Should I upgrade the cable of my Line Conditioner?


Hi,

Just a simple question I hope.   I have the Furman Elite-15 Power Line Conditioner.    Should I use the stock power cable to connect the Furman to the electric outlet or should I try to use a high quality 3rd party power cable?   Will it improve the sound if I do?

Would like hear your experience.   

Thanks very much.

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Thanks for all the suggestions and comments so far.    I do use 3rd party power cords for all my components.  They are not expensive ones.   They are mostly Pangea power cords.   I'm not so sure if they are good power cords, but they give me peace of mind.   I think the Pangea cables are very much over promoted by Audio Advisor.  I've tried their IC, and they are just so so.

Anyway in general,  power cord is one area of my system that I haven't found big impact on my sound.   I wonder if it's because the Pangea cords are simply not up to snuff, or I just have very clean power from my electrical outlet.  I live in a high rise apartment building that's a little less than 20 years old.

My original question is about whether the line conditioner itself should use a better quality power cord than the stock one.   Seems like there are definitely many different opinions on this.   I was hoping not having to spend the money if I don't need to, but I guess I would have to try it out for myself.

Thanks.   Feel feel to suggest a few best bang for the buck power cords that I should consider!

@williewonka, thanks for the recommendation on Zavfino.  Will definitely check it out.

@ghdprentice, you are correct that I'm actually pretty happy with my current system.  In fact I recently upgraded a couple of IC and they have made a huge difference.  Do you remember your participation in this thread that I started a couple of months ago?

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/which-interconnect-cable-to-upgrade-first  

Also, thanks to your suggestion on tube amps on that thread, I had decided to do some research, and just placed an order on a Cary SLP-05 tube preamp at a pretty good sales price.   Now I can't wait to listen to it.  

@mike_in_nc,  thanks for your thoughtful comment.  Like I mentioned in my previous post,  upgrading power cords in my system does not seem to make much of a sound improvement so far.  That's why I was curious if upgrading the power cord of my line conditioner will make a difference.

@audphile1 

I was just curious if it's necessary to use an upgraded power cord for the line conditioner.   Since the job of the line conditioner is to supposedly generate 'clean' power,  why bother using an expensive power cord to feed it 'dirty' power.   That is my thinking, and that is why I posted this discussion.

Just like many other topics in this forum,  there are different opinions around this topic, so I guess I would have to try it and find out myself.   I was hoping not to spend the money if I don't need to.

BTW.  I posted this question to Furman support, and never heard back.  Oh well.