I need to upgrade power cords for my height channels which are active speakers. The cables need to be around 3 meters long, better than average quality and relatively easy to manage since they need to run up toward the ceiling and I don't want garden hoses snaking around my listening room. Since these are surrounds I don't want to break the bank I would like to come in at around $100 or so each. I am open to suggestions and am considering Pangea. Thanks
IME, power cables can only provide a small percentage of sonic benefits compared to superior line conditioning. But if one is focused on power cables alone, $100 could easily get you an excellent bang for the buck.
I've a $100 custom PC I keep on hand that includes Furutech terminators (cryo-treated) and custom stranded copper wire (cryo treated). This cable outperformed my $2400 power cable (which I sold) and was about even up with a $6000 Stage III power cable a distributor asked me to use when exhibiting at an audio show. I didn't have the heart to tell the distributor at the time that his $6k PC was not superior to my $100 custom PC.
You might try Take 5 Audio. They seem to cryo most everything they sell (like Furutech who supposedly cryo's everything they sell). I've purchased two 12ft. cryo'ed power cables from Take 5 for about $120 each several years ago. I installed Furutech terminators at either end and burned them in using home appliances but never had need for them in my system so never "listened" to them.
The cryo'ing process is really the secret sauce here. I would never bother with any cable that is not cryo'ed. At the very least that process is the great equalizer for perhaps any type of cable. If superior materials, craftsmanship, and cryo'ing methodology are employed, such a cable should easily edge out perhaps any cable that has not been cryo'ed.
BTW, With the right materials and connections in a PC you should easily hear distinct audible performance gains over stock PC's. But bear in mind that a PC generally takes roughly 5 days of continuous use before its fully burned in. A 10ft PC will probably take several more days. Until full burn-in, it may even sound worse than the PC's being replaced.
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