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hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ?

What is the difference ? Is it really worth ten times the price to get hospital grade receptacles ? Why ?
Is one brand really superior to another? Is Pass &
Seymore a good brand ? Hubble better ?
I am setting up a closet to house my mid-fi gear and
will be running two dedicated 20A. lines to run the
2-channel audio and the home entertainment equipment. I
will have two double (2 duplex receptacles) on each 20A
circuit.
Thank you in advance.
saki70
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
Nrchy,
You MUST have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night ;)
irvrobinson
295 posts
 
Sorry, Saki70, I was having entirely too much fun. Isolated grounding is highly recommended, if only to make sure that the outlets are indeed grounded properly! You'd be surprised how may homes/apts have screwed up grounding.

One thing to watch for that annoyed a previous spouse... an electrician will install orange outlets for isolated ground circuits, unless you direct him differently. My spouse found the bright orange offensive.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Irvrobinson...How did the orange color affect the sound?
irvrobinson
295 posts
 
The orange color widened the soundstage considerably. The inter-note silences were also deeper and blacker. The only downside was that I noticed some softening of the micro-dynamics, but I only noticed it when using unbalanced interconnects.
sol322
426 posts
 
Eldartford:
I guess there are more colorations in Ivr system sound after the change.

Paradigms preclude progress! Keep an open mind and above all open ears!!!
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