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Silly Question: Short Power Cord + Ext. Cord?

If an expensive power cord is too short, would the use of a cheap 12 g. extension cord from the cord to the wall degrade the sonics? Are you the defeating the purpose of the upgraded cord?

The argument would be:

(1) The house wiring is cheap 14/3 stuff anyway, so doing this wouldn't really make the source of electricity any inferio.

(2) Above argument supports the belief that high grade power cords make their sonic difference through filtering, altering, cleaning of the raw AC. Hence, this would have no effect?

I've considered cords for sale that were too short, and wondered if this would be a viable solution -- or is this audiophile HERESY!
kevziek

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drhst20
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I am having the same issue as you are Kevziek. I am planning to plug my amp and DCC2 directly into the wall using my hi-end power cords, and then plug my philips transport into one of my high end power cords and then into an extnesion cord. The reason is that I do not have enough sockets (I have two nearby and need three), and when I pluged my DCC2 into a multi prong adaptor before hitting the wall socket, it killed the systems dynamics. The amps handle the use of a cheap multiprong adapter better but it still losses dynamics. I am hoping that the same does not hold true for the transport (we shall see). I know this is not convential wisdom, as transport usually benefit most from power cord upgrades, but in this case the meitnerized philips is only spinning hte disk and reading the digital data. The clock is in the DCC2. I am hoping that makes a difference. I will not be able to test this hypothesis for a few days...but wish me luck. Eventually when I move into a house I will correct this problem.
drhst20
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Kevziek, I agree with you completely that the power cord to the transport usually makes a huge difference (from my experience it usually makes more of a difference then any other piece, amp, dac, or pre-amp). However, for some reason the power cord to my philips seems to make alot less diffference then the power cords to my DCC2 and amp. As to why, who knows? I am going to run the DCC2 and amp directly to the wall using my Harmonix power cords. I am then going to use an extension cord (the highest guage I could find at Home Depot that would work in a standard outlet) to go to my Harmonix cable and then go to my transport. I am currently forced to run one of my componenets through either an extension cord or a multi prog adaptor. I have heard the negative effects of the multi prog adaptor on my amp and pre-amp. I am hoping that the extension cord (vs using the multi prog adaptor) will have less of an impact on my transport. We shall see. Anyone care to take a guess as to what will happen? (I should also mention that given that the DCC2 seems to be the most sensative to not using a direct to wall approach, the remaining options are A) Run the transport and amp into a mulit prog adaptor and run the DCC2 dreiclty into the wall or B) Run the amp and DCC2 directly into the wall and use an extension cord on the philips transport)
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