! All of my other equipment uses grounded power cords, and over the years I have acquired a number of mid to high end pc's. This may seem like a silly ?, but can I use one of my nicer grounded cords, instead of the cheap ungrounded cable that Integra supplies? Thanks for the help!
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Showing 1 response by celtic66

This comes up often enough. PS Audio offers(ed) a removable pin PC for just this purpose. An engineer friend runs all of his equipment without grounding plugs. Claims it is much cleaner sounding. Another friend runs his recording studio entirely without grounding pins for the same purpose of cleaner sound.

Last time this came up, several responses addressed fire potential and other dangers of Biblical proportions. Homes were wired for decades WITHOUT 3 pin outlets and all of them did not burn down so it is an interesting question.