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Sloppy Power Cord Female IEC Connection
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RG - I haven't tried the Furutech IEC Inlets, but, they might be what you're looking for:

http://www.vhaudio.com/connectors-ac.html

Maybe Jonathan Scull can tell us more about them. These appear to be touted as having the "grip of death" you seek. I'm not 100% happy with the grip of some of my IEC jacks. This might be worth investigating.

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Doesn't seem like good design work does it...? Hang an oversized over weighted piece of wire off an IEC origiannly designed for an 18Ga 16Ga flexible small mortal cord, thus the aftermarket AC cord nonsense is really not well thought out is it, but as you keep trying to find teh one. You see, that is why NEMA has wiring devices suited for it's application, thus twist locks for heavy cords in places where the power cord cannot be removed accidentally, or in teh case of straight blade 15/20A devices hospital grade have a slightly stronger spring tension, but not to teh extent where it cannot be in advertently removed, but far less able than standrad grade. Hospital is also about abuse from cleaning chemicals, thus most faces are nylon, etc to stand up to cleaning routines and physical abuse, not audioitory nonsense. Get some twist locks L5 I beleive NEMA for 15A build a female twist lock into your Cd player, the ultimate power cord tweak, give it a fancy weird name liek some alligator or snake pit, price it in the stratoshere, write a "white paper" on all teh design and engineering you can be a cable maven....like all those who sold before you....Kimber, Carda, Ps Audio, Shunyata data do ya, Sunny Cable, look out there's a new hype in town. After using that oversized AC line cord, look at teh internals of your unit, what kind of wire is coming off the fuse and switch? Looks like hookup wire, for mortals?

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