AC Power Cable suggestions please

[pctower]

Taking you, for example, you've been here for a while and know all the objectivist aguments, yet you still believe in cable sonics.

I have been very careful to distinguish what I believe from what I personally experience that gives me pleasure when I'm in my sound room.

I have stated in great detail what I believe and don't believe. Your characterization of my belief is not accurate.

[bturk667]

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[bturk667]

How many suggestion did you recieve?

[Beckman]

Short Answer:
Don't waste your money. The power cord you have works fine.

Long Answer:
Here is what happens when power leaves the outlet. It goes through the power cord. It goes through a full wave rectifier. Capacitors are used to smooth out the voltage into a relatively constant voltage. Zeners, and/or voltage regulators are used to supply a constant voltage that supplies all of the parts of the component biasing transistors, powering motors, IC's, etc.

The quality of the sound has nothing to do with the power cable and everthing to do with the power supply inside the component.

As far as power cords go all you really need is a cord the can handel the current drawn by the cd player (less than 1 amp).

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!
You should invest in a surge protector. As long as it can handle the power drawn by all the components plugged into it a cheap one will work fine. In fact I payed $10 for mine and it provides $10,000 worth of coverage against damage done due to a surge.

[mtrycraft]

In fact I payed $10 for mine and it provides $10,000 worth of coverage against damage done due to a surge.

You may want to check the fine print It applies after your own insurance leaves off I suppose if you don't have househod insurance, it applies.
Not sure if that surg protector coverage is based on full replacement value or depreciated ones. It should pay the deductable thoug.

[skeptic]

One minor point of clarification. If the surge protector is an MOV device, it is in parallel to the load and normally draws no current itself. When the volage exceeds 176 volts, the peak of a 120 volt sine wave, the MOV effectively goes into a breakdown mode becoming a shunt clipper. Damage to the MOV usually depends on the height of the applied waveform and its duration as well as the rating of the MOV. I once had a scam artist type salesman in my office who sold one of my internal clients (unknown to me) just such a device (it had a few extra bells and whistles) at an outrageous price ($9000) for industiral use. They advertised it as having "infinite" capacity. There are other types of surge protectors which can be placed in series with the load. One such type is the ferroresonant transformer such as those pioneered and manufactured by Sola. But these are of course much more expensive. Even at an industrial level, it's buyer beware.

[sofsoldier]

What is wrong with your current cable? If you need a new power cable because of some damage, just get a direct replacement.

Others will say after-market power cables are hype. I never tried one so I can speak one way or another, but I have a hard time imagining that an expensive power cable can make a difference since the AC power is converted to DC in the unit itself. Fluctuations in power is a known issue and I would hope the designers of the AC to DC converters would take this into concideration. AS a matter of fact, I believe that is the reason why components use DC!