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Maestro faceplate - does it make a difference?

Hi, Does the Maestro faceplate (used with the Maestro outlet)  make a difference compared to an inexpensive one?  THANX, FRED
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Jea48, I’ll leave you to your thoughts. It's pretty clear you’re following the wrong, you know....

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we know we are getting fuk’d as a audiophile group when we start talking about the type of screw holding a cover plate in a wall outlet sigh.

next it will be what type of hair cut is best. oh o now look what I started.

cotton or synthetic fabrics on your listening clothing.

do you lay your record sleeve with the opening facing your system or on the floor next.

does the type of lighting in your room make a difference.

do you use steel nails, brass nails or glue to hold your hard wood down.

oh maybe you have concrete do you use Portland or a mixture of exotic concretes.


seriously guys don’t get your toes in a bind over the small stuff. do what you like but don’t argue over it.

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Huh?! What? Uh, oh, somebody didn’t get the memo. "The Devil is in the Details." 👹

I respectfully submit that "the details" are what separate real audiophiles from weekend audiophiles, or should I say, gulp, Mid Fi? Some common examples: (1) which direction you insert the fuse, (2) which direction you connect the interconnects, (3) the precise placement of speakers, especially the distance of separation, within an inch, (4) the absolute level of the CD transport, (5) the absolutely correct geometry of the tonearm/cartridge, within 1/10 degree, (6) cleaning, demagnetizing and ionizing CDs prior to play, (7) establishing correct system absolute polarity, cleaning electrical contacts of all audio AND non-audio wall outlets.

cheers, GK

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@glennewdick      

+1

If you find something that shouldn't make a difference but does make a difference then it is time to either 

1) check and root out a faulty piece of equipment (lose wire, broken down capacitor, ground loop, faulty software/firmware setting or bug etc - there are tons of things that can go wrong.)
2) check yourself into an institution for those who hear strange things in their head.
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Whoa!! Look out! Shadorne’s on the warpath again. 🦃 His splendid anti-audiophile rant reminds me to start a thread sometime on the dodgy subject, How small can something be and still make a noticeable improvement to the sound? Suggested candidates: silver holographic foils from PWB (3/4" by 1/8"), Graphene layer on the Black Fuse (one molecule thick), Mpingo disc, Green pen, Red X Coordinate Pen for writing messages), tiny little acoustic bowls, replacing stock screws in midrange driver with non magnetic screws, the Walker Black Diamond Crystal for high end stereo cartridges, cryogenics (invisible and weightless), teleportation tweak (self promotion alert) (weightless and invisible), thin fishing line for suspending cable or cords, Marigo VTS Dots (1/8" diam) for electron tubes and capacitors, Flying Saucer (small copper foil), one per window.

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