How to upgrade "power cord" on turntable with wall wart?


Hello, I am in the process of upgrading the power cords on my components. 
Is there a way to upgrade the power cord on my Pro-ject 12 Xtension TT ?   
 It has the skimpy wall wart.

Thanks

Mike
mikepaul

Showing 6 responses by chakster

A whole bunch of people have made the comparisons and consistently reported that power cables do indeed sound different. You claim the right to say they are nuts. Why? Please explain.

Well, i think i already explained why i think power cable for turntable is the last thing to worry about. In my opinion this is just a last meter of the conventional dirt cheap power cable connected to our wall outlet.

If your power cables connected to pure source of clean energy (or power conditioner) than from this device to your equipment it is important i can accept it. In this scenario the length of the conventional power cable is irrelevant, because the there is a power conditioner at the end, this device is a starting point for better cable to out equipment.

As i said i have some very nice power cables, but i don’t have power conditioners or some other source of pure energy. So i think even for the phono stage or amp those expensive cables make a tiny difference. It is worth to have them if in the future there will be some special device between my wall outlet and my equipment.

This is my opinion.

Interconnect cables or speaker cables can make a huge difference in sound, but they are connecting directly two devices and there is music goes through these cables. It’s another story.

According to your logic applied to power cables i could upgrade conventional 1m length interconnect by soldering 5cm of exotic cable directly to it on one end, right ? This is what you do when you add 1m audiophile power cable to wall outlet with about 20-100m conventional power cable goes from the outlet somewhere out of your house.

Snake oil !

P.S. Build your own  hydroelectric power station for better result. 





Well, technically, music doesn’t go through any of those cables. There is no music signal until the speakers generate one. What goes through interconnects and speaker cables is actually the same thing that goes through power cords - alternating voltage and current.


I expected someone will make a comment like this, lol 
It is NOT the same and you know it, because with interconnect it goes from the source directly to the speakers. 

When you supply power to turntable it's just for torque, rotation is stable with whatever cable if the turntable is high quality, now sure what exactly you are trying to upgrade here with different power cable? 

But cartridge coil wire, pins, headshell wire, tonearm wire, phono cable, interconnect cable, speaker cable responsible for the music as the signal traveling from A (source) to B (speaker) through these cables.

The source of electricity is not even in your house and the route is way too long to your wall outlet. I think in my country power cable is nothing special up to my wall outlet, so why the last meter of high-end power cable can change anything ? Please explain if you know it. 

Another analogy:
Imagine conventional turntable with regular cable inside the tonearm (about 25cm) and conventional external phono cable (about 70cm), then change 2cm headshell lead wires for "something special" and try to detect any difference. I doubt that better lead wires can change anything if the rest of the cables is just crap. 

Then replace the rest of the cables (inside the arm and external phono cable) for "something special" inslucing better connectors and listen again. I bet in this scenario you will hear the difference. 

   
Once I inserted it into the system, there was an immediate and noticeable increase in PRAT. Going back to the stock cord, the PRAT diminished noticeably.


How can you explain it ?
I bet you believe in fuse upgrade too

The each of us has to end up like this dude in Japan
Yes, can be good for amp and preamp, but for turntable power supply it doesn’t matter in my opinion.

You can upgrade tonearm wire instead, external phono cable (or cartridge if you want huge different in sound)

power cable for turntable is the last thing, really
Please recall what type of power cable goes to your outlet and what type of outlet it is, something special? What's the point to change 1 meter of the power cable from turntable motor to the outlet if the rest of power cable is just regular power cable you can buy very cheap. There is no audio signal goes throught turntable motor, so it is not the same case as with the amps/preapms. 

If you care about pure electricity then you have to change cables in your house or in your flat. Or maybe power conditioner, pure energy ??? Your own electro station? ))


Speaking about turntable power cable in general
Not sure about US standards, but could you explain how a short piece of POWER cable connected to TURNTABLE compensate for x100 times longer cheap power cable going from the wall outlet somewhere outside of my flat and connected to console in my house where we have 14 apartments on 7 floors. Why the last piece (1m) of power cable is important for turntable while another 100m of power cable is not important?

Thick cable that you have with your desktop computer is bad? Cable of the same thickness hidden in the walls in our flats. So to improve a 100m cable you just have to add 1m of different cable on one end according to this logic? And this is the cable that just supply voltage to turntable motor that rotate the platter.

I just don’t get it. Maybe i’m stupid?

I use all my turntables with stock power cables, i have expensive power cables for some of my amps, preamps. Manufacturers supply regular power cables. BTW I’ve seen the power cable behind my wall outlet.

I can get the idea of power conditioners and pure energy devices, but why 1m of a better cable connected to 100m of conventional power cable makes any difference? Please explain this phenomena.

Would you like to replace another 100m of the power cable behind your wall outlet then, and how far you can go ?