In the last month & a half I've made a few power cords that I'm very impressed with using Oyaide Tunami wire (purchased from Chris at VH Audio) and Neotech connectors from Parts Connexion. The wire is $30 a foot & the ends are $25 each (they are a discontinued model from Neotech that retail for $70 each). All that said, you can make a very good 4' power cord for $170 plus shipping. These PC's replaced Pangea 14's & a 9 as well as some older Tribularies. They are better in every way, not even in the same ballpark. In regard to the statement above about updating your equipment instead of wire; I've been using the same phono amp, preamp, power amp, & speakers for 10 to 20 years (depending on component), & can tell you first hand that wire matters. I like the Oyaide PC wire so much that I purchased more of that last week to try as speaker cable. Pretty dumb huh, not... Although it only has about 30 hours on it now, that has also made a large improvement to the sound. That wire replaced Morrows SP5 cable, which is also very good. I should add that my whole system with the exception of the sub, is run through a very large Exactpower transformer so that could also be why the difference in wire is so profound. I really don't know, but the investment was worthwhile.
