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Old 11-02-2017, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by docmd2010 View Post
Also, which power cord is the most important? i.e. if you were going to buy one really expensive cord and be a little more modest on the other ones, where does the expensive cord go?
What I've done in my bedroom audio system doesn't quite answer your question, since my decision involves an earlier and a later version of the same two-meter-long midrange-in-the-product-line power cord (though the earlier is "cheaper" by virtue of having been purchased used). And I'm only in the second day of listening following the arrival of the newer cord. So bear that caveat in mind.

I've run the earlier power cord from the wall outlet to the "power conditioner" --actually three duplex outlets and a filter network silicon-caulked to the inside of a six-inch-diameter PVC pipe. The newer cord runs from the "conditioner" to the system's digital-to-analog converter.

As noted, I'm very early in the audition cycle, but I'm gobsmacked by the results thus far. I expect to write up a review detailing specifics in the appropriate manufacturer's forum after I've had more time to listen (and have finished a current writing project that's now at 55,000 words and begging me desperately for a compelling denouement).

Nonetheless, at this point I'd offer the following rationale for my power-cord placement decision (and perhaps for what I'm hearing): Those who advance the theory that a component's power cord is not the last two (or whatever) meters of what's being fed by the power grid but rather the first two that the component "sees" may well be onto something. All I can say is that my DAC seems to get quite a charge out of it.

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