Right angle wall plug on power cables

Right angle is a custom fit that does not fit all the time ---so it’s the vertical off the socket as the norm. Where that space (around the wall plug) is more universal for a functional fit.

Also, a right angle plug has to be designed in this field and then marketed. Where it would not sell as well. as people want the universal fit, for use and for resale.

To add, they can be and generally are bulky, for high end audio. Not that that they functionally have to be bulky, but that the market has turned out that way.

And when marketing a plug, makers want to be able to sell as many into a market as possible, with the given level of investment (cost overall and per item) and universal application (sales, stocking, and marketing of the given item) --- so straight out plug types it is.

Basically there is a strong level of market forces in these decisions. Sales might 10 to one or higher in favor of the universal fit. This...in a small market, with the overhead in inventory and costs for the 10x less sales items being larger than in a more successful/average/universal (number of units moved) market.

Costs increases high enough that they have to be shared with the rest of the items that a given manufacturer might make... and this situation...slightly increases the costs which cascades into loss of margin and loss of competitiveness with other makers in their own area of product. Or they simply dump it all on the special right angled connector and it has a retail that is ~20-50% higher than the straight out one.

Then people would complain and ask why the right angled one costs so much.

Then start having an argument about how the right angle compromises the sound quality, or that their favorite bulk cable is being messed up by this connector and they can’t anally arrange the cable the way they want to and so on into an infinity of micro aggression/complaining and assessing (how does it sound, do we need to do sound quality comparisons?) the right angle connector --into a sales death.

There might even be some right angled ones that dies that sales death, already. And be bitched about the whole way down.

Then ask for one at a 45 degree angle in both plains, or, or or....maybe a pivoting unit..or...

One of those "ain’t no winnin’ with all the losin’ goin’ on..." Scenarios.

People be people and the world is what it is.

What he said. Plus they tend to be thick and stiff, routing is hard enough as it is this would only make it worse. Imagine a typical conditioner with 6 or 8 outlets, how's that gonna work with 90?

You can’t answer the man MC he wants answer from engineers not people that know WHERE and WHY they were made or needed.

After all he’s a DOCTOR.

Because I like MC, I’ll add, it's the WEIGHT and the type of load the plug usually caries.

Look where they are used.

1. They are used in places that have limited access or NEED to stay plugged in.

2. They are used on appliances that pull heavy start up loads and that need GOOD contact over time.

A right angle plug works great on refer, freezer, wall AC, and the like.

The plug is designed to remove the leverage/strain from the WALL socket/receptacle.

But then every time my life has been saved it has been by a lowly NURSE after a DOCTOR usually missed it..

Thank GOD for my heart Doctor though.. Though it did take TWICE to get the stint in the right place after 15 more heart attacks..

Nurse caught that too.. MC remembers. :-)

Regards

Never needed one.Good luck.

In theory it might be useful to have power cord plugs that did a ninety degree turn to the left, to the right, and down (towards the floor).  So three variants on the standard model.  If companies as big as Audioquest aren't doing that, nobody will.  (Market economics.)

All wall plugs in the UK have the cord coming out pointing towards the ground... it's just a safety device so that you don't pull the plugs out by using the cord. I've just realised that very few people in the US will have had the experience of accidentally treading on an upturned plug barefoot... it is a unique moment of agony followed by three nasty little bruises coming up on the sole of your foot.
Can't imagine the design has any impact on audio quality at all.

There is one, Furutech FI-12ML.
Believe you can order your cable with that plug fitted.

I was gonna read that review of Power cables but Audio Bacon certainly doesn't sound very sophisticated. How dreadful a name for an "expert" to put forth. Obviously his education and credentials are dubious. You should be ashamed for supporting such riff raff

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You mean like these ones?

Furutech FI-12L(R) Rhodium IEC - Furutech 15A/20A Plugs & IEC - (takefiveaudio.com)

Furutech FI-12LM(R) Rhodium Wall Plug - Furutech 15A/20A Plugs & IEC - (takefiveaudio.com)

A bit on the pricey side, but if the application requires one then this will do the trick

Regards

Yes and and the conductors are plated (G or R) pure copper. I would imagine a bit tricky to bent a 18cm dia. cable of 10-12awg.

Because at least 50% of the buyers will think that the cable exit angle from the plug is on the wrong side...

On page 5 of their pricebook, Nordost offers 8 plug alignments for their dealers to specify when ordering...also 4 each for tonearm DIN plugs and Ethernet plugs.

Thanks all. Got what I needed. 
"Enjoy the music!"