AC Outlets

Peter,

I applaud you. This is the stuff. These guys that talk and have giant opinions but have never tried it get on my nerves.

You have a massive task to prepare though. You will need to 'burn in' each outlet for at least a few hundred hours before conducting any meaningful test.

Don't forget some Oyaide sockets too if you can.

Hi Peter,

another relatively cheap, but said to be good sounding outlet is the maestro. It is used in an extremely expensive range of mains conditioner called Tripoint.

I think it is very important to try the outlets that are said to sound great.

The cheap non audiophile ones will most likely be much the same as each other. In my experience sounding metallic, shut in, and nasty in the treble for whatever reason when compared to good audiophile outlets.

Surely the point is to show why an audiophile would/should bother changing outlets? If some effort to audition "good" sounding ones is not put in we may miss the most important point. That point is to refine the various links in the chain to allow a hiend system to function at its best.

Personally I feel you need to have driven a great car to know why you would aspire to one.

Prepare yourself for an interesting time.

Do allow time to burn in the outlets. Some are said to sound quite bad initially.