Why does an audiophile grade power cord matter?

"audiophile grade" = anything other than the cable that came with your Dell tower and costs more than 10 bucks, has really cool looking sheathing and nice shiny big connectors at each end, must have a really catchy name that plays on the fluid dynamics and wave theory.

:)

Elizabeth, What is the price range of your Pangea power cords?

Do a search for some pretty exhaustive discussions on power cords. There was a nice one not more than a couple of months ago. Long story short: they do make a difference but you don't have to spend a lot to get an improvement over the stock power cord that comes with whatever it is you buy.

If you can't hear a difference, you're either deficient in hearing acuity or your system isn't revealing enough or you don't feel it's worth it and refuse to come clean even though you do hear a difference (which seems to be the underlying reason).

:-)

All the best,
Nonoise

Pangea powercords can only be purchased from Audio Advisor.
The original price (4 years ago? was around $59 for a two meter Pangea (AC) So I bought one. Stuck it on my Forte' 4a amp nad became a believer.

Anyway. right off I have to say skip buying the Pangea AC14, ony go for the Pangea AC14SE for the 14 gauge.
The amp cords, the AC9 both the AC9 and AC9SE are pretty good.
The AC9 and AC9SE should be at LEAST 2 meters long. The cord just does NOT twist around it's axis well in shorter lengths.
Anyway the Pangea AC9 starts at 2 meter for $100

The AC14SE starts at $45 for a half meter to $120 for a 5 meter.

the AC9Se is more and for two meters starts at $200

I sold any AC14 I had.
I own 4 two meter AC9
And 3 four meter AC9
A three meter AC9
2 four meter AC9SE
2 two meter AC9SE
And a few AC9SE

I'm thinking about trying one on my Audio Research CD player. Which one would you recommend?