hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ?

Saki70... orange is the industry standard color to signify isolated ground circuits, but outlets with isolated ground construction (phase, neutral, case ground, conduit ground) can be acquired in many colors. You only really need orange for something like an electronics lab, where some test equipment needs a very clean ground (for voltage reference purposes, perhaps) and you don't want to accidentally use a conventional circuit. You might get inconsistent results.

For dedicated audio circuits isolated grounds are sort of like belt and suspenders, if you know what I mean. In many cases you won't hear the difference. When you're installing new circuits it's not that much more expensive, and you just might get lower noise. So why not? When I did mine I didn't think twice about it (though I had to get ivory isolated ground outlets special ordered, so we lived with orange for a couple of weeks).

Tubegroover, I was only joking in my "orange improved the soundstaging" post. I was making fun of the "inter-note silences" and "microdynamics" bs I read in so many high-end reviews.

As for Albert Porter... yes, I am saying that you've all been duped by (at best) a placebo effect, at least with regards to differences between properly functioning power cords, outlets, and cryogenic treatments of such devices. I've been a fool often enough myself that I'm certainly not prone to tagging someone else with that designation. Nonetheless, since cryogenic treatment does not materially affect the resistance or capacitance of a power cord or an outlet, how does the treatment affect power transfer? The answer is that it doesn't. A $50 multimeter from Sears will show this.

The issue in this thread is that some people have been asserting that there are differences between power cords and outlets because they claim to hear them. And there are other people, like me, that are asserting that any differences you hear are likely due to your imagination because there are no measurable differences in the signal conducted. So it does come down to dueling assertions. I believe mine has much more standing because 1. listening tests not under double-blind conditions are proven to be scientifically invalid, and 2. 120v/60Hz electrical signals are easily measured and characterized by inexpensive testing equipment, and these measurements reveal NO differences at all. I actually give more credibility to UFO abduction stories than I do to audible differences between power cables (and I don't give UFO stories much credibility either).

Hmmm, no wonder why when I had my friend who is an electrician {but non audiophile} intalling lines in my audio room , I had a Wattgate , PS Audio, and a Tice outlet, he seemed {by the look on his face} most impressed with the Tice , which is orange.

Irvrobinson: Would you be so kind as to tell us what power cords and outlets you have had cryogenically treated and how they measured before and after the treatment? I'm simply asking because all of the cabling/outlets I've had treated measured differently with reduced resistance following treatment. Perhaps you could tell us what you've had cryoed, where, the type of treatment and how it measured before and after?

Darrylhifi, the answer is, your electrician is not mentally restricted by a degree in Physics. He is able to consider the fact that something that cannot be measured can be heard.

Irvrobinson, as for me being "duped" by comparisons, it must be a ten year hallucination and affecting tens of dozens of people who visit here. I am truly frustrated by your ignorance.