What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound?


I have bought six or seven different power cords, none over $500 and have noticed little or no change in the sound of my system. All the cables are 12 gauge or bigger.  Without talking about cables made with unobtainium, where did you start hear a difference.
 

Thanks.

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You don’t mention what you have for equipment.

I recently did the same and borrowed 5 different power cables in the $300 range. 

on my mid-level high end system I heard differences for each cable.

the winner then was Pangea 14XL with Cardas copper.

recently someone Facebook turned me on to Ataudio power cables from aliexpress  

here a $60 cable bettered the Pangea 14XL .

 

so dunno what you have for an audio system or what type of music you listen to  

but if you hear no differences than you will at least save $$.

 

@riccitone 
Like you I have a Furman now containing only FM tuner and tape deck. Believe I will move streamer and DAC from AudioQuest conditioner back over to Furman and see whether I get similar results. Thanks for the tip! 

Didn't pay much attention to power cords until I tried the AQ Storm Series.  That was a game changer for me.  

My first power cable purchase was a Shunyata Venom HC.  I didn’t hear much of a difference until I improved my system to be much more revealing.  Now I clearly hear the difference between the following cables I demoed; Shunyata, Audioquest and Cardas power cables.