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Originally Posted by Sean240  total crap.
Gold is supposedly justifiable where you want a connection that wont oxidize like copper will. Lots of elements/metals conduct electricity better than copper, but copper is the best compromise for cost/conductivity/strength/availability/malleability.
If a standard IEC cable cost $2 and lasted only one year before exhibiting some corrosion, and your $300 cable lasted your lifetime, wouldn't you still be better off tossing dodgy corroded IEC cables out and replacing them? (Unless you have another 151 years to live I guess)
As for hearing any difference... c'mon. Your electric utility company is hard pressed to keep their transmission voltage within 10% during any 24 hour day. As people move around a city (changing regional loads), turn on and off lights (time of day), electric heaters (seasonal) etc. etc. the phase reactance of those loads drastically changes the phase of the supply (inductive and capacitive reactance - i.e. the flow of current lags voltage or leads it). Transmission interruptions, brownouts, squirrels and wildlife shorting lines, rain fade... In summary - what comes out the wall is NOT stable in the first place. Unless you have a couple million $ and a big room to stage a bank of batteries and a Uninterruptable Power Supply with good regulation system - and a cooling plant to keep it operating.
In your audio equipment, the 110 ~ 220v ac supply is rectified back to dc anyway. Consumer and professional amps, pre's, effects, your computers - all run internally on dc. The internal ac/dc power supply is designed to tolerate variations in supply voltage (but is not so good at handling poor current regulation).
So, if your existing IEC power cord already has corrosion, broken, partially broken conductors, or any other form of high-resistance joint - you may be challenging your device's power supply to keep the 9/15/48v rails stable IF the fault is sufficient to impede current flow. You wouldn't be able to miss this - the sparks or the fire should obviate itself pretty quick... A new $2 cord will fix this nicely and you can take the other $298 and party. |
Thanks to Ethan and Sean and everyone else who put the issue into perspective for me. Yeah, I was almost roped in by slick marketing... They were even giving me BS like since Japan only has 100V power, lowest voltage in the world, that it is the worst power supply to record audio with. WTF, ne? (On the other hand electricity is very stable. Never had a black/brown out my whole time living here.)
So it looks like I'll settle for a Tascam/TEAC power distributor, simply for the convenience of having everything on one cable.