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

gbmcleod

I am familiar with the Furutech NCF receptacles, however I've only seen them in Rhodium plating.....if they were gold plated I might give them a try. Rhodium in almost any application (for me personally) is too bright/sibilant, maybe my ears are sensitive to it. However I have no issues with silver plated

@mclinnguy, If you want to install NM sheathed cable, (Romex Trade Name), you should use 2 conductor with ground, not 3 conductor with ground.

Better. than 2 wire with ground Romex cable.

Two conductor plus 1 ground MC (Metal Clad) is a good choice for Non-Isolated Ground A/V systems. MC cable contains a safety
grounding conductor (wire). The three conductors in the MC cable (Line, Neutral and Ground) are uniformly twisted, reducing both
induced voltages on the ground wire and radiated AC magnetic fields. The NEC article 250.118 (10)a prohibits the use of this cable for
isolated ground circuits because the metal jacket is not considered a grounding conductor, and it is not rated for fault current

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Better than 3 conductor with ground Romex, but not as good as Two conductor plus 1 ground MC (Metal Clad)

Two Conductor plus 2 ground MC (Metal Clad) may be used in an Isolated Ground installation, because the cable contains two
grounding conductors (one for safety ground and one for isolated ground).

The conductors are twisted, but the average proximity of the
hot conductor and the neutral conductor with respect to the isolated grounding conductor is not equal. Under load, this will induce a voltage along the length of the isolated ground wire, partially defeating the intent of isolation (see Ground Voltage Induction section of this paper).

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Same problem exists with 3 conductor with ground Romex cable.Three is company. Four is a crowd. What do you do with the bare unused wire? Just tape it off? It will act as an antenna. 

Something else to consider using 3 wire with ground Romex, a lot of it sold now days is flat,  not round spiral twisted. Unused conductor is a problem. 

10/3 Romex

 The black insulated conductor is the oddball. What will you do with it?

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So interesting... will process this info thank you all so much. 

I will soon get wired up so that I can run my amp plugged directly into the wall, but in the meantime, I will run just an extension cord from my current dedicated socket to my amp's 2 meter Anticable v3. 

QUESTION... currently my components run on a 12' Furman Power Conditioner ($30 nothing fancy). They will require 12' from their (upcoming) dedicated socket. Is this Furman "good enough" or do you all recommend something specific which much better results? Or given that it will be a dedicated socket, is this Forman okay?

Thanks,

r.

@whyrichard 

Don’t pay any attention to the cable naysayers. In the end, you are the one listening to your system, not them... or their oscilloscopes. Their main concern is asserting their supposed superiority, which in reality has very little to do with audio. The only way to verify how a particular cable and/or power conditioning device will sound to you is to demo it in your system. Personally, I've found power cables can make quite difference. You may find brands/models suggested here offer negligible, noticeable or significant improvements in your system but the only way to know for sure is to listen for yourself.

@ghdprentice I want to counter and say NO NO NO on the "preferred length" of a power cord.

It’s not 6 feet or 10 feet or anything .... changing length changes the sound, could be better or worse, all depends on the cord and what you’re doing with it in your system

Also, I tried all the AQ power and they are pricey junk IMO. I did not love anything they make in any application and the more expensive ones were the worst.

Shunyata is a better value for sure. 

@whyrichard Any power conditioner is adding things you don’t want.  There is some VERY low cost distribution on Ebay, like $100 that are simple and clean.

https://ebay.us/m/Y8jQnt