Speaker Cables

[Borgen]

I've been told that DACs and pre-amps are generally more sensitive to power-issues than power amps. Which leads me to wonder if a power conditioner or power cord could help isolate noise from the power-amp from reaching e.g. the DAC. For Devialet with SMPS which typically are noisy, I would expect Devialet engineers to have done a good job isolating the internals from noise, but perhaps not paid too much attention from stopping it from leaking out?

I've not tried Devialet with power conditioner (I sold mine before buying the DP), but before that I ended up buying a power conditioner as I found myself enjoying music much more late evening/ night when all the washing machines had stopped and the noise level on the grid had improved.

A small story on speaker cables, for your experiment if you like. I once had a mid-priced speaker cable that was a bit too long and lying around on the floor. Hence, I coiled it up behind the speaker to tidy the room (just a few turns). A few hours later a friend came by and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked what I had done to the sound, he claimed it sounded much thinner (i.e. a true blind-test).