Silly Question: Short Power Cord + Ext. Cord?

---Jea48, after I reflected on this again, why should the stranded cable in an extension cord make a difference when most power cords use stranded cable anyway? Hence, a change from the solid core wire in the wall is going to happen anyway.

---Redkiwi, your experience obviously speaks for itself. There is more going on with AC power than meets the eye.

---Drhst20, from my own experience, the cord on the transport makes a huge difference. I think your use of a cheap multi-prong adaptor will definitely affect sonics and unimpeded flow of AC.

Interestingly, one can use a power conditioner and connect multiple units to it; yet, the conditioner is tapping off only one side of an outlet. One would think that plugging each unit into a separate outlet would give maximum flow of AC, as opposed to 'bottlenecking' effect a power conditioner would theoretically create.

Kevziek, I agree with you completely that the power cord to the transport usually makes a huge difference (from my experience it usually makes more of a difference then any other piece, amp, dac, or pre-amp). However, for some reason the power cord to my philips seems to make alot less diffference then the power cords to my DCC2 and amp. As to why, who knows? I am going to run the DCC2 and amp directly to the wall using my Harmonix power cords. I am then going to use an extension cord (the highest guage I could find at Home Depot that would work in a standard outlet) to go to my Harmonix cable and then go to my transport. I am currently forced to run one of my componenets through either an extension cord or a multi prog adaptor. I have heard the negative effects of the multi prog adaptor on my amp and pre-amp. I am hoping that the extension cord (vs using the multi prog adaptor) will have less of an impact on my transport. We shall see. Anyone care to take a guess as to what will happen? (I should also mention that given that the DCC2 seems to be the most sensative to not using a direct to wall approach, the remaining options are A) Run the transport and amp into a mulit prog adaptor and run the DCC2 dreiclty into the wall or B) Run the amp and DCC2 directly into the wall and use an extension cord on the philips transport)

Kevziek, I can only speak of the AudioQuest power cord.

From AudioQuest,

"AC Power Cables"
"The power cable going from the wall to an amp, preamp or other component is subject to many of the same distortion mechanisms as speaker cable. The wiring inside the wall avoids most of the problems by being very stiff and never using stranded conductors"

"By using Hyperlitz design. AudioQuest power cables provide flexibility while eliminating the strand modulation problems common to most power cables."

"AudioQuest AC-12 is a 12 awg X 3 cable using four separate solid 18 awg OFHC conductors for hot, four for neutral and a 12 awg stranded conductor for earth. The cable is flexible but has no strand modulation problems."

AQ shows a picture in the brochure each of the solid 18 awg OFHC conductors are insulated.

Jim

Kevziec, if I understand your point then I agree with you that stranded versus solid conductor is not an issue with power cords. I believe that strand-jumping is an issue with speakers wire and interconnects, but not with AC power cords.