One Cord To Rule Them All

@cleeds 

The only way to ascertain expertise on Agon is to judge a user’s posting history.

Mostly true but another way to help understand a poster's perspective is to take a look at their virtual system.  For example, I use inefficient speakers and big power amps so I am certainly not the person to listen to regarding high efficiency speakers and single-ended triode amplifiers, other than I have said I wish I had started out with more efficient speakers.  It is both interesting and informative to look at the virtual systems here, and fun too.  While I have no problem with people who do not post their virtual systems, when they do that information sometimes helps me understand where they are coming from.

Right. It does help to understand where people are coming from. It also helps to try and understand what the heck they are saying. Lost wrote a long one, that someone thinks is good, in spite of the fact the whole thing has already been answered. The conclusion:

I still don’t see how an expensive power cable is going to make any difference to what comes out of a well-designed, high end power regenerator like the PS Audio.

Was answered back on page one of this thread:

Because nothing ever is perfect. Obviously. So no matter how good a conditioner, regenerator, or power supply, until and unless it is perfect then it will always matter what is done upstream.

The power cord coming into the regenerator will matter for the simple reason the regenerator converts the AC to DC and back to AC in real time. As long as it works this way then there will always be some ripple or artifact from the original power source. The only way to avoid this is to use AC to charge a battery, disconnect the battery from AC, and run the system off battery power.

Anything else, any scheme whatsoever that relies on the unit remaining connected to AC will always inevitably pass some amount of that AC variance on to its output.

I won’t spell it out because it does no good. People either understand plain English or they do not. This happens because no power supply regenerator or otherwise is perfect.

@millercarbon
Following your logic, perhaps the OP should buy another regenerator to deliver power to his other regenerator.  Heck, maybe shove a third one in there, just to be safe.

@thyname
Dude, if you have access to a cable lending library, experiment away!!  I wish I could do that.  As Don von Recklinghausen once said, "If it measures bad and sounds good, it's good.  If it measures good and sounds bad, you're measuring the wrong thing."

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