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Power cords

Is there any truth to the following which, as you can tell from the quotation marks, is not my brainchild (my brain is childless...). I picked it up from the site of a well respected amplifier manufacturer and trust I am not committing some sort of legal or moral transgression by reproducing it here:
"When you plug your power cord into the wall outlet you are in 'SERIES' with all the wire on the other side of the wall all the way back to the power source. The small length of power cord from the wall to the amp is insignificant compared to the miles of wire it is connected to. As long as the power cord can deliver the current and voltage required to drive the amplifier to full power it is as good as it can get."
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seandtaylor99
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You are in series with a bunch of wire back to the source. You're also in parallel with a bunch of other home electronics.
Whether power cords make any difference I haven't bothered to find out, since I'm a died in the wool skeptic.
I'm interested to see if your thread attracts (the same old, same old) lively debate or whether others have "cable debate fatigue".
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