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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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jea48
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Kevziek, I can only speak of the AudioQuest power cord.

From AudioQuest,

"AC Power Cables"
"The power cable going from the wall to an amp, preamp or other component is subject to many of the same distortion mechanisms as speaker cable. The wiring inside the wall avoids most of the problems by being very stiff and never using stranded conductors"

"By using Hyperlitz design. AudioQuest power cables provide flexibility while eliminating the strand modulation problems common to most power cables."

"AudioQuest AC-12 is a 12 awg X 3 cable using four separate solid 18 awg OFHC conductors for hot, four for neutral and a 12 awg stranded conductor for earth. The cable is flexible but has no strand modulation problems."

AQ shows a picture in the brochure each of the solid 18 awg OFHC conductors are insulated.

Jim
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