One Cord To Rule Them All


I'm seeking advice for a power cord to go from the wall outlet to my PSA P10 power regenerator. It needs to be 1.5M / 5 ft. and have the ability to pass 600 watts for many hours per day. My current PC is a Pangea AC-9, and my budget is about $200 to $300. The candidates I have so far are: Pangea AC-9 SE Mk ll, Audio Envy Ocean 3, or a PS Audio AC10 (used for about $300). Any thoughts? ... Thanks
koestner
koestner - can't say with certainty what will benefit your PSA regenerator.  Can say, I switched out the stock Istotek Premier on an Aquarius power conditioner for a Shunyata Venom HC and heard a significant improvement in sound.  I tried a Pangea AC9 on it but thought sound with the Venom HC was better.  I heard further improvement over the Venom HC when I tried a Shunyata Delta NR v1 and still more with a Shunyata Alpha NR v1.  The biggest step-change, however, was with the Venom HC.  Call The Cable Co. and you can rent a Venom HC or get in touch with Music Direct.  You can buy from MD with a long (45? or 60? day) money back return option.  Good luck.  Hope this helps.  
What gives you the impression the P10 needs a "better" pc than the already better than stock pc?

Power cords don't "pass" wattage. 

Just my experience-I plugged a $25K+ Nordost Odin II into my PP which normally is a Heimdall II. No angels singing/rainbows. The PP just did what it  normally does. I also did Nordost Blue Heaven vs Heimdall vs Pangea AC13Se=no noticeable difference.  


If your $5K "power regenerator" is going to regenerate the power anyway, and then you are going to run other power cords from the regenerator to the equipment you plug into it, then why not just use the largest gauge copper power cord that delivers current to the regenerator?  Your 9 awg Pangea AC-9 cord should be plenty large enough. I would be more worried about what is coming out of the wall.

I know some say it doesn't make any difference beyond a certain size but I have found otherwise after constructing power cords from 10 awg NOS WE wire and Furutech FI-11 connectors using 6 individual runs in a star-quad configuration - so an aggregate of 7 awg to each the load and neutral (and same to ground).  When run from dedicated 20A lines to my large monoblock amplifiers, the difference was a noticeable improvement over 10 awg Oyaide TUNAMI V2 power cables.  You can get basically the same cord from TRL as their Seven Plus - American Series, which is made from (you guessed it) pairs of NOS WE 10 awg wire.  I believe they braid rather than twist the wires (tomato-tomahto). 
I think no way you use 600 watts other than maybe for a fraction of a second if you turn everything on all at once. 

A used Synergistic Research Master Coupler is right in your budget range. Big, bold, detailed and very well balanced. There's a reason they sell used for about what they went for new 30 years ago.
I'm thinking about a Cullen cable for a Furman it 20 I powering two monoblocks but I only need a 4' PC. His top model is only around 350