Electrical outlet upgrade worth it?

Lak, scientists have proven in the lab that bees can't fly!

Bob: If you're not sure about Matty's Creek, I'm sure that you'd find my equipment laughable, although it's set up pretty well and tweaked with lots of cheap, and some not so cheap tweaks. And the difference among the outlets, even in my set-up, is laughably obvious. FWIW, I use an Audiolab 8000A integrated (manufactured in 1986!) with a Cardas Golden Power Cord with the ground floated. My digital front end is an RCA 5223P DVD player with a Harmonic Tech adapter to a 26 guage power cord made out of 47 Labs OTA wire, a Hubbell male plug and Schurter iec. Both the RCA (had an Arcam Alpha 8SE which I sold because the RCA sounded better!) and Audiolab have been damped extensively with industrial floor tile and the RCA is plugged into an Inouye Line conditioner fed by another Cardas Golden PC (actually quite a nice conditioner) which I've changed the outlets in as well. Also have an older Gyrodec and older Elipson (now JM Labs) speakers. So Matty's gear is probably considered to be quite a step up from mine-if I were him, I'd definitely go for it. Ticks me off that I've been listening to my equipment for all these years not really hearing what it can really do. Matty: you can go to the review section here and read a review that I submitted on the cryoed World Power receptacle.

Hdm & Bob, as I’ve said before; it’s a matter of synergy!

Maxgain, who would beleive what honeybees make?

So there you have it Mat. If Blake can realize improvements with his economical setup then certainly you can as well.
BTW I'm not laughing at anyone's equipment here; we all started out from typically humble beginnings, myself included. Much of my very first rig was home-made by myself as a teenager.

Hi Bob: Certainly no insult intended to you-always enjoy reading your posts. I'm perhaps a bit unusual around here in the sense that I'm just trying to pull every last bit of performance out of reasonably cheap (but not necessarily bad or bad sounding) gear. That being said, it's a bit weird to think that I have more money tied up in the power cord that feeds my line conditioner and two outlets than my digital front end. I've also listened to a couple of systems (one at the dealer and one in a private home) in the past few months that were worth, at retail, about 10X what I have invested, and, yes, they were better, but not so much better to make me want to lay down the cash, even if I had it. I can remember when Ivor Tienenbraun's "the source is most important" was very controversial. Perhaps "power" is the true source and this is just being realized now. Probably also controversial.