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Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers?

The reason I am asking is I feel manufacturers of high quality components include all that is ever needed, power cable wise. Sure, some people buy power cables because they need special lengths or have some out of the ordinary "noise" issues that need extra insulation. Some even like the visual aspect of the aftermarket cables. I’m just curious why many spend thousands of dollars on such when the manufacturer has taken the power cable into account when producing the product. I cannot see a High-quality audiophile component maker (especially some that sell volume) pass on a few dollars for a better sounding power cable if indeed the cable improved their product. I cannot see a person buying that $7000 amp is not going to balk if the product was introduced at  $7100 (with the better cable). 

I wonder if Luxman, Accuphase, McIntosh, Gryphon...you name it "dressed" their power cables up to look like expensive aftermarket cables, owners would be so quick to "upgrade"?

I’d be curious to hear Ralph’s opinion on the subject

aberyclark

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jetter
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@soix 

I came away thinking that Atmasphere cleverly skirted answering the question of whether or not expensive power cables of the SAME gauge will improve the sound of an amplifier versus their less expensive counterparts.

Instead, I thought that what he was writing is that a power cord needs to be of significant gauge to handle amplifier voltage drop.

I believe that you (and maybe Atmasphere if I misinterpreted his post) are implying that power cables of the same gauge can carry different amounts of voltage from each other?  

jetter
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I easily hear differences in interconnects and speaker cable on my mid level system.

All my power cables are lower/ middle level Cullen and one Zavfino.  They are the only power cords I use and I don’t have the energy or desire to compare to any others.  Those who also have challenges getting behind their rigs will understand.

I know this has been discussed to death.

I can understand why cables in the music signal path will impact sound.

But I still do not understand how two similar gauge cables of different purity metals and qualities, both delivering equal power to a transformer, can impact sound.  EXCEPT if one has some sort of gizmo to filter noise out of the electricity if the power is "dirty" and the unit’s transformer can’t filter it

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