Richard Gray’s Power Company™ introduces an 8-gauge power cord termed RGPC HighTensionWire™. This patent pending design allows more of the AC signal to pass-through, unrestricted than the high-end esoteric power cords RGPC has objectively evaluated using our revealing CRT testing procedures. HighTensionWire is designed to power all components.

When we first introduced Richard Gray's Power Company's patented technology we became increasingly aware of the harmful effects from noise filtering and frequency tailoring of many power cords, especially when used in conjunction with the RGPC units. These “esoteric” power cords tended to "over-damp" the signal, causing high frequency roll-offs, a dulling of the sound and visual aberrations on video displays.

Many high-end cables are wrapped with pretty outer sleeves of various materials and webbing, such as heat-shrink tubing or rubber wrapped tightly around the core wire. We have discovered that this can dramatically affect the performance of the wire, degrading the signal being transmitted. This condition, coupled with typically poor terminations, yields wire performance that deteriorates even further over time.

By contrast, our HighTensionWire™ is terminated by hand, assuring the best connections with the least signal loss, and uses a loose sleeve composed of a material that in no way affects performance.

In testing/developing RGPC HighTensionWire™ it became increasingly obvious that in regards to audio, everyone hears differently. Were this not the case there would probably exist only one type of amplifier, speaker etc. In the case of video, people tend to agree more on a clear, well-defined picture. There may be slight differences in adjustments made to tint, color, brightness, etc., but even that will soon change with the incorporation of HDTV and the RGB input standard.

Recommended Evaluation Procedures:

The natural tendency is to evaluate power cords by plugging them into source components such as CD/DVD or preamp/processor because these are considered the most power sensitive equipment within an audio/video system. Whereas this is usually true with many esoteric power cords, we have found that this same approach with the RGPC HighTensionWire ™ is flawed.

Contradicting this methodology, we recommend first plugging HighTensionWire™ power cords into your amps, subwoofers and receivers to hear power delivery never before experienced. Once you’ve done this, go upstream by installing a HighTensionWire ™ on your preamp/processor to reinforce and confirm what you have already experienced, and then go further upstream in the power chain to include the DVD/CD players. On video you will find that projectors and plasmas that offer a replaceable power cord will benefit greatly by the increase power delivery of the HighTensionWire™

The 15-amp IEC Connector standard removable power cord is designed to fit the RGPC 400 units as well as most electronic equipment. The 20-amp IEC Connector and removable power is design to fit the RGPC 600S, RGPC 1200S and RGPC Pole Pig units. It also fits a handful of power amplifiers from high-end manufacturers, such as those from Audio Research Corporation.