Any one try the new Synergistic Research BLUE UEF Duplex receptacle?

@elizabeth

I completely agree. I wish I didn’t believe in break in and/or could not tell the difference. It sometimes goes through many changes - better, worse, then better again, etc. I wish it was placebo. It’s easy to blame it on placebo when one does not believe in break in or cannot tell the difference. Not much more to say - neither side will convince the other.

Dave

I sprung for a $19 Pangea outlet recently (my bedside Schiit Magni 3 headphone amp has what seems like a 14 lb power supply) as it was cheaper than the PS Audio ones I'd previously installed elsewhere...I'm mostly interested jn the grippy-ness of these things (and they're both simply a more substantial design than the crappy el cheapo standard ones), and the Pangea is certainly grippy...well done. The PS Audio outlets took 4 minutes to break-in (actually one was 4 minutes, the other one was closer to 18 seconds), and the Pangea sadly never broke-in at all, but does convey electricity from the wall cable to anything plugged into it which is all I ask of it...that and the grippy part.

thezaks

It’s easy to blame it on placebo when one does not believe in break in or cannot tell the difference.

Exactly. And the irony is that the reasoning that leads to the claim of placebo effect may in fact itself be the result of placebo effect.

@wolf_garcia
That’s funny - amazing break in times :-)
Dave

What I would want to know, if I was in the market for changing out wall outlets in order to change the tonal balance of my audio system, is what is the science behind ANY of the claims made by SR? From what I can see on the SR website as regards these outlets, bald statements are made describing the "sound" that your system will have, with absolutely no rationale to support any of the claims, no scientifically plausible "mechanism".  I am not categorically against tweaks.  I do believe that power cords, interconnects, speaker cables and other more surprising elements of an audio system can affect sound, but if I am going to spend $200 on a wall outlet (or a similar amount on a fuse), I need to know more.  (Of course, with the fuses, we are told there is some sort of quantum effect; that makes me feel a whole lot better....not.)  I have no axe to grind.  Tell me what point I am missing. If it's merely that the buyer installs the wall outlet and then hears a difference, that's not good science. The observer is a reader of internet threads like this one, which creates a certain expectation of the results, and he or she has paid good money for the new part; the bias is built in. (And by the way, there is some danger associated with amateur electricians messing with wall outlets.)