Rhodium vs Gold AC connectors

Audiolabyrinth, at CES I talked with Furutech about why they did not have beryllium copper GTX-Ds. The answer was conductivity. I asked whether solid copper with gold or rhodium plating was better. He said yes, if it was thin plating. My present wall plug is an R0 which is solid beryllium copper. I am awaiting another GTX-Dr for it.

Hi Dear fellows.
So according to what Tbg was told at CES copper is the best conductor material for any outlet, connector etc etc and the plating is only the final touch that could give you either bigger mids, velvety character or higher resolution in the upper frequencies and dark background depending on your choice if gold or rhodium plating and of course the interaction with the components in each system.I think in future I `ll try a gtxd R.I`m a bit afraid that my system prefers gold versus rhodium( I have tried a FI 11 N 1 R connector in my Krell kav 300 cd player and it was a disaster as a result and I ended up with the gold version)So may be, as Michelzay said before, for feeding power conditionners rhodium is better than gold.So I think it will be my next try.Any other comments will be appreciated.Cheers!Raf

Rafael0054, I had always thought that any plating had adverse effects on sound. I have two quite technically competent friends with the one hating rhodium and one loving it. I have no negative reactions to rhodium on power cords or outlets. I do have my continued negative reaction to gold wires or gold plating. With no pun intended, gold in ics, on ac power anywhere, and for speaker wires always has a glow to it that is slow and smeared.

The real question is whether or not there is anything better than rhodium. What about platinum, silver, palladium. We all know that copper oxide is not very conductive.

Right now I'm sticking with rhodium on the HFC power cords and waveguided power center and no gold anywhere.

TBG, I am still burning in my second wpo, damn, the first one does not have 400 hrs on it yet, however, I am happy to tell you that the second one has 234 hrs as of friday, I do 10 to 13 hrs a day, the sound has dramtically improved the last two day's, each time I get impressed, it gets better from there, I tell you Norm, that single pole 30 amp breaker I put on the amp that took 17 hrs to burn in made my sound incredible for $5.00, best $5.00 I ever spent in my life, really!, a 20 amp breaker must have been chocking this amp, speed and dynamics, and open sound is off the chart's, I thought about what you said to me Norm about the stock power cable on the amp, I believe putting a furutech FI-50 R on that may do really good?

Audiolabyrinth, ironically, when I put my dedicated line in 26 years ago, I had big tube amps and on turn on they kept tripping the 20 amp breakers. The electrician warned me about 30 amp breakers and I had them installed.

I think a furutech fi-50(r) is what the female output connection on the HFC pcs was before modification.