Detachable power cord?

[highfigh]

The final cost for assembling a receiver with a power cord is higher than one without. One reason it's detached is that it's easy to automate the line that packs the box and if a robotic line inserts on in each box, there's no reason to worry about someone taking a break and having a series of boxes with no power cord, so no labor cost is associated with it and the line can run all day, every day.

As far as the cord being adequate, a lot of times, 'just' needs to go before 'adequate'.

 

[highfigh]

arent they saying that the noise coming from the power cable creates the noise on the interconnects?

i might be wrong on that but thats what I thought they were getting at..

and yes I like a nice budget cool looking power cord. i have a pretty purple shunyata for my krell I bought it used for 40 bucks..

Have you ever seen the recommendation that power cords and cabling that carries signal shouldn't be run parallel to each other and that if they need to cross, they should be at a right angle? Distance and avoiding parallel runs minimizes noise pickup (EMI/EMR) through induction. As long as this is followed and the shielding is capable of rejecting any RF/EMI that's present, a power cord will cause very few problems with the signal. The AC only goes a few inches into the device before it's turned to DC and because of proximity, I would bet that the power transformer has more effect on the signal than the power cord.

 

[walter duque]

IMO detachable is the way to go. On one of my Cinepro amps (attached power cord) when I moved it I did damage the amp. The attached powercord was the size of a small waterhose and the collar must have slipped and shortend out.