McIntosh C2300 Power Cord Recommendation

Here's another one "Nordost Vishnu" power cord any thoughts?

I can not recommend a particular cord for your amp. However I can say that power cords do affect performance and sound of amps and source equipment. Not because I spent big dollars on them. I have five different cords all under fifty dollars. And everyone has a different sonic signature. And you don't need gold ears to hear this. So I recommend that you try for yourself and decide. You may want to call the cable co. and demo.

Gentlemen: One fact I neglected to mention is that 99% of all tube gear has a power transformer which the power cord is attached to. This transformer totally isolates the A/C line from the rest of the audio link inside the amp. Inside the amp, you have the rectifier (tube or silicon) and then you have the filter caps, regulators, etc. before the high voltage is applied to the tubes.

Any improvement with a new power cord can be attributed to the placebo effect. If you think it has made an improvement, you will "hear" the perceived improvement.

An actual true event which happened to me when I was in high school (c.1964) and worked in a TV repair shop after school and summer recess (for $1.25/hr.) This event woke me up to the reality of what some consider an improvement in their system.

We had a very cantankerous lady who lived by herself and called the shop to fix her TV when she thought there was something wrong with the picture quality. After a dozen or more service calls to her, my boss asked me to go there just to please a good customer, even though he knew there was nothing wrong with the picture quality. He told me what to do when I arrived, and like a good part time employee, I did exactly that.

I turned on the TV and asked her to show me which channel was the bad one. She turned the channel selector to Channel 2 and said see how bad this picture is.
I told her yes, I do see the problem. I told her that I have a way to correct it. Following my boss' instructions, I opened the cover with the horizontal, brightness, contrast, etc. knobs behind it. I then turned the vertical hold on the TV until the picture started to roll slowly. I then asked her to let me know which picture looks good and I'll stop the vertical roll and "keep it". She had me stop a few times and asked me to go back one frame. Still not satisfied, this went on for over 5 minutes.

Finally she yelled that's it! She said that's the best picture of all the ones I showed her. I locked in the vertical hold, left her home and we have never heard from her again.

Notbananas, I guess you have never heard the expression 'perception is reality'. Logic and common sense will never work with those who perceive to hear (see) a difference.

Salut, Bob P.

We also can't forget that there are hundreds maybe thousands of miles of wire in the grid. "Assuming" this could be an issue, doesn't it seem that you should need hundreds or thousands of miles of wire to "correct" the "problem" the first mentioned wires created?