Oyaide, Hubble, FIM etc, any consensus on flavors?

If you're looking for outlets to 'Do No Harm', I like the Porter Ports and Avatar Afterburner 8. To me the Oyaide outlets are colored, but that's my opinion.

Krell_man

thanks... but which are colored how?

I don't like to think that I can use a cable or outlet to push the sound in a certain direction. I just want to hear what's being played as close to the original as possible.

The Porter Ports and Avatar AfterBurner 8 outlet don't seem to affect the sound.

The Oyaide outlets seem to. I had the R1, the SWO-GX and SWO-XXX all in my system at the same time in my power conditioner and wall. According to which outlet I used, the sound would change.

I just personally don't like that, especially trying something plugged into this one, then that one, then the third one. Now, which one did I like the best?

The Porter Ports and Avatar AfterBurner 8 outlets are consistant, whether it's "neutral" or not, I like that.

Chuck

Chuck

Thanks much. That's also quite understandable if those are the guidelines for your systems development.

I find now and then however that some slight or minor alteration or enhancement/attenuation of a thing, via cabling or isolating, or tube rolling, to augment it's performance or simply to bring it into my own preffs range to a greater capacity by some minor tweaking is more desireable to me than to get back on the audio treadmill and seek out another set of speakers, amps, source, etc.

Also there is the component of increase. Overall increase or merely a partial one can be obliged in the same manner as I’ve just described. Perhaps one can call it allowing a thing to be at it’s best. Perform without any restrictions, or reducing it’s most glaring trait.

Naturally then I feel along with you to some degree that better peripherals all add into that mix… yet here and there still, perhaps one coloration in an accessory could be just the thing to polish the whole of it off.

Your replacement of outlets in that conditioner for example is a whole new idea to me and one I’d never have thought to do until now. Though I’m going to check with RSA to see which ones they used in their haley before I make any changes there.

I feel a rig is indeed a mixture regardless, when it’s all said and done… if it’s to come out of the oven done well.

Were the Avatar AfterBurner 8’s in any way better, or just the same but cheaper?

Many many thanks.

The Hubbell 5362 is a nice sounding outlet for not much money. Doesn't roll off the highs or "soften" the presentation like gold platings can do. Doesn't spotlight the highs like silver. Fatter bass and a little more "laid back" than rhodium.

In general, I've found that I tend to prefer un-plated high copper plugs and outlets in most places, though rhodium is ok in some spots. High copper, IMHO, is a very "honest" presentation.

I'd suggest starting with a high copper outlet (Hubbell, Porter, Jenna Labs, etc) and see how you like the presentation. Then, if you find something is missing, you can play around with various platings.