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Why are there no high end cheater plugs?

Yes, I know there are safety reasons for not using such ground lifting devices; but as many audio magazines have suggested, the benefits from lifting all grounds except the preamp are quite substantial. But the 79 cent cheater plug covers much of the improvement. I made some cheater plugs using silver wire but Eagle plugs. They are better than the grey guys. Why does no one make a quality plug? I understand that at one time Siltech did make such a plug.

Please no "educate" me of the safety reasons for not using cheater plugs. I think the success that our immediate ancestors had in surviving two plug ac, suggest that chassis shorts must be quite rare.
tbg
tvad
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What's involved in making an audiophile cheater plug? Better brass? Silver? Rhodium plating?

I just put some contact paste (choose your favorite) on the blades of the cheater plug and blades of the power cord and let it go.
cytocycle
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if you are going to all that trouble, why not unground the outlet and then the third prong doesn't do anything and you don't have to use a cheater....

PS Audio makes the ground plug removable on some of their power cords.
tvad
9,467 posts
 
06-15-07: Cytocycle
if you are going to all that trouble, why not unground the outlet and then the third prong doesn't do anything and you don't have to use a cheater....
Because for a proper audio grounding scheme, the preamp needs to be grounded while the rest of the components are ungrounded.

Disabling the ground on the outlet would defeat this scheme.
tbg OP
5,263 posts
 
Tvad, I am ahead of you. I have three types of cheaters. Mine with the use of AudioTop on all sound best. The cheap grey ones sound worse. Also, I tried a cheater on a cord that did not have a ground wire. It was far superior with the cheater off.

Cytocycle, I tried to selectively remove the ground wire from one outlet in my IsoClean outlet box. It did not work as all the outlets are grounded together through the chassis. I could not figure out how to isolate all outlets from the solid copper chassis.

I have thought of just hacksawing off the ground pin but that shoots down reselling them.
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