Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets

Thanks for your kind words. I am a scientist at heart (also by training) and am very intensely interested in what I am interested in… and drive to understand the forest through the trees. My interests are very long termed.

@vthokie83

+1 Good approach, I’ve done that before with other accessories. Not being in a hurry is really important when evaluating changes likely to be subtle.

@emergingsoul

The quick answer, no. Not that I might not try that some day.

I tend to go through an upgrade cycle… speakers, components, wires, and adjust for a year or two and then just listen for many years. I’m in the listening period. During this time I know exactly what my system sounds like, 2 - 3 hours of listening a day. Then every once in a while I’ll think of some little tweak I have not tried… like a few months ago I got Cardas caps for my unused RCA outputs on my preamp. I didn’t notice any difference… but then the cost was very low. Then I tried one outlet… nice improvement… then the one to the amp… small improvement, not as much as the one to the other components… but worthy of the $200 investment.

Anyway during the long period between upgrades… for me usually about seven years, I use this time to evaluate more subtle small upgrades.

@squared80 

Or, perhaps, you do not understand.

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OP,

Consider just installing direct lines with hospital grade outlets at first. You’ll get the boost in sound quality. Then a few years down the line when everything is optimal, swap out one of the hospitals for a Furutech. You will be able to make a judgement whether to upgrade the rest. You’ll have financially recovered from earlier big purchases. If spend a $1K on outlets you will never hear the difference… it’ll just come with the improvement in direct lines.

This is something simple to do yourself. Makes it an easy thing to do later.

I just replaced my hospital grade outlets with “Furutech GTX-D NCF(R) Ultimate Nano-Crystal Rhodium-Plated AC Duplex Receptacle”. They were a notable improvement.