Power cable from wall socket to power strip


Hej

Firstly; yes I believe that cables makes a difference. All cables. I don’t want a discussion with ”non believers”.

I use a power strip (Wireworld Matrix 2) which is connected to the wall socket with a Furutech Empire. But now I need a little longer power cable and I thought; does the power cable from the wall socket to the power strip really matter? I mean, all the way to my wall socket it’s just ordinary wire, so why should the part to the power strip matter. It’s just the last bit to the devices that matters, I’ve been told. Or…?
What are your thoughts about this?

simna

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I have an old Shunyata 4 outlet Hydra power conditioner bought at reduced price on Ebay. Only the CD transport and Holo May dac are plugged into it. The conditioner was not making a very noticeable difference until I plugged a Shunyata Delta AC power cord ( from dedicated line Hubbell hospital wall outlets to conditioner) into it. That made a very noticeable difference for the better. This cable is made specifically for Shunyata power conditioners and has enough pure silver in it to make it expensive.

All of the rest of my power cables are Level 3 AntiCables which I like a lot though the all copper blades need to be de-oxidized periodically.

People harp and argue a lot about cables not making a difference because how could they - they can only be as good as the mains power feeding them, but my take has always been that any wire is essentially a filter. That filtering can be executed cleanly or not.

I also made some mineralized grounding boxes (signal ground type) for the transport, dac and subwoofers and that lowered noise floor enough to distinctly hear a difference.

Tweakers have more party.

@coralkong 

This below is the Shunyata cable you may be remembering. I have one connecting my 4 outlet Hydra to the wall. It made a very noticeable difference in sound quality without squashing dynamics. My Hydra only conditions two power cables - to my CD transport and dac. I find that connecting pre and power amp cables to the Hydra steps on dynamics too much.

Shunyata Alpha XC