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

@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.

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. 

@echolane  Dedicated lines need to be installed correctly or their performance will be compromised. Many electricians don’t know how to do this properly — mine didn’t.  Also, how were you measuring noise?  This doesn’t make much sense to me, and most here have found dedicated lines to be highly effective based on listening and not somehow measuring noise.  It’s well known that having audio equipment plugged into the same lines as noisy things like appliances, dimmer switches, etc. affect sound, and properly-installed dedicated lines definitely help alleviate that.

@brianlucey 

+1 Investigate Shunyata site. He has some great videos explaining the science behind power cords and how he first came to realize the differences they could make and why.