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My brain has been trained to not hear green fuses (posted elsewhere) or cable lifts, or the very audilbe differences between PVS and PTFE as claimed by a nudnick over at AudioAssylum. I can't hear teh difference between an AUDIO GRADE wall device and a standard Leviton residental grade. Since I usally plug not audio grade cords into them which lead to a very high grade audio amp, using all this non audio grade devices to power it up. What good is an audio grade wall outlet, to an audio grade line cord, when it gets SWITCHED with a non audio graded power switch in teh amp or pre amp or CD player!!! So all teh audio goodness ends at the switch? Who is gonna be first to indroduce a magic switch? Which will plug in before the line cord, and you leave teh built in switch always on, and use this audio grade replacement downwind, to switch it all on or off, and of course this will improve it all.
Obviously you're being humorous, Carl, but it should be noted that the finest systems I have ever heard were all owned by people who were fanatically carefull, not only about set-up, but also about choice of cables, tweaks, and other accessories.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Please consider not quoting "Carl" in deference to those explicitly ignoring (i.e. via the Ignore Facility) his posts.
TIA