Hi Misternice, Are you saying that The Furutech GTX-D Gold recepticles take a week to sound great without the cooking proccess that Chris Van Hause does their at Vh-audio?, This is cool, all of us will have the GTX-D gold outlets!, tell us here what your impressions are with one furutech GTX-D gold, I bet it will get a little better over another week or so?, interesting the power cords you have mentioned I have no exsperience with, yeah, tell us about them when you can, that's what we all are friends for is to learn off each other, BTW, I do not like brightness ina system myself, really, I cannot even remeber when that has happened last in any given system I have owned in many years, my biggest problem I hate that I do not have, but have had before with a couple of cd-players was the imeadiate in your face, up-front sound stage, I call this a forward presatation, That my friend is a big no,no, here in my house, if any given componet does that on my cables, amp, speakers, well then, that componet is gone!, two componets come to mind that I have owned that fit that bill, The Cary cd-500 up sampling solid state cd-player and the Ayon cd-2s up sampling tube cd-player, cheers.