Please Recommend a Duplex Receptacle

Audiophilehi

Audiophilehi

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New construction for my listening room should start in 3 weeks or so. Would like to install some quality receptacles that don't break the bank. I would need about 8 to 10 receptacles so I would like to keep it around the $50.00 each amount. I would love to have the Furutech GTX-D (G) Duplex Copper Receptacles but that would run into a small fortune.
 
Paul,

All outlets are not created equal. Neither is their intended use. Are some of your planned outlets used for more critical applications? Maybe splurge for a couple where the quality might be more important. Others can be swapped out later if you want.
 
Perhaps you can swing a few Furutech receptacles for your stereo equipment. I think it would be well worth the added expense as the power coming into that room is what you'll be listening to.

I'm using the Furutech/GTX-D NCF(R) supplied power via a 100A subpanel with four 20A twisted pair wiring for each audio circuit with the neutral and hot wires wrapped on 2" centers and the ground wire placed parallel in PVC conduit. A white paper presented at the 2010 AES 129th Convention shows this method has the lowest ground voltage induction tested.
 
Dizzie said:
Paul,

All outlets are not created equal. Neither is their intended use. Are some of your planned outlets used for more critical applications? Maybe splurge for a couple where the quality might be more important. Others can be swapped out later if you want.
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That’s a great suggestion. I might splurge for 3 of the better outlets. One for each of my PS Audio BHK Mono’s that will be plugged directly into the outlets and one for my Shunyata Denali v2 that will have some of my source and DAC equipment. The rest will be Hubble outlets for the rest of my equipment.
 
LenWhite said:
Perhaps you can swing a few Furutech receptacles for your stereo equipment. I think it would be well worth the added expense as the power coming into that room is what you'll be listening to.

I'm using the Furutech/GTX-D NCF(R) supplied power via a 100A subpanel with four 20A twisted pair wiring for each audio circuit with the neutral and hot wires wrapped on 2" centers and the ground wire placed parallel in PVC conduit. A white paper presented at the 2010 AES 129th Convention shows this method has the lowest ground voltage induction tested.
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Ditto Len with the above comment. Thanks for the great suggestions.
 
Paul

The Hubbell 5362's are very good outlets if you don't want to splurge on the "big buck" outlets for all ten. Pass & Seymour/Legrand also makes very similar outlet. I seem to remember at some point Caelin making the same recommendation for high quality value outlets.
 
My favorites of what I've tried:

1) Hubbell 5362 cryo'd and cooked from Take 5 Audio (ironically the cheapest; also the basis for the Shunyata SR-Z1)
2) Audioquest Edison - silver plated

On the fence about:
3) Furutech GTX-D (G) - (In one system I like them (older stock); in my simpler system I tried them twice (2 different outlets) and couldn't believe how veiled they were; the resolution was terrible for delicate sounds)

Duplexes I didn't like:
4) Audience Hidden Treasure - rhodium plated, made by Cardas (if you like fast and dynamic, I've never heard anything like this duplex; it wowed me but I couldn't get past the midrange which I found too lean
5) Furutech GTX-D (R) - like the Audience, rhodium plated and I had the same perception of sound.


I'd love to try the Shunyata Copperconn, however, they're $300 or more.
 
Rnrmf said:
My favorites of what I've tried:

1) Hubbell 5362 cryo'd and cooked from Take 5 Audio (ironically the cheapest; also the basis for the Shunyata SR-Z1)
2) Audioquest Edison - silver plated

On the fence about:
3) Furutech GTX-D (G) - (In one system I like them (older stock); in my simpler system I tried them twice (2 different outlets) and couldn't believe how veiled they were; the resolution was terrible for delicate sounds)

Duplexes I didn't like:
4) Audience Hidden Treasure - rhodium plated, made by Cardas (if you like fast and dynamic, I've never heard anything like this duplex; it wowed me but I couldn't get past the midrange which I found too lean
5) Furutech GTX-D (R) - like the Audience, rhodium plated and I had the same perception of sound.


I'd love to try the Shunyata Copperconn, however, they're $300 or more.
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Thanks Christian...I don’t think Take 5 audio sell the Hubbell 5362 anymore. I was just on the website and didn’t see them.

I am leaning towards the Audioquest Edison for 3 of the outlets and the Hubble 5362 for the remainder.
 
Audiophilehi said:
Thanks Christian...I don’t think Take 5 audio sell the Hubbell 5362 anymore. I was just on the website and didn’t see them.

I am leaning towards the Audioquest Edison for 3 of the outlets and the Hubble 5362 for the remainder.
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I installed the aq Edison and had favorable results compared to psaudio (for about three times the price).


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LenWhite said:
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I'm using the Furutech/GTX-D NCF(R) supplied power via a 100A subpanel with four 20A twisted pair wiring for each audio circuit with the neutral and hot wires wrapped on 2" centers and the ground wire placed parallel in PVC conduit. A white paper presented at the 2010 AES 129th Convention shows this method has the lowest ground voltage induction tested.
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The AES paper:

Ground Loops: The Rest of the Story
Bill Whitlock, AES Fellow and Jamie Fox, P.E.
This paper was presented at the AES 129th Convention, 4-7 November 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA

ABSTRACT
The mechanisms that enable so-called ground loops to cause well-known hum, buzz, and other audio system
noise problems are well known. But what causes power-line related currents to flow in signal cables in the first
place? This paper explains how magnetic induction in ordinary premises AC wiring creates the small voltage
differences normally found among system ground connections, even if “isolated” or “technical” grounding is
used. The theoretical basis is explored, experimental data shown, and an actual case history related. Little
has been written about this “elephant in the room” topic in engineering literature and apparently none in the
context of audio or video systems.It is shown that simply twisting L-N pairs in the premises wiring can
profoundly reduce system noise problems.

http://www.jensen-transformers.com/...est-of-Story-Whitlock-Fox-Generic-Version.pdf
 
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