Hi Bar81 and all.
If I'm understanding you correctly, the issue isn't so much with componentry as to why after-market cords do what they do. It has much more to do with the AC service in your residence. There's a ton of stuff inside and outside the residence that affect that.
Depending on the design, there are a myriad of things power cords can do that can, for better or for worse, change the character of the AC powering your gear....even if it's only 4'-8'
This is huge considering when all is said and done, the music we listen to is basically the PSU in our gear being controlled and minipulated by all the other circuitry in the piece of gear.
So, it doesn't so much go to good or bad gear, but more about bad AC.
Hope that makes a bit of sense.
Kindly,
Robert
RSAD
08-23-07: Bar81
Isn't the fact that a power cable is making a "huge difference" indicative of issues in the rest of the system it's being used in, particularly where it's changing the sound of such system (as opposed to lowering the noise floor, etc.)?
If I'm understanding you correctly, the issue isn't so much with componentry as to why after-market cords do what they do. It has much more to do with the AC service in your residence. There's a ton of stuff inside and outside the residence that affect that.
Depending on the design, there are a myriad of things power cords can do that can, for better or for worse, change the character of the AC powering your gear....even if it's only 4'-8'
This is huge considering when all is said and done, the music we listen to is basically the PSU in our gear being controlled and minipulated by all the other circuitry in the piece of gear.
So, it doesn't so much go to good or bad gear, but more about bad AC.
Hope that makes a bit of sense.
Kindly,
Robert
RSAD