Anyone who wants to see if customizing a wall socket makes a difference or not, keep your current wall outlet, but stick some strips of fo.Q TA-102 (from Japan via eBay) tape on it. Cover it as much as desired. Total cost about $10 worth of the piezoelectric tape, for your jaw on the floor.
Any one try the new Synergistic Research BLUE UEF Duplex receptacle?
Looking for comparsons to other high quality outlets.
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Anyone who wants to see if customizing a wall socket makes a difference or not, keep your current wall outlet, but stick some strips of fo.Q TA-102 (from Japan via eBay) tape on it. Cover it as much as desired. Total cost about $10 worth of the piezoelectric tape, for your jaw on the floor.$32 on ebay. $95 at cableco. Sounds about right. |
Use of small strips of fo.Q material is highly recommended. As the top plates of US spec receptacles are usually held by only one screw the edges will unavoidably resonate. Adding strips of fo.Q across the edges of the top plate to the wall or outlet frame will damp this resonance. Be careful not to overdamp however as this can deaden the sound. This phenomena may also be why slightly loosening the top plate screw can sound better the having it fully tightened |
Hello there fellas, I have a question for you. I listen to 70 percent Metal-punk-Classic rock and 30 perecent what i'll just call audiophile recordingds for the sake of time. The 70 percent obviosly wins out for me. Would the latest red,black or new blue be the best outlet for what I like to call Metallically tinged noize. A huge thank you in advance to anyone who can offer me any insight |
There is a recent thread in Tech Talk where I list the best uses I have found for fo.Q TA-32 (thin tape) and TA-102 (thick tape). Generally the thin tape works best on cables and connectors, thick tape on components and chassis. I’m generally more on the side of "more is more" when it comes to fo.Q. But it boils down to personal taste and your sensitivity to coloration produced by low amplitude vibration. You have to realise what is happening with fo.Q. It is reducing the amplitude of already very low amplitude mechanical vibrations. As the amplitude decreases, the effectiveness increases. It’s not a conventional damping material like rubber or Sorbothane. It will effectively reduce the amplitude of vibrations that have such low amplitude that you may not realise they exist. Until they are gone. |
I currently have a Shunyata SR-Z1 outlet that I am looking to upgrade. I am looking at two options: 1- cruzeFIRST Maestro or 2- synergistic blue. The maestro is qualified as neutral, clean and natural. These are qualities I am looking for to match my Yamaha and Bryston gear. The problem with the Blue, there is not much that have been written on it yet. No professional reviews that I am aware of. In this situation it is difficult to know how it would pair with my gear. I know we always have to try but that would be nice to know some attributes when compared to other outlets. And, there is a 200$ between both. Is the Blue that great to justify the 200$ Increase? Did anyone compare these two outlets? |
parabellum: I have the Synergistic Research Blue outlets in my three systems. They really are worth the price. Buy one and try it for 10 days. By then it will be fully broken in. Send it back if you do not think it is worth the cost. They give you 30 days to decide. The Blue outlets are superior to the Oyaide and Furutech outlets I have bought. David Pritchard |
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What is that? Like 500 words of pointlessness? The point of the Orange is the sound. What is wrong with audiophiles? How about, instead of reading NEC try reading whostolethebatmobile? That’s what I did, and just ordered some f0.Q thick and thin for my turntable, speakers, and other stuff. Which I will be applying with such utter disregard for NEC you can’t even begin to imagine. |
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jea, Respectfully, I think you miss the point. I speak for myself but I don't care much about the why, why, why.. Thing is, I f***** don't know how they achieve a better/different/worse sound with different outlet. All I care, as an audiophile, is does it sound better to my ears? Does it synergize well with the rest of my system? One has to step outside own's pre-conceived ideas. You seem to think too much like an electrician; plug one of those and listen for yourself. Then come back report. It's not because I do not understand the science behind the product that I cannot appreciate its merits. I cannot explain why a cleaner power signal feeding my gear ends up with my gear to sound better. Why is this, I don't know and cannot find an actual answer. But I do appreciate the improved sound though. |
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After about 1 year or so of using the blue duplex I switched to the orange. .man what a big improvement. .low end has way more heft and tonality is much more lifelike and accurate. .everything seems to be more focused with larger sound stage followed by more details coming forward. .well worth the money. |
Feel free to post about the Orange duplex in the thread below. I also posted about my experience with the Orange duplex that thread. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/anyone-try-the-new-synergistic-research-orange-uef-duplex?highlight=orange%2Bduplex |
Here is why buying these high priced outlets is not good. It gives the owners free money and intices others (like Audioquest) to do a similar advertisement and sales tactic. I have a few of the earlier ones, Oyaide, Teslaplex, Cruz first, Furutech, and others. Recently I purchased an Audioquest Edison. I was so pissed off after seeing their wall plate was cheap plastic and not flat, the whole assembly is made in China, and the internal metal prongs had a scraping feeling when I plugged a cord into it, that I decided to send it back. The $179.00 price was screaming "price gouging", another fool, load their bank account, jump on the marketing bandwagon, etc. And their claims of their silver plating "driving away RF frequencies". |
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I’ve owned the Audience Hidden Treasure, which is supposed be identical to the Cardas outlet. I have cryoed Oyaide R0 outlets and an SR Blue outlet. Oyaide R0 has more midrange body than the Audience and SR Blue. R0 is more relaxed. Cardas is silver with a layer of rhodium. Not surprisingly that it’s rhodium plated, I can always hear the rhodium sound. Ultimately both the Audience/Cardas and SR Blue are lean sounding compared to the Oyaide R0. |