hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ?

I tried plugging a physics book into a hospital-grade receptacle, but it made every album I played sound like "Irvrobinson's Greatest Hits."

Albertporter...When the dog barks the guy hears something else, because he wants to. He is happy. So am I with my dog who doesn't need human speach to communicate.

Let's move on :-)

HUBBELL model 8300IH is the non-plated, brass alloy, 20-amp Hubbell hospital grade receptacle, for those who may still care.
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Darrylhifi

Has anyone ever actually listened to a high end system in a hospital ? Those long marble halls must have great acoustics.

Your right about the marble halls Darryl.

Unknown to many folks, the song made famous by Elvis Presley "Hound Dog" was recorded at Graceland Nursing Center in Memphis while doing a benefit gig for the old folks.

The halls provided the desired amount of echo and is evidence of the first crying and talking dog .

You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Cryin’ all the time.
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Cryin’ all the time.
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit
And you ain’t no friend of mine.

When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
You ain’t never caught a rabbit
And you ain’t no friend of mine.

Elvis may have passed on, but the truth about talking dogs and excellence of aftermarket power cords lives on (unless you unplug them and set a Physics book on top of them).

This "hobby" of ours can certainly be mysterious. I still remember the first set of speaker cables I tried to replace my zip cord. I was skeptical! Both were the same guage, which I thought was the MOST important thing but the comparison between the two cables was NO CONTEST. I bought the better cables.
A few years later I was interested in an upsampler for my DAC. "Jitter" was the buzzword at the time and lower was considered better. Audio Alchemy had just come out with the DTI-PRO (not the Pro32). I worked at an AV store at the time and when one was shipped to us I begged to take it home and try it out in my system. They let me and I fell in love with what it did for the sound. I remember many a "spec" person later telling me I had to be smoking crack in preferring the sound with the DTI-PRO in the chain because of the HUGE amount of jitter it flooded to the DAC. While I understood the argument, I didn't experience the "negative" impact on the sound others believed I should hear. I though it was a huge improvement!
A couple of years ago I posted (or added to one) that I swore my system sounds better in the winter than the summer! Is it less humidity in the air (I'm inside)? Is there less power being consumed and that is somehow effecting the power to my house? Good eggnog?
There will always be those who want to know why things are and those that appereciate what is. They are not mutually exclusive but too often the emphasis is placed on one or the other. The last "poll" of the american public showed more than 80% of the population believed in God. Not bad considering God can't be "measured".

Tony