Hi Macdude, looks like your impression's of the furutech wall frame and cover plate is my impression's, I tried the gold on tube/solid state hybred digital and solid state amp, the gold sounded good at best but was very veiled compaired to the Rhodium outlet, these take along time to burn-in, I am still doing it by playing music only, the good thing is we got instant gratification from the frame and cover plate,however, there is a place for both version's I can imagine, I still need one more frame and cover plate, e-mail me where I can get a discount?, where do you have the R version's on?