Power cable for REL sub -- modestly priced

@millercarbon Do you think it would make a difference to a sub to go from the mfr supplied cord which is 10 gauge to a 14 gauge cord? If not, then this is going to be one inexpensive shopping experience (for once).

Well first of all if you have one try it and see. I doubt you will notice any difference. 

Here's why I say that. My Medusa power center is this Frankenstein monster that goes back a good 20+ years. Back then I played a lot of CD and had wired the thing with an isolation transformer for the CD outlet. CD doesn't need a lot of power so it was a 25W transformer. Silver wire. The wires going in and out of this are not much thicker than a hair. We had a word for this typically thick and curly sort of hair back in the day, pretty sure not supposed to use it any more. Pity. Would come in handy right now. Anyway point is all the power going to the CD outlet had to go through this 25W transformer with the, uh, hair thin wire.

Can you see where this is going? When the 2 Dayton sub amps were added: Oh there's an empty outlet let's use that one. And the bass was.... awesome. Absolutely awesome. Except, sometimes at the highest levels the lowest bass would clip. Rather obviously. Other than that, anything less than earth shattering levels everything seemed fine. 

Eventually I open the Medusa up to do something and discover to my horror I was running two thousand watt amps off one 25W transformer! 

Needless to say I re-wired and with the amps now plugged into an outlet with 14 ga wire there never is any clipping, ever, and the bass does have a little more slam. But nowhere near what you might think. In fact I would lay odds if I posted the question what will happen if two thousand watt amps are run through one 25W transformer with hair thin wire everyone would say, RU nuts its gonna explode! Burn out. Or worse. Anything but what actually happened, which was nothing.

Try what you have. Be careful with the advice you get around here. DYODD.

Before you suggest high dollar cords, please know that I'm not a skeptic, but am tapped out for power cords. And, for what it's worth, I had a Pangea AC9 1 meter power cord which I experimented with using my REL. Made zero difference. In fact, in an exchange with REL, they said this: "A while back, REL tested some third party power cords with our subs but did not find a noticeable impact."

So REL tested "some" third party PC and "did not find a noticeable impact." Probably because power cords tend not to have a noticeable impact with subs. Another example of just how different low bass is from everything else. 

Look at my system. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 All that crazy stuff- Cones, elevators, tweaks of every kind- every single one of them was tried and compared and proven or its not there. So what's not there? Check out the crap IC going to the subs. Cheapest IC in the system. Absolute trash. Tried a bunch of others, no difference, so trash it is. Subs don't care. 

Notice Electraglide fat boy PCs going to the Dayton sub amps? Know why they're there? Because I had em, just sitting in a drawer, and they're the perfect length. Only reason. Notice cheap gray crap rubber power cord going to the Talon Roc sub? Guess why. I had it. Its long enough. It gets power to the sub. Save your money. Buy whatever extension cord you can find that's decent gauge and save your money for where it will make a difference.