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RE: Power Port dissected

Posted by zacster on February 4, 2021 at 19:47:07:

The article lists the Hubbel at $25, and at that price it might be worth a try. The Acme at $40 is a little bit too much. The others I can do without. Given the descriptions though I thought they'd all be much more. Nothing under a grand can be audiophile grade, can it? ;) There is one reason that I do believe in terms of needing a higher grade outlet and that is the physical scraping that goes on inserting the plug. I don't want to scrape off my gold plating with a cheap outlet.

Overall though I don't believe it will make any difference but I've never tried. For that matter I've never tried an upscale power cable, but that is about to change. I've ordered the parts to build a VH Audio power cable that will be hard wired to my amp since it doesn't have an IEC. I couldn't figure out why I would want an IEC added in spite of some replies to a query I made here a few weeks ago. Why add another part? Isn't the point to reduce these things? I'd have to solder either way but cutting metal is a real PITA. If I decide I want to try something else I'll solder something else, or maybe it is screwed down? I'll have to look. It goes through a cheap power switch and a fuse before going to the cloth covered transformer leads. Oh, it is a highly modded ST-70 I'm using this for.