Any one try the new Synergistic Research BLUE UEF Duplex receptacle?

elizabeth
5,197 posts                                                                   08-24-2018 9:33am

Speaking of duplex screws.. Anyone else notice if using stranded wire to the Duplex wire straight in, not to a lug, it will always loosen up after install. 100% gets looser and needs to be retightened after a month or so. Solid core not so much. Just sayin’.

Best practices for terminating stranded wire to an electrical receptacle outlet is to use a receptacle with a terminal plate to hold the stranded wire in place.

When using solid wire the wire should be curled around the terminal screw in a clockwise motion. This type of wire termination will give the best solid termination of the solid wire to the terminal screw and the receptacle.

Though the receptacle is Listed to use the wire terminal plate to terminate both stranded as well as solid wire it does not hold the solid wire tight in place. Just moving the receptacle around after terminating the solid wire so as to install and push the receptacle into the outlet box will loosen the wire connection. I would suggest if you must use the terminal plate for solid wire work the wire and receptacle into place in the wall electrical box. Then pull the receptacle out of the box just enough to expose the side terminal screws and retighten them again.
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@c_avila1

how does the Cardas 4181 compare to the Furutech GTX-D R NCF?

Just installed my Blue duplex and glad I did as the old duplex had very loose wire connections on it, could not have been helping and quite possibly a fire hazard as it was.

Now I have solid wire too and yes it is a bear to get the Blue to tighten down on it securely, I redid it three times before happy but I am definitely going to pull it out and recheck in a month or so too.

Great news with the wall outlet upgrade! I think it will sound even better tomorrow and will finish breaking in two weeks from today.

David Pritchard

I purchased and installed a Synergistic Blue outlet to replace my Oyaide - XXX. The Blue immediately seemed quieter to me (less grain) but right out of the box it’s compressed dynamically and in terms of soundstage. Everything does sound pretty ’organic’ though (I hate that description but that’s all I can come up with).  I’m sure it will get better with break-in time.

What’s the best way to break it in? I have my equipment plugged into a PowerCell 10 UEF which is plugged into the Blue outlet. I hope I don’t need to keep the system running for 14 days to break it in.  Maybe the PowerCell will draw enough to break-in the outlet.  Maybe not...

As far as the cost, yeah it’s not cheap within the context of outlets but in the world of high-end audio it’s not bad. I know people that have $10k amp & preamp and $20k speakers that refuse to pay $150 for an outlet or a fuse. That’s just foolish to me but to each his/her own.