Diving into Power... Cable recs for my system and ears....?

@ktarver I would encourage you to investigate the Shunyata research website, the founder has a PhD and used to work for the government, everything he does is based in science

here's the short version which I'm sure you will understand… AC Power is a 60 cycles sine wave and that wave is subject to noise that is beyond human hearing, that noise alters the shape of the waveform and the altered shape of that waveform affects the way that power supplies receive the AC power, and this is what makes the sound change…

It is through eliminating inaudible noise that we get closer to a pure sign wave at 60 cycles or 50 cycles or whatever it may be…

And this definitely changes the sound, in fact, I would bet you $10,000 that if you were in my studio and I changed out one power cord in my studio even you would hear it…

Engineering degrees skills aside, you could be nearly deaf, and as biased as you are ... and you would hear it, it's not subtle    

@devinplombier thank you, however, I'm only responsible for mastering Brothers, El Camino, and turn blue :)

@mclinnguy that's a difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons

I am proud of every record I do because it sounds good to me and it sounds good to the client. But if we step back from it, there are a handful that I think you might think are fantastic

The Teskey Brothers, the winding Way

Chet Faker, built on Glass

The Black Keys, Brothers

Michael Bublé, higher

The greatest showman soundtrack 

Marilyn Manson, the pale emperor

ok go, (newest record) 

Buddy Guy, ain't done with the blues

Ain't done with the blues and The pale emperor are two of my favorite albums. Pale emperor is Marilyn's best as far as I am concerned.

Naturally this topic inspires polar opposite opinions.  I have approached the problem by assuming power cables *probably* make a difference but I don’t have a lifetime to prove it one way or the other, nor do I have the deep pockets necessary  either.   But I wanted to do something because my power was particularly noisy.  So I decided to compromise.   I looked for reasonably priced power cables that are very well made. I tried Anticables but found them too stiff.  I wanted to buy Shunyata but I didn’t want to spend that much.  I turned to Iconoclast, available through Blue Jeans Cables.  They are beautifully made, very flexible, and most unusually, I could buy the exact length I needed to the inch.  This kept each cable off the floor and not touching any other power cable..  They sounded fine, which met my criteria of reasonably priced and ax. “good enough”. in SQ

On the issue of installing a dedicated line, I’d advise against it.  I had an electrician lay out  a temporary dedicated line running from my panel into my living room and we found it just as noisy as  all the other circuits in the house.  The electrician also tested the line coming directly into the  panel and it was equally noisy, clearly  indicating that installing a dedicated line would just cost me money I could spend more productively elsewhere.  I bought two Tripp-Lite Isolation Transformers instead, one for my digital components, one for my analog components, and they reduced noise to almost zero.