Hi all. I just had a birthday (49 years old and NO, i DONT believe it!), and i
wanted to spend some birthday cash so i ordered the PS Audio duplex outlets
from Audio Advisor. Anyone else experience them? -Bob Bernstein.

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Hi all. I just had a birthday (49 years old and NO, i DONT believe
it!), and i wanted to spend some birthday cash so i ordered the PS
Audio duplex outlets from Audio Advisor. Anyone else experience them?
-Bob Bernstein.



Umm... they are good, provided you changed all the outlets in that same
circuit into the same PS Audio duplex outlets. Or you have a dedicated
power line just for your equipments.

Otherwise, it will not make any difference. As a matter of fact, I once
contact PS Audio myself, and their tech. support told me the above!

I have to appreciate their honesty.

Lawrence Leung

Lawrence Leung wrote in news:HLjSb.140588
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(RBernst929) wrote in
news:G%dSb.177854$I06.1825317@attbi_s01:

Hi all. I just had a birthday (49 years old and NO, i DONT believe
it!), and i wanted to spend some birthday cash so i ordered the PS
Audio duplex outlets from Audio Advisor. Anyone else experience them?
-Bob Bernstein.



Umm... they are good, provided you changed all the outlets in that same
circuit into the same PS Audio duplex outlets. Or you have a dedicated
power line just for your equipments.

Otherwise, it will not make any difference. As a matter of fact, I once
contact PS Audio myself, and their tech. support told me the above!

I have to appreciate their honesty.

Lawrence Leung


I cannot see where it would make any difference at all if all of the
outlets were changed on a branch circuit unless they were daisy chained.
Daisy chaining outlets is not a good thing AFAIC.

I changed my outlet to a GFIC outlet. I didn't want any safety issues
with grounding, not grounding, etc. I highly recommend GFIC outlets.

r


--
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with DLT tapes.

The PS Audio outlet is a 20 amp, hospital grade outlet made by Hubbel. It also
has an isolated ground. If the outlet's line is a home run to the breaker box,
it's a good choice, but if you have a good electrical supply house nearby, you
can get pretty much the same thing for lower cost, except that the supply
house's outlet is likely to be orange. Either way, it's a good outlet.

From what I understand, the key to a hospital grade outlet is that it makes
tight contact (good for audio), and is resistant to sparking when plugging and
unplugging (eh)

They are also more ruggedly built using better connector design and a
more compliant polymer that is quite difficult to break. If you have
ever tried getting a 20 amp solid core wire into a cheap outlet, you
know how fragile they can be. Most home wiring is daisy-chained by the
way. It saves a load on wire cost and on junction boxes or breakers.
- Bill
www.uptownaudio.com
Roanoke VA
(540) 343-1250

"CCSman" wrote in message
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The PS Audio outlet is a 20 amp, hospital grade outlet made by
Hubbel. It also
has an isolated ground. If the outlet's line is a home run to the
breaker box,
it's a good choice, but if you have a good electrical supply house
nearby, you
can get pretty much the same thing for lower cost, except that the
supply
house's outlet is likely to be orange. Either way, it's a good
outlet.

From what I understand, the key to a hospital grade outlet is that
it makes
tight contact (good for audio), and is resistant to sparking when
plugging and
unplugging (eh)

I have a licensed electrican came to my house to wire a dedicated 20amp
power outlet behind my stereo system, all the way to the main breaker box,
using... Oopps, I don't even want to go into what kind of wire I'm using.
But seriously, I hear no small "hmmm..." noise from my speakers while idle.

The PS Audio outlets are good, not only they are hospital grade, but
because of its brass (compare to the normal "dirty" copper) heavily coated
with polished nickel and have a tight grip.

I once look into the Furutech (US$80.00) and the Wattgate (US$180.00), I
don't know how on earth they can sell that expensive, except they claim to
use gold plated, but all you need to do is to apply a thin layer of ProGold
on your PS Audio outlets or even the orange hospital grade outlet.

Lawrence Leung