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New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound?
@eurorack of course if you change from a substandard, “crud” power cord to something that’s half decent you should notice a difference. That’s obvious. Crap is gonna limit anything in this world - power cords or not. What we discussing in this th... 
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound?
@mihorn Your comment “In my experience, a last 5ft power cord is much more important than in-wall wiring. Like a garden water hose, the nozzle only sees what it’s connected. The audio equipment draws the current from a power cord which is a bigger... 
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound?
@invalid The electrons don’t care if you or I call the power cord the last or first five feet in a circuit that also involves 10 to 40 more feet of in-wall wiring.   
New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound?
I assume you didn’t spend several thousands of dollars on a 5 feet power cord without installing a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 10 gauge wires from your panel? Otherwise, what difference will the last 5 feet make?  
Going Tubing
Thanks again for all the advice and recommendations. This truly is a very engaged and knowledgeable audiophile community! So, I ended up heeding this thread’s frequent advice to start off with a tube pre-amp and found a used PrimaLuna DiaLogue Pr... 
Going Tubing
They are GoldenEar One.Rs  
Going Tubing
Thanks again for all insights.   The Schiit Freya + certainly sounds interesting, and has been recommended by at least a couple of people in this thread. What is this knowledgeable group’s opinion of the PrimaLuna Dialogue Premiere and the Prim... 
Going Tubing
Many thanks to the many answers and insights shared. There’s a lot to distill and there are of course one hundred and one different directions one can go, based on integrated vs. separates, what matches/is able to drive my GE One.R:s and, not leas... 
Going Tubing
Thanks for these responses! My speakers are GoldenEar One.R:s. Sensitivity is pretty solid at 92 dB, and they have built-in subs so I would assume a need to push a great deal of power to them wouldn’t be necessary. Thus a - typically - lower powe... 
Should Amps be plugged into a power conditioner?
When I purchased Emotiva’s differential pre-amp (XDA-3) and their power amp (XPA-Dr3, ~ 500w/ch) together with their own power conditioner, their recommendation was to NOT plug the power amp into the conditioner but straight into the wall outlet.