Audio-GD power Cord replacement

Monsters don't let friends buy Monster, seriously. 

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10228&cs_id=1022801

Audio-gd power cords are fine for the USA.  Kingwa has found a supplier of correctly wired stock power cords to ship to customers in the USA and other countries that use the same wiring scheme. As well, over a year ago he rectified any errors when his hand-made power cords were constructed, so you can change the title of this thread. 

The 14 awg monoprice are pretty decent. If you want better cables... it's probably easiest to make it yourself, or fix your audio-gd power cables. What is wrong with them btw? Heavy gauge power cable plugs do not use solder, they use screws and clamps, making it easy to fix or make. The commercial and industrial plugs are not cheap, and sonar plugs (on ebay) are about the same price and also good quality with many different conductor materials to choose from. Stay away from the ebay Oyaides though, I read a few people say some are really bad quality fakes.

If you don't use a contact cleaner, I'd suggest getting plugs with corrosion-resistant plating. Pure copper can go green fast :p. Red deoxit+ deoxit gold or deoxit shield, are great contact cleaners and keep my copper plugs clean.

 Try a DIY with Yarbo GY-9000PW and Gold plugs, I think you wouldn't believe the differences it can bring.

I didn't take care of my power system, but I've studied the subject and well some cables are for crazy money, but some people believe that changing power cords will give you more benefit than interconnects or speaker cables. Best solution is going DIY route and many people recommended http://www.vhaudio.com/. You probably have there all you need, here you have DIY recipes on how to make your cables (http://www.venhaus1.com/diymains.html). Apparently a lot depends on the connectors, but better ones are kinda expensive, I wouldn't go there personally, just stick with the cheapest WattGates or Marinco stuff. If you have a large cord that doesn't fit WattGates then you can buy Sonar plugs on eBay. If you don't wanna go this route just buy some Belden cables, they are very similar priced for what VHAudio offers, but they have already ground wire, you don't need heatshrink tubes etc. Just put on it some nylon and you are good to go, cheaper connectors are Schurter 4782.0100 and Marinco stuff.

Just for completeness sake, if you think connectors are important, then the power receptacle is also a connector with very varying types of contact sizes and pressure. A very popular outlet used by audiophiles is the hubbell 8200 or 8300 hospital grade, both identical in construction except 8300 can also accept 20a plugs.  On ebay it can be had for ~$13 shipped if you hunt around, or $6-10 if you buy several of them. I recently got ten 8300 for $75. Don't get the leviton 8300, I got one because I didn't believe when people said it sounded bad, but it does sound bad. People speculate it's because they put some kind of grease to prevent arcing.

BUT look up what your local law requires to change an outlet, and make sure you thoroughly know what has to be done to change it or you can kill yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuevakEtGvM

I heard that these receptacles aren't that good and are waste of money, but I dunno. One guy I know of recommended to buy some cheap, well-made power strip, if it has any filters inside or something just take all out of it, he also soldered capacitor there, but I don't know why and he bought filter Schaffner FN2080-10-06 and connected it with the power strip. He told me to top that he would have to spend hundreds or thousands of $. I kinda took it with a grain of salt because this filter costs in USA 30-40$! But I know that this guy used to have these power conditioners from Gigawatt and Furutech, so I asked him: "You want to tell me that some crappy power strip and filter for 40$ beat something what costs 20x more". He said to me that it didn't but the difference wasn't night and day. He also used cables from Chris VenHaus at VHAudio claiming that it is best bang for the buck.

He wasn't really into headphones, but speakers guy, but one thing is funny that he had all this power related stuff, DIY speakers made by himself etc. and technically whole cable stuff came from BlueJeansCable. He didn't believe in this cable ******** and would rather improve things with power and acoustics.  

What do you mean by "this cable ********"? If he buys vhaudio and BJC cables, I find your statement to be a little confusing.

I wanted to say voodoo, wrote "bulls*it". What this guy meant was that he didn't really felt that spending hundreds on speaker cables or interconnects made that much difference to him, he believed that interconnects should have good shielding and something else I forgot, but my point is that he would rather buy something from BJC which has excellent ratio price/performance and spend most of his money in improving power related stuff and acoustics. BJC was enough for him, he didn't need something better because he didn't feel like it. He told me that he often failed in blind tests with much better cables so at the end he didn't care and just stuck with the BJC. I believe his speaker cables were also BJC or Anticables, don't remember. He thought that the marketing for Anticables was genius so bought it and then compared it with another cable used for toroidal transformers. Random cable screwed up the sound and he probably stuck with Anticables, I think...

By better I meant "more expensive", my bad.