Jbucla2005
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whats a good cheap audiophile grade power cord to try? Thanks.
I second the Ironlung Jellyfish. Looks like it's gotten cheaper? I thought I last paid more than $30 but it's listed for $29 now.
I'd recommend the SoniKLEER II over the IronLung Jellyfish. The jellyfish is good, but the SoniKLEER is much better.
I just pick up old UL-certified power cords at the TRW swapmeet. They work fine.
Don't fall for the associated equipment trap. That's where you start telling yourself that if you spend X amount on one thing that something not very expensive is somehow "inadequate.". Where does that end? You will drive yourself crazy if you have to upgrade, upgrade and upgrade every associated object to be "good enough."
My cousin is a chef and has some pretty nice liquors around. I've had $200/bottle bourbons out of disposable plastic cups as well as cut crystal. It's damned good no matter the cup. My only hangup is that I don't like to put more plastic in the landfill, so I'd go for thrift store glasses. Which, by the way, is what's in my cabinets. Goodwill, Salvation Army and a set that belonged to my grandparents.
As for power cords "working," here's a thought exercise for you. Suppose you had a very pricey power cord that is reputed to "clean" the power. Now plug that cable in and deliberately put noise on the line. You could measure the noise going in and coming out.
How would you feel if your pricey power cord showed an equal amount of noise coming out the other end? Granted, there might be something completely misunderstood by science to the cable... but it would still have a quantifiable amount of noise passing through.
By the way, there are devices that actually remove noise from the line, and demonstrably so. I keep an isolation transformer on my amp.