Recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets


Greetings,

I’d like to get some recommendations for 20 amp electrical outlets.

I currently have two PS Audio outlets in my current room, but my system will be relocated to its permanent location when I finish my dedicated listening room in a few months.  I’m using 10 gauge Romex for the dedicated 20 amp outlets.

I have a few electrical outlets on my list of interest;

- Audioquest NRG Edison Duplex

- Pangea Audio Premier XL

- The Maestro Outlet (by Cruze First Audio) - *Great reviews on website and forums

- Hubbell outlet (not sure of any particular model number?)

Please share your impressions and any comparison experiences would be great.

Thanks in advance!

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@normb I shared you advice with my electrician yesterday and he advised he will install the grounding as you mentioned. He clearly understood what I was trying to convey and advised it was definitely a great idea. The subject matter has come up before, but I didn’t think about pursuing the idea, so thanks for sharing this information!

@1971gto455ho Said: My guess is then most of it doesn’t make a difference and it’s a wee bit of a scam…you think ?

I wouldn’t declare it a scam unless I decide to test multiple outlets in my system and don’t hear a difference. The exaggerated advertisements may be a bit of a scam.  However, I’m not so quick to call something a scam just because I don’t hear a difference in a hifi product. What I’ve learned in this hifi hobby is, we tend to put a value on what sound we want. If a product squeezes a little bit more juice out of your system, you have to ask yourself, is this incremental improvement worth the asking price?  So, people may hear a difference in the outlets and feel a $300 a Furutech is worth the upgrade.  Some people totally discount an expensive speaker or component simply because they can afford it, so they trash the product and never heard it. I understand expectation bias and all the other things that might make one feel like they hear a positive or negative difference in any hifi product. We all have different rooms with different gear and any biases that may come into play, so we’re gonna get various opinions, but I still value the feedback from the hifi community. I tend to learn information above and beyond what I was initially seeking. It’s all good!

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@dbt 

Thanks for that.

One of my best friends is a master electrician who’s finishing the wiring on my new house in a few weeks (I hope, I hope, I hope) and I ran an aluminum sheathed 10 AWG line from the new breaker box to my audio room/man cave ending in an Oyaide R0 (non-plated copper) 20A outlet.

I told him how I wanted a single, independent circuit and he said “well, it’s all on the same ground.”

And “ground” and neutral are at the same impedance level as they’re connected.

 DOH!

That got me rethinking some of the posts I’ve read here and around the web regarding “a separate line into my audio room” and rereading some of the stuff I’ve got on grounding.

https://esgrounding.com/blog/bonding-neutral-and-ground-at-main-panel

I DO USE a power conditioner (Running Springs Audio DUKE) though and believe it makes a difference taking out the hair dryer/HVAC transients/DC line noise. 

A person could have a 2nd service, meter and panel installed that would serve their audio equipment only. No appliance and / or motor noise since wirings would be entirely separate.

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