Rhodium vs Gold AC connectors

Hi Audiolabyrinth,
Thanks for your conclusions.They are very helpful.I´m glad to hear that in several krell power amps the stock power cord works better than the new ones.It may confirm the idea that some audio components were designed to work with their original power cords ( that´s why they don´t have a iec termination in the chassis).If your next test using rhodium outlet gtx d in the Krell toghether with the same outlet in the cd player will not work, then one possibility could be to use the cheapest model furutech fpx cu, which is made of phosphore bronze then plated with copper.In this way you will have the same base metals in the plug of the krell and the outlet.It could work very well and at the same time you could have the characteristics in performance of Furutech products.This fpx cu outlet is the one I use to feed my Shunyata Hydra 4 power conditionner were I plug all my components of my system with great result.Hope this helps.Cheers!Raf

Hi Rafael0054, Thankyou, that was some helpful information, I will do exactly as you have said if the other Rhodium does not work good with a Rhodium on the krell, you know, these older krell amps are finiky to any change attempts, very odd!, I will absolutley keep the Furutech FPX cu outlet in mind, may be a while, I am not sending the Gold back untill saturday morning, then because it is christmas, it may be 4 or 5 day's till I get the Rhodium, this time, I am sticking it on the refrigerator for 300 hrs before I use it, I know now exactly all the break-in changes of sound for the Gold and Rhodium, ha, I do not want to listen to that again, LOL!

Rafael0054, you asked of some impression's between the Furutech GTX-D Rhodium and Gold?, The biggest mistake most make of the Rhodium is they think that the mid-range is reccessed with-in the sound stage, the fact is, that depends on your cables, I have cables that are world renowned to have one of the best sound stages possible, that includes a front to back very deep sound stage that is rare for any cable to do, that said, The Rhodium outlet keeps that intact, it is more forward with the mids than the Gold, but also has an incredible depth to the Rhodium that the Gold does not do at all!, a test that can be done is, walk up to your speakers, walk all the way to the wall behind your speakers, if you can hear the music close to what it is like in front of your speakers, you have good depth, the Gold absolutley did not have any sound what so ever behind the speakers, everything was in front of the speakers, but not forward sounding at all, this Rafael0054 is 2-dimensional sounding versus the 3-dimensional sound of the Rhodium, hope this helps.

Rafael0054, also, I will add, The furutech GTX-D Rhodium also has a bigger stonger middle, more together layered sound where as the Gold version is not as big or tight vivid sound stage, I am into presatation alot as you can read here,hope this was some help as well.

Rafael0054, Do you think there was a possibility that The Rhodium gave the Krell a bass suck out because the Rhodium used never had 200 watts and more on it?, like maybe it was not burned in to the power of my amp that is nearly 500 watts just on idle?, mmmm?