The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance


This is a journey through real life experiences from you to everyone that cares to educate themselves. I must admit that I was not a believer in power cords and how they affect sound in your system. I from the camp that believed that the speaker provided 75% of the sound signature then your source then components but never the power cord. Until that magic day I along with another highly acclaimed AudioGoner who I will keep anatomist ran through a few cables in quite a few different systems and was "WOWED" at what I heard. That being said cable I know that I am not the only believer and that is why there are so many power cord/cable companies out there that range from $50 to 20-30 thousand dollars and above. So I like most of you have to scratch my head and ask where do I begin what brand and product and what should i really pay for it?

The purpose of this discussion to get some honest feed back on Price to Performance from you the end user to us here in the community.

Please fire away!


 


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Showing 2 responses by dutchydog

 I agree with you on the difference of power cords make on my system a few Kimber cables that cost between three and five hundred bucks I really don't want to spend more on it because I have this fear that you are dealing with the laws of diminishing returns very expensive power cords to me are not going to sound 10 times better than a three or four hundred dollar power cord
I own a brand new pass lab XP 27 and I also purchase some Cardas cables to hook up to my amplifier which is also passed lab when I first started listening to it it sounded so horrible that I could not take no matter how much I adjusted the dials to get to the right cartridge response my feelings were that things just had to break in but after a month and it was still almost terrible to listen to I got heartsick spending all that money and afraid to play my turntable it wasn't until a friend suggested that I put a high-quality power cord on my XP 27 to solve the problem so I bought a Kimber kable PK 14% right off the bat I heard the best sound the come out of my stereo and a long time so power cables definitely make a difference