Upgraded power cables- Who's on First?

What? (2nd base)

How are we supposed to help if we don't know what pc's you have on hand to deal with now?

If you don't feel like moving your pc's around to find out which sounds best to you, then whereever you have them now is best.

For me to say put your brand X on this and brand Z on that, and not even knowing which one is which leaves me thinking...

'I don't know'.... 3rd base!

So we don't have to be psychics tell us what pcs you have and a bit more of your audio affair.

Why? (center field) ...There's more to it.

RE PS:
cost of the item will tell you something about the power supply in a piece.... something, but not everything. Some say the more effect a conditioner has on a thihng the less effective or robust is that items' power sup.

>>>"If you have 2 upgraded power cables to use where is the the best place to use them?"<<<

You may want to look at this from a different perspective ... most power cords are built in various configurations and designed for specific applications

High current amps and power conditioners generally benefit for larger gauge conductors that can deliver high bursts of current un-impeded

Low level sources and pre amps will benefit from cables whose construction can deliver constant ... non varying ... rock steady ... linear current ... the clocks in our digital components do no like swings in current as they use it for timing ... varying current = swings in the clock's timing = bad mojo

Analog components usually don't require extra shielding as they generally don't balloon RF as a by product of their operation into the surroundings

Digital components usually benefit from shielding as they do tend to balloon RF into the surroundings as a by product of their operation ... which can then couple to the other components in your system

IMO you need to determined what type of power cords you have

...(>>>"If you have 2 upgraded power cables to use"<<<)

... and how and where their design will work best with which one of your particular components

The other side of the coin and an opposite approach is to look at the component's requirements in your system for a power cord and then purchase a cord that best matches that component requirements

You wouldn't put a set of 16x32 ripple wall Drag slicks on your VW Rabbit or a set of premium snow tires on your Bugatti Veyron

I viewed your system and by the looks of your home ... your probably driving the Veyron

I feel cable / component matching is the most critical followed by positioning

If you have the right cable component match ... Then IMO wall to power conditioner will benefit all components followed by source to power conditioner as any information lost at the source can not be recovered down stream

Big power amps tend to have very robust power supplies and storage capacity that seem to respond less dramatically to power cords ... but you still need to mate with the right designed cord

Power cords can not improve the in coming current but they can definitely severely degrade it when mismatched

>>>"I really am too lazy to do hours of testing"<<<

"Education is what you obtain when you read the small print ... Experience is what you get when you don't"

Understand your products design and function or you will be out in Left Field batting Flies

Baseball fans:

So we don't have to be psychics tell us what pcs you have and a bit more of your audio affair.

I have a Signal Magic PC $100 and a Virtual Dynamics $$$ model and price unknown.

Power cords can not improve the in coming current but they can definitely severely degrade it when mismatched

now you are scaring me.

When you all say you still need to mate your amp with the right designed cord? Does this mean that the designer of said unit did not take this into account when listening to the finished product? Also stated Low level sources and pre amps will benefit from cables whose construction can deliver constant ... non varying ... rock steady ... linear current ... the clocks in our digital components do no like swings in current as they use it for timing ... varying current = swings in the clock's timing = bad mojo
So the designer of a digital component didn't hear the different swings in current when detemining what power cord size or configuration to use? This sounds very fishy to me and the only way to eat this up would be a nice dry white wine to swallow all these so called misinforamtion.

From Single Cable website: Signal Magic PC Application: Power Amplifiers, Powered Subwoofers, Analog Preamplifiers and Power Conditioners

The VD cord is probably a Virtual Dynamics power 3 and is recommended for use anywhere but from my experience with this cord it seemed better suited for A-D & D-A converters and CD players. That is just a guess though as to what cord it probably is.

Without you actually moving the cords around and listing for yourself your really not going to know what position sounds best for each cord.

Perfect example is I have an Elrod Sig 3 which really was meant to go on amps while the Elrod Sig 2 was for cdp's and such,I personally didn't like the Sig 2 on my cdp but loved the Sig 3 there, now on my tube amps I used Electraglide Epiphany X power cords which again I was told were for source applications, pre-amps, and line conditioners and not so much amps BUT I liked them on the amps more than anywhere else in the system so the point is until you swap your cords around your not going to know!!