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In Reply to: RE: What gauge power cord for 48 watt digital audio device? posted by Ivan303 on January 28, 2016 at 10:10:46
While large gauge power cords are most often recommended for high current applications, from an audiophile perspective, low current applications also benefit from large gauge power cords, no matter how minuscule the current draw may be. This is to say, even a digital application with low current demand often sounds substantially better when a large gauge power cord is selected vs. a smaller gauge design. So you'll need to ask yourself what matters when choosing a power cord for a low current digital application. From a safety POV, a typical stock 18 AWG power cord will safely deliver AC, but from a sonic POV, a well-designed large gauge audiophile quality power cord often provides substantially higher performance, even for a low current application.
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Couldn't agree more. Bigger is better. Follow Dusters advice. T
Trying to find out what the point of diminishing returns might be for a 48W digital device where we know a 15 gauge power cord would work fineb and be more than adequate for the load.
But would a 13 gauge or even 12 gauge be expected to work better?
What I mean is a typical 18 AWG power cord is sufficient from a safety perspective. The issue to address is not what's adequate for the load, it's a matter of audiophile performance rather than seeking a power cord based on the current draw of a source component.
I use a 10 AWG Acrolink 7N-P4030 II power cord terminated with Furutech FI-50 Gold AC connectors placed on my low current DAC, and find the presentation to sound substantially better than a 14 AWG Acrolink 7N-P4020III in comparison, which was a good opportunity to compare the gestalt of two power cords of identical design other than the gauge of the conductors. That said, for system tuning purposes and budget restraints, there are a number of 14 AWG power cords that perform very well, but often present a smaller scale soundstage presentation than that of a 10 AWG power cord, or even a 12 AWG power cord which is not even twice the cross section of a 14 AWG power cord.
In fact, early findings of folks in Cable Asylum indicate very large gauge power cords can often sound very good for low current digital transports, such as increased image density and bass weight with slam as a result, IME.
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