Hi Roxy54, I agree with you, I was quite stunned with the performance of the furutech GTX-D Rhodium outlet's I have over the wpo's-wall power outlet's I was useing, I bought one of these just so I could run a 30 amp single pole breaker on my amp, as it turned out, I was floored with the sound of these, I bought two and one wall frame and cover plate, will be getting another wall frame and cover plate, the wall frame and cover plate increase's the performance by 20% to 30% by my evaluation's, I felt like I was living under a rock when I heard what a good outlet could do, I tried some outlet's years ago, worked good, not to this kind of performance, never did I ever imagine or expect wpo's could do this these day's, I am still burning mine in, currently, I have 559 hrs on the first wpo, 306 hrs on the second wpo out of 700 hrs that is said that it takes to burn these in, cheers. |
Hi macdude, which version do you have, the Rhodium or Gold? |
Hi Macdude, looks like your impression's of the furutech wall frame and cover plate is my impression's, I tried the gold on tube/solid state hybred digital and solid state amp, the gold sounded good at best but was very veiled compaired to the Rhodium outlet, these take along time to burn-in, I am still doing it by playing music only, the good thing is we got instant gratification from the frame and cover plate,however, there is a place for both version's I can imagine, I still need one more frame and cover plate, e-mail me where I can get a discount?, where do you have the R version's on? |
very interesting macdude, nice set-up you have, thankyou for getting back to me. |
How many furutech outlet's do you have macdude? |
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Bacardi, Welcome to the thread, your outlet will sound alot better at 300 hrs, all the bloat will be gone, but you will have extended very defined bass and dynamics, with speed through out all the sound, for the asking price, I really believe the GTX-D outlet's are a bargain for what they deliver with performance, now becareful, sometimes, to many of them on the same system will kill sound stage bloom. |
Bacardi, I cannot give you an answer on the sound differences of the oyaide wall frame,cover plate combo and the furutech wall frame and cover plate, I have never owned the oyaide, but it is my opinion, oyaide makes some good stuff, I have oyaide on my Tara Labs Cobalt power cord from the Tara factory, second best model IEC and wall plug oyaide makes currently, sounds good to me. |
Bacardi, yes, that is what I have, the furutech wall frame and cover plate, it does work, I say 20% to 30% improved performance, depending on the system and outlet used with wall frame and cover plate, cheers. |
Barcardi, look for ward to your impressions, however, if I were you, I would not use the supplied stainless steel none magnetic 2" wood screws, first off, the ruin the gain box to accept any other screw, second, they sound terrible!, the best sounding screws for this application I have found is 6-32 or 8-32 thread 2" length magnetic zinc screws that is long enoough for the wall frame application, 1" to 1/2" is common in the u.s.a. for use on outlet's,as said, you need 2", you will gain sound stage bloom,organic sound to vocals, you loose no transparency, the bass is not as clean, but the bass is very clean enough to where you also gain a bigger bass thump, the music all blends better with zinc screws, it is my opinion, that the supplied screws from furutech that comes with the wall frame kills to much of the electrical field, this is a sound theory, Tara Labs has magnetic element's inside their ground stations long,long before High-fidelity cables come out with magnetic conduction cables, based on most enjoy the sound of these cables, and these company's use magnatism to their advantage of their cables, there must be something to what I am saying here, the difference in the sound of the screws is not subtle, on the other hand, very noticeable, cheers. |
Barcardi, any electrical supply house carries the zinc 6-32 and 8-32 machine thread 2" screw's, oem house outlet's are 1/2" to 3/4" to 1", but in your case as well as mine, the both of us have to use 2" screw's because of useing the furutech wall frame, you can get 6-32 2" zinc screw's at lowes or home depot, I believe to get the 8-32 2" zinc screw's you would have to go the the electrical supply house, likly, you will only need to use the 6-32 if you have not already used the furutech 2" stainless none magnetic wood thread screw's, my box got ruined by the furutech 2" screw's, so I had to go with the 8-32 2" screw's, they are a little bigger around with a bigger head on them, a pain to screw in the gain box,however, they worked, I use a brown industrial very thick fiberglass gain box that you can only get from the electrical supply house, the gain boxes at lowes or home depot are dinky cheap in comparison, cheers. |
