What High End AC Cables should Offer
90 degree plugs.
90 Degree plugs are the answer to many problems with excessively large and heavy cables.
Here's a 90 degree plug from Leviton as an example. I'm not saying that you should hack your $3,000 Furutech cable, but that we should start asking manufacturers to offer 90 degree plug options. Not only do they make it less likely to leverage a plug out of the socket (i.e. sag) but also huge space savers. I can put my bass traps right up against one of these, no problem. Can't do it at all with even a modest straight angle plug.
This is one of the main reasons I built my own cables. I use 90 degree plugs on most. I have been using those cheap ones for years and always wondered why there wasn’t a better quality 90 degree plug made. Well, I discovered some audiophile grade ones a few months ago on Aliexpress and they are great. Good quality, larger parts and more space inside for the fat cable. Have since replaced most of the cheap one. wish I could post a picture, but Agon doesn’t make it easy. |
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The ones I bought from Aliexpress is supposedly a Furutech knock of. At least it says Furutech on it, rhodium plated copper. They will take any size cable. The only issue I had with them, is that the ground blade is about 1/8 inch too long, and that makes it more difficult, if not impossible to fully plug in to a receptacle. My handy moto tool took care of that on all of them. |
@carlsbad2 Sorry to hear it, but I really can see why. I mean, no where but in Audiophile land do we see such outrageous insulation used. The place I use the Leviton however was on the end of a captive cable going to a Furman voltage regulator. Two other conditioners feed off that. |
@allanblissett I try to avoid rhodium. I find it too hard and too low conductivity to offer the best connection. The hardness means it tends to stay slick instead of grip. |
