The choice of wall receptacles

Proclaim, I have not had any experience with the Oyaide, but have certainly read a lot of favorable remarks about these receptacles. Unfortunately, there do not seem to be many people who have compared the Oyaide to, say, a cryoed Hubbell 8300H or cryoed Hubbell 5362. The one person that I know of who has both the Oyaide and the cryoed Hubbell 8300H (from Albert Porter) is Audiogon member Maxgain. I believe he just recently acquired the Oyaide and am not even sure whether he has done a "head to head" comparison with the cryoed 8300H, but it may be worth doing a member search here for him and e-mailing him with a few questions. He tends not to post much here anymore, but I'm sure he'd be happy to give you his impressions and some valuable info. If you are using stock receptacles, I would be pretty shocked if you would not receive a pretty decent performance boost with the Oyaide and certainly believe strongly, from experience that you'd definitely get a performance boost from either the Takefive's or Alberts 8300H units as well.

One thing that I would suggest to you, particularly if you are buying new cryoed outlets is to make sure they are fully burned in before inserting them into your system. As difficult as this is to do (being anxious to get them into your system right away when you buy them to enjoy them), I'd recommend installing them on a fridge or chest freezer (if you've got both those items and you've got two receptacles, you're all set!) for between 4 & 6 weeks, switching the plug from the fridge/freezer about half way through this burn in period from one half of the receptacle to the other. The high current draw from the compressor kicking in on these items will give you a much more effective burn in than any you can create running just your system on these receptacles and it will allow you to hear them at their best when you then slot them into your system. All receptacles (IMO) require burn in, and cryoed units can be particularly strident in the burn in period, although they may well be better sounding in some areas than those you've replaced.

The outlet offered by Take Five audio is not exactly the same model as mine, nor has it been deep cryo treated at NASA, like the Porter Port.

Please note this on their web site too:

Duties, taxes, brokerage, and all other fees levied by the destination country or carrier are the sole responsibility of the purchaser/receiver. We will not submit false customs documents, please do not ask.

This item comes from Canada and prompt shipping to USA is quoted at $16.75. Duty charges may or may not apply and unknown if US Customs would hold the item.

Shipping for Porter Port is via FedEx and each buyer gets a track number. I charge $6.75 for up to 3 outlets with insurance and home delivery (if needed).

Bottom line, about $4.00 difference.

I will say, if an Audiogon member lives in Canada the Take Five offer would be excellent. No customs hassles and much less delivery charge than getting from me (here in the USA).

If you're going to upgrade the circuits, where will you stop?
Not being funny, but really, what about the line out side and the BIG line all the way to the local utility? Those are the lines that pick up a vast majority of "noise" that poorly designed components can not filter out. Also,
I would imagine if you had to use some type of power conditioner, your equipment could be lacking in engineering talent expertise in the power supply design.

I think money could be better spent elsewhere for a better return on your dollar.

200.00 on a outlet is grossly overpriced. What can make it worth that kinf of money?

Pass and Seymour make very good Industrial outlets, have out preformed hubbels in my system.

Albert: The Takefive outlet is EXACTLY the SAME as yours, the slimline 8300H with non-plated contacts, and anyone can special order it at any Hubbell distributor. I perhaps should have made it clear that it is not cryoed at NASA, which was why I pointed out in my post that (again, IMO) I could not hear differences in the cryo applied on the World Power receptacle (Cryogenics International which has a very good reputation) or the ACME treated Hubbell 5362 I own relative to the cryo done by Bayson Heat treating for the Takefive outlet.

There will be no taxes or duties on 2 receptacles shipped Expresspost from Canada to the U.S. Other countries I can't comment on. Two receptacles from Takefive shipped = $58.65 Cnd. At current exchange rates that's about $51 U.S. Two from you = $78.95. A $28 or 35% difference. That's a far cry from $6. At 3 receptacles, the price differential jumps to about $45.