Wall Outlet Oyaide, Furutek, Wattgate, and others

I was thinking about my post above regarding plating. I got this off the Cardas web site.

"Materials: All of our male RCA plugs are machined from brass. Contact surfaces are plated with silver, silver with a rhodium flash, or gold. Outer barrels are plated with silver or gold. Dielectric is FEP."

If you read above, a brass rca connector is plated with silver. After that, they plate it again with gold or rhodium. That's 3 different metals. So if you buy either a gold or rhodium connector, it has a silver plate underneath that you are probably not aware of. I'm wondering how much that intermediate plate has on sound quality.

I would like to know, what is better, The best Furetech or the best Oyaide recepticle, I researched them, they are very similiar, the one thing I cannot come to terms with is the fact neither recepticle has a isolated ground on them, and at the asking price, that's really inadequete!

I decided on getting the furetech GTX-D recepticle gold, the spring clamping and the way the conductor is put in a hole on the back, then tighten the screw on the side all the way down on the raw electrical conductor was the deciding factor to me, I believe this will sound better just by the way it is designed, cheers.

http://www.hubbellcatalog.com/wiring/datasheet.asp?PN=HBL5361

Side and back mounts for wire. You can clamp just the bare wire. All brass non ferrous. The parts/screws that are magnetic you can replace with brass. 6-8 US on Ebay and then you can have a whole bucket full cryo'd for cheap. These sound really good. Lower resonance than a standard duplex. Tom

Hi

For The Elrod Statement Gold yours vote GO to Furuteck FI48 or FI50?
Gold or Rodium?