Power cords for Headphone amps

[Peter 57]

Just would like to know if anyone is using after market audiophile power cords for their headphone amps
The question also is wire gauge. If your house wiring is 14 gauge, does it make any sense using larger gauge cords such as 12 or 10 gauge feeding your equipment. Thanks for any feedback.

 

[ririeiman]

Dont bother with audiphile mambo jumbo . Just use safe and nice quality power cord

 

[phase]

An isolation transformer, and a line conditioner, but good old regular power cord...

 

[Peter 57]

It's interesting that whenever you buy a new headphone amp; they always give you a standard 18 gauge power cord. So, I'm assuming 18 gauge is sufficient enough to do the job.

 

[phase]

Unless your headphone amp is consuming more than 10 amps, then it should be fine...

 

[Peter 57]

An isolation transformer, and a line conditioner, but good old regular power cord...

Can you recommend a good isolation transformer?

 

[phase]

Sorry, the one I’m using is quite old, so not really available.

 

[OllBoll]

Just use any robust power cord.

You only need an isolation transformer if you have a problem with audible hum on the output, but in that case then the problem is most likely not the power connection but rather that your grounding can be improved like using the same power strip to power the whole setup.