Rhodium vs Gold AC connectors

Hi Audiolabyrinth, The issue is that this hobby is not only expensive, the problem is that maybe you buy the connector, spend $341.00 and imagine if the result is not as you expected??That`s why I suggested before to match the wall outlet with the base metal of the original Krell amp connector?May be with a basic Furutech fpx CU ( $ 66.00) you could have a good result and avoid spending 341.00 in a AC male connector.I suggested that because you mentioned that the amp sounded better with the copper wall outlet made in mexico.I am of the idea of not touching the original cables of equipments.I only changed the connectors of a PAD musaeus power cord ,after having emailed Jim Aud, the founder of Purist Audio Design.He told me that these Furutech FI 11 N1 g will work good on the cable.So I did it.Anyway if you want to take the risk and put the connector just do it.Who knows may be it will sound wonderful. Anyway the general rule in Hi End audio follows an asymptotic curve :in order to get a tiny step forward in sound performance you have to spend a huge quantity of money.Unfortunately hehe!Hope this helps.Cheers!Raf

Hi rafael0054, I was considering putting the new Rhodium on the refrigerator when it gets here monday or tuesday, however, when I think about it, The krell will cook the crap out of it alot faster!, I will just suffer the sound of burn-in I suppose, do you believe this to be a good idea?

In my 300B tube based system I prefer the Furutech Gold/copper AC plugs. Rhodium has always sounded a little too hard akin to (gag) nickel. FWIW.

Hi Sonic_genius, I am sure that outlets are system dependent, I do not know if you are aware that I had the Gold and Rhodium here for complete evauation, the gold was two dimensional sounding, all music was in front of the speakers, no debth, the gold on solid state and tube equipment that I have sounded hard sounding compaired to the Rhodium out let's, also, equipment is only part of it all, the most all this does have to do with is the cables being used, however, what componet's do you have that have the 300B tube's?, and what cables and model do you have, welcome to the thread.

Hy Audiolabyrinth.The best way to evacuate doubts is to try.In the case of testing gtx-d R I think is better that you cook it in the Krell.What could be a good test is trying the gtx-d R vs fpx cu to see what happens using the original´s krell male AC connector.I know that gtxd R has better isolation materials but on the other hand gtx-d R doesn`t have the same base metal conductors of your amp´s plug.So that`s why I insisted about making this try.Sometimes in Hi End audio you verify that cheaper hi end products could work better than higher ones IF they have more sinergy with equipments.Remember that your amp is from 2003?So may be it was designed to work with simpler outlets than the ones you see nowadays.But anyway if you see that with the rhodium outlet works far better than with your copper outlet made in mexico, then I don`t see the need of testing other outlets.Cheers.Raf