AC Outlet w/ Clairity, Trasparency, Bass Weight

Thanks for the posts Lak and others. I saw that Porter Ports thread before; basically every post on the most popular outlets: Porter Ports, Oyaide R1, Tesla Plex, Furutech FTD-20, Maestro, Wattgate 381, Isoclean. There are others too, more than I realized when I started researching. I am tempted to go with the Porter Port just to save money. I have an Acrolink PN-4030 power cord with Oyaide 004 plugs connected to a Purepower APS 1050 which runs my whole system. One Cable guru at AA highly recommends going with the Oyaide R1 because he found it to be work so well with the Acrolink/Oyaide power cord. Still deciding. But the FIM 880 will eventually be replaced.

Foster_9 on some of these forums they say the maestro outlets are a lot better than the porter ports that I'm using right now! The porter ports use to be the best on the market...

Mapman, you're right. No wonder people think negatively of high end audio and audiophiiles.

I just can't bring myself to sit and listen for any difference. Even after I installed a Hubble hospital grade plug I never paid any attention to whether it made a sonic improvement. So I guess that's a no for me.

here is a bit more explanation of my initial post in this thread.

approximately 4 years ago a local audiophile dealer friend offered to install a few of Oyaide duplex outlets in my system. i had been using the Jena Labs cryo'd outlets. he said he would remove them and charge me nothing if i did not like what they did. i told him it was not something i cared that much about, but what the heck....go ahead.

i had 11 of the Jena Labs outlets; initially my friend installed 3 of the R-1 outlets and WPC-Z cover plates. i used them on my amp, preamp and digital player.

i was not prepared for the degree of improvement in everything.....noise floor, vividness, dynamics, overall clarity. i was floored that simply improving the connection for my power cords could do that.

i had my friend add 2 more of the outlets so i could use them for everything, and still have enough of the Jena's in my system for a valid A/B. over the next 2 weeks approx 10 local audiophile visited for the A/B demo on the Oyaide outlets. 100% were very dumbfounded that there could be that difference.

then i replaced the other Jena's with the Oyaide R-1 and WPC-Z covers.

i was not expecting the change; in fact i was hopeing there would be no change. this was not any sort of placebo effect. the other friends who heard the A/B were quite skeptical.

ya gotta listen with an open mind.

yes; they are spendy. but paying for a gear upgrade to equal improving your power supply performance from these outlets would cost you more.....or maybe would not be attainable in any other way.