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High priced power cable what about the romex

I have a question that I tried to post before but for some reason it was flagged by the moderators.

I have nice looking power cable some signal, some MIT, some home made, and they look like they should do a great job, could even run a small town

My question is if you run romex from the fuse box to your high priced outlet, and then plug in your high priced powercable, how will this improve the path from the fuse box to the outlet? And if it doesnt why not just run the same romex to your HiFi.
How does a better grade power cable improve the path from the main grid.
I have heard this again and again "Your system is as good as its weakest link" So isnt the romex one of those weak
links?

I am sure there is a good responce to this and I am not trying to be negitive in regards to high priced power cords but what am I missing?
punkuk

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jeff_jones
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Punkuk - Powercords (and digital cables, sheesh, don't get me started) are one of those things that for the most part owe their continued survival to the power of suggestion and the avoidance of blind testing.
However, as one plush digital cable owner told me, "if I think it is better and it makes my toe tap, then it is". This ain't my perspective but I think he had a point.
jeff_jones
418 posts
 
Redkiwi - Interesting moniker. In any case, yes I've fiddled with digital cables and power cables. I've still got two fancy power cables and acoustic zen's digital cable connected in my system fwiw, (When I take up hours of a dealers time or otherwise cause significant expense for an audition I always feel like I ought give at least a small sale, and they look cool). On the power cable side, the cable that JPS labs markets as their digital AC cable seems to have a suppression network molded into the plug & this does seem to have a positive effect when connected to my dac. Else, theoretically and emphirically my conclusion is that this stuff is a tax on folks who won't blind test. But it does look cool, and if somebody thinks something sounds better, then it does sound better for practical purposes.
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