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Does power cord for desktop PC matter?

I recently dabbled into power cords from the basic ones and the improvements have been tremendous. I use my desktop as a source, not ideal but it's where I do most of my music discovery and this is my preferred method. 

I'd like to ask you fellas with experience, do power cords for desktop matter for the sound?

I plan to get a very nice (affordable) active USB cable at a later date for the PC. I just want to keep it simple and deal with power cables at this time. Thanks y'all.

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danager
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Everything matters.  

Whether it's audible or not only you can make that decision.  USB can be quite noisy as it has a 5V line that transmits your computer power to your other devices.  

I use a powered USB hub and a USB power blocker dongle to isolate the computer power from the DAC.  I would think that this would make a bigger difference than the PC power cord but YMMV

 

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