It’d be perfect for multi channel discrete audio 
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Just imagine wiring that plug up!
Fun.
No one would buy that one. The cable isn’t thick enough!
Easily fixed with some outer insulation and some nice braided sleeve…
We could add some of the GEOMETRY STABILIZING SOLID HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE INSULATION from the Ethernet cable thread.
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For the non-audiophools and flat earth society, all amplifiers and speakers sound the same , are you not lucky? Hope you enjoy your ripcord power and speaker cables and $100 speakers, don’t spend more , you will be wasting your money. Shame , I would love to see the look on your faces when you discover the earth is not flat🤣 Oh and expectation bias is really working for you, expecting not to hear a difference
I really love this thread, it is so entertaining 
Anyone who doesn’t believe that power cables make a difference to sound quality should simply unplug them…
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Douglas, now you’ve descended into the use of petulant and insulting language. Who mentioned ripcord power and speaker cables and $100 speakers? No one here.
There are some very clever people around here who understand the science far better than you. Yet you choose to argue your position based on hand-waving pseudo-science and claims of magical effects on the structure of metals by passing low level electric current through them!
If there really was a burn-in phenomenon, it would be well documented by scientists and engineers and there would be research papers published by them - people who have developed superconductors, nano-particles, identified hitherto unknown subatomic particles etc. It isn’t though, it’s only espoused by hifi manufacturers who want to sell you expensive cables. Pause for a second and ask yourself:
“why is that?”
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Graeme, Read all the silly juvenile posts, preceding my post. I am showing what you guys sound like. This is tongue in cheek, don’t get sensitive now and run to the moderators. I know there are very clever people here, but calling individuals who have experienced actual differences fools is also insulting, so two sides to the story. We should have respect for opinions and keep an open mind. It’s impossible to have an intelligent discussion about cables, it always descends into stupid silly comments by a few
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I don’t think the issue is what commenters on this thread sound like. It’s what do power cables “sound like”?
If a 1m “audiophile” power cable can make an audible improvement in the sound quality, how about 0.5m? 1cm? 1mm?
Laying aside all the rest of the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo, what’s the optimal length of “audiophile” power cable to improve the SQ? Is longer better? If so, how long? Is shorter better? If so, how short?
Douglas, a lot of the “silliness” was brought on by the Fog Lifter kit TBF. Between Jitterbugs and Fog Lifters I’d say Audioquest are deserving of all the mockery they got and more. Do you really believe those devices are the work of honest people, or money grabbing opportunists?
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Jacques, ignoring Mike’s dripping sarcasm, I am so in awe of his intelligence; I don’t think you need to worry about optimum lengths, however, Furutech, for example claims 1.8 meters are optimum.
Killdozer, there’s definitely serious money grabbing and its very sad, so yes we should not be gullible and pay ridiculous prices, even if you have budget, we should just keep it sensible. Regards.
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Why is 1.8m optimal?
Your hifi is almost certainly plugged into a 15A circuit (I’m using US electrical codes here; adjust as appropriate for other countries). That means 10-20m of 14AWG solid core copper cable
from your breaker panel to the outlet into which your “audiophile” power cord is plugged.
Can you explain why 1.8m of “audiophile” power cable, tacked onto the end of a 20m run of “ripcord” (to use your derogatory term) is “optimal”? Why not shorter? Or longer?
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Exactly. As if an extra meter of “premium” cable were going to magically fix the hundreds of meters of “crappy” or old cables from the grid or in the house…
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I disagree completely. We should have respect for a person’s right to hold an opinion. We should also have a respect for the individual who holds that opinion. But that is not the same as respecting the opinion itself.
I cannot, in any way, shape or form, respect a opinion that power cables make a difference to SQ in the ways that you have described.
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It’s unbelievable how easily we are fooled.
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