Does power cord length matter?


Recently the owner of a high end cable manufacturing company told me that the reverse of conventional wisdom was true in the case of power cords, and that the longer cable (2 meters) actually sounds better than a one meter cable. Is this true?
bmpnyc

Showing 2 responses by redkiwi

More is better, but up to a point. More can be better because of the filtering effect of the power cable. Generally lengths shorter than 5 feet sound worse than a 5 foot cable. But lengths greater than 10 feet sound worse than a 10 foot cable. Somewhere in between is usually optimum, but it all varies, both by power cord, and by the current required by the component. At the cost of a very good power cord, I would not usually recommend anything other than 5 feet due to the high cost and diminishing returns. But I would definitely recommend using a long power cord with monoblocks (or any amp), if by doing so you can reduce the length of speaker cables.