Dedicated power and outlets

In my own experience, replacing the Power Ports on a PS Audio P300 with Furutechs* made for a significant sonic improvement, although the main reason I did this was that I'm using Furutech AC and IEC connectors on most of my power cords. Dave

* Not a drop-in replacement but not all that difficult either.

Mrjstark,i still have one somewhere in the house and would gladly sell it to you.I bought it at the CES from Music Direct dealers (they had a last day of the show special)for $35.I bought it just to try out after reading Art Dudley's review several years ago.I burned it in the video system first and after several months installed in the audio system.It sounded OK (lightweight and splashy)and i can see where it can bring certain improvements to a dark system.But i uninstalled it after i noticed that my power cords were not gripped tightly enough by it.Only later i read Art Dudley's follow-up regarding poor build quality.
After that article Stereophile pulled the plug on reccomending these outlets untill the problem is fixed.

My vote goes to the Oyaide R1s. I have tried many outlets and these are IMO the way to go!

Overhang, I don't judge your finding and I DON'T buy on mag. recommendations. I am NOT saying there aren't any other options. There are others but I simply don't have any experience with them (by exp. I mean that I never had a chance to evaluate it in my system). I could recommend - Furutech or Wattgate 381 or 381Ag but those are a expensive alternatives and I think Jamesk58 is looking for the best bang for his $$$. I can also add Signal cable - MagicStrip (about $100) 4-outlet Power Extension with Marinco hospital grade AC plug or Hubbell 4-Plex High Quality 20A Outlet Box. But he still needs good quality outlet(s).

If I post a recommendation or opinion, it is strictly from my own experience. If you want, you can check my posts about tweaks and such. You will find out that I am not a big fan or a user. But these did bring some improvements. There were big enough for me to notice it. I also got them from M-Direct. With money back guarantee, I could have return them easily but I did not.
I own Vandersteen Quatros. Stereophile wrote great review about these spks. In general, I agree (90%) with Michael Fremer, July, 2006 review but if for any reason, after a year or two he changed his mine about Quatros - it would definitely NOT affect my own judgment.
P.S
I got 4 PS Outlets, 2 Furutech and 1 Wattgate 381.
PS outlets - show special, NY HE SHOW 2002 - I am not selling. Sorry.

Hi,

I can attest that addding dedicated power lines is one of those best tweaks to do for your system. We are moved into our new house and I added 5 dedicated lines, all with 3 strand 2.5MM thick cables in dedicated pipes in the walls. At the end, I am using HMS gold-rhodium power outlets and in the fuse box, I have a mix of silver or copper 500VA/16Amp AHP fuses with AHP Gold III fuse block for each fuse. The basement circuit is totally isolated from the top floor with the use of a electric splitter (I not sure what it is called) and I have noticed that any other appliances that are run, either sauna, fridge, lights, washer, dryer, have no impact at all in the listening room.

I also used the SST stuff on the advice of Rushton and have used it with great reults. I used only a sparing amount on my mono amp power cords only for experimental purposes and it seemed to add some sparkle to the system, this was almost 1 1/2 years ago. I will try to redo some of the connections in the new room to see what will change, right now with the new room and lines, the system is more alive and dynamic then ever before, so I will proceed slowly before doing some of these other fine tuning tweaks. Good luck,
Audioquest4life