Power Cord For Audio Research gear

No money - How do your phono cables sound when you point the arrows in the wrong direction? Try it out.

Steve, I don't have phono section, sorry. I can't reverse the balanced set of Transparent. In the not so distant past I accidently hooked up a set backwards ( network at source ) and it didn't sound right. Listened for an hour before finding what the heck was going on. I thought it was just cable that needed to be broken in until I investigated. Maybe it was because of the whole network thing that it was so obvious? Haven't tried it on non-networked cables. Steve, I think it might benefit you to at least list what components you like? own? feel do make a difference? It is hard to make a point if no one knows what your preferences are when it comes to audio.

No money:

You should work for the State Department, so diplomatic.
Obviously, stevemj has an "axe to grind" and is not interested in any opinion but his own. It is to his detrement that he is so closed minded about an issue that can be easily resolved by simply listening to diferent cables in his system. Does he have a stereo system?

I can't resist -- this debate is so out of control... At one point in my life when I thought B&W speakers were awesome, I also could not hear the difference in power cords. (I am not saying that B&W are not fine speakers -- I have found that there are others that are much more suited to my listening tastes) Now that things have advanced significantly in my stereo, power cords do make a significant difference, some more than others, and the cord / equipment match is extremely important. I have a friend that is a professional sound engineer that brought his spectrum analysis equipment to my home, and this equipment could detect signal rise and fall timing and 1 db peak level differences when the amp was equipped with a very high end power cord. Is the cord worth 3K??? Are some exotic cars worth $300,000K -- its only paint, metal and leather... Let your wallet, ears and seat of your pants decide... I know which cord is in my system...

Gmorris, Thanks, I try to look at things from both sides if possible. But sometimes will still snap off a reply that I might shouldn't have in the moment of anger. I think it would help to know what he is listening on. If I had been here back in my Yamaha reciever/ cd player days preaching that cables didn't matter.... well then you would know why. Not that it was a bad system, just mid-fi though and tweaks or cableing didn't matter so much on it.