The following is the experiences of a customer of mine that is on a Tonequest. Here are excerpts from a series of emails concerning his experiences with Furutech GTX NCF, GTX(G) aand one of my modified Pass & Seymour 5362A receptacles. The P&S is cryogenicallt treated and loaded internall with a noise reduction compound that I have been working on over the last couple of years getting the formula where it is today.
Kinda long, but you can see that we all suffer from the same Audiophilia Nervosa. Enjoy:
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Gold came in Saturday morning. Put it in Furman with P&S. Running turntable out board power supply and SS phono pre on gold 24/7. Only time for one album before I left, it sounded big but everything stepping on each other with fair transparency. Ran it 12 hours then listened late last night, it cleaned up a fair bit. Listing to it now, it smoothed out some from last night, kind of shocked how easy gold is breaking in,( 5 day cook on high) its enjoyable to listed to. This no NCF type break in, that was insane. I did flip outlets to P&S twice tonight. P&S follows the NCF flavor, transparent and faster than gold. Gold has more soul, slower and cloudy, with NCF flavor still in the mix, glad that wasn't lost, at least not yet. Both sound better than furman stock hospital grade outlets, which sound darker. I will let you know when yours arrive safe and installed.
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Hey Dave, swung by house to grab something this morning, checked mail box it was here, installed it before I left. Had to listen one song before I took off. This is dead cold tubes. First 10 seconds instruments locked in there space, no swinging stage like it's been doing, music sounded horrible, cold tubes. I know it sounds crazy but I know my system. Left everything on. The NCF transformed my system to something it never could do before, being so transparent , but felt it was slightly artificial and didn't truly enjoy listening to music since I bought it, but didn't want to pull it and lose all the new information, just try to fix the problem, crazy hobby. I listened to 3 albums tonight, don't understand why your and gold outlets sound fairly broken in, both are listenable. I told myself I would be honest if your outlet did not best gold, but in a nice way. Your outlet tonight had instruments solid in there spot, it sounded big but controlled, toms were tuneful, you could hear the pitch the drummer was going for when he tuned his drum. The gold catches the nice warm tone of the drum but didn't capture the note or true natural pitch of a good quality drum like yours did, if that makes sense. Im just guessing here, if your outlet was neutral I would still have NCF shouting at me on some recordings passing through your outlet. That not the case, your outlet is super transparent just like NCF but very natural, not hi if sounding like NCF. Maybe yours is slight warm side of neutral. After listening to your outlet I realize with gold I am losing detail, but it's probably to early to determine and didn't want to switch to gold things were sounding to good. I can't help but wonder what your outlet would sound like in the wall going up against NCF. Is NCF making your outlet do this or can your outlet do this on its own (NCF couldn't fix stage yours did). Whatever is going on your outlet made me want to keep listening to music again tonight. I didn't think I would notice this first night. I'll give it 4 or 5 days and check back in...
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(I) spent some time this weekend with your outlet. I find the gold broke in a fair amount and yours can't tell if it changed much, maybe a little smoother. I prefer yours to the gold. I find it has a way to make instruments jump out of speakers and startle me a times, which makes things fun. In my system it's a perfect match with NCF. Very detailed, no recessed information like gold. I find it's fast, detailed, smooth and musical which is hard thing to balance in any one component or outlet. With digital on most recordings I prefer yours. Both outlets are enjoyable with cd but different. With vinyl your outlet is the only way to go with my set up, no question about it. Maybe gold needs more time. I'm still running both 24/7. What does ping pang mean, I sure appreciate you sending me your outlet, I will give them more time and report back...
[ping / pang is the difference of SQ that nylon tips vs. all wood drumsticks mye while striking a ride cymbal]
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Your outlet is special, big bass and passes NCF highs which are special on there own with absolutely no loss of anything, none, zero, that's what makes it special, everything is still musical since install, fixed my 3 month problem with NCF...
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I played your outlet last night playing a Kebo cd for back ground music. Just got home turned on system for back ground music to do paper work same Kebo cd was in drawer, this thing has changed over night. Noise floor dropped, today highs are the best this system has ever produced, metal things a crunching, you can hear the peaks a valleys of the metal rubbing up against each other, it's also going lower with a beautiful tone, I'm a tone junkie, I have a Martin D28 and evertime I walk by it I have to hit the big E string just to hear it...
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And so it goes. This is during the last 10 days. There is still a bit of juicy goodness to come, but it is mostly "there". The last change is the settling in of the goo. It takes about 10 days to get ... uhm... aligned - for the want of a better word. Characteristics of the materials involved.
The receptacle is the P.I. P&S 5362A Mod C Price is $80.00 each with shipping of $8.00 that covers up to 4 receptacles
My thanks to P. C. for being a great reviewer of my insanity