Power Cable Suggestions.

@wokeuptobose - The more I learn about cables the more I am convinced that the vast majority of products are not engineered at all and instead the result of trial and error or an adaption from other products with a little pseudoscience added in to make them appear like something’s different. 
 

One company that truly engineers their cables is Iconoclast. They provide all of the information for how their cables were designed with the only limitation being Belden’s manufacturing capabilities. It’s interesting to me that Iconoclast has speaker cables, unbalanced interconnects, and balanced interconnects in their Iconoclast branded products and then their a BAV lineup that are a more practical version of each. The BAV lineup is the only place they sell an SPDIF or power cables and both are just a very intentionally constructed cable using existing Belden parts. A 5 foot power cable is around $250, so certain priced in line with a budget friendly audiophile offering. I believe that if they felt like they could design a better cable they would have. I have yet to spend $250 for a power cable, but if that was around my price range it’s the one I would try. They have a full return policy and I would be confident that it was an “engineered” cable. 

Those Cerious Tech look very nice. I might try it even if new. I gave the IceAge cables a try and they were comically terrible. I compared the IceAge Franken to AQ Blizzard and the Franken might as well have been lamp cord. There was a very significant drop in audio quality when I switched from the AQ Blizzard to the IceAge Franken. And I know its not fair to compare the Franken to the Blizzard, but the IceAge man was comparing his cable to the AQ Dragon....

I should have known better, but I was willing to give it a try. Those IceAge cables are on par with Viborg/Monosaudio cables but cost $200 more. In fact, they look almost indistinguishable from them. And I would be willing to compare them against each other in my system and I would not be at all surprised if the Chinese ones perform better. I think I will do that and come back with the results. The CullenCables at least have a very good description.The IceAge ones don't have much to go by, not that it matters because they were terrible!

I can’t say I understand the gravitation towards cables that are made by some DIYer in their basement. You rely on someone voicing their cables in their system as opposed to companies that design cables to be as least intrusive and as transparent as possible. Puzzling but hey it’s your money.

I gave the IceAge cables a try and they were comically terrible.

If it’s new you need to give it at least 100 hours of playing time for it to break in otherwise you’re probably not hearing the cable near its ultimate best.  Lotsa cables take a good amount of time to reach peak performance and some don’t sound good at all outta the box.