Rhodium vs Gold AC connectors

Tbg said

I am a reviewer, but it is still only my opinions in my reviews.

Fair enough. Well said, Tbg.

@Michaelzay, I was wondering when you were going to chime in. Yes, you can achieve good system synergy at any budget level. Your main system is a good, well balanced system and would enable you to properly evaluate any changes such as a change in wpo. It's not a matter of having the most expensive system. This is not a pissing match about whose system is best! But I put it to Audiolabyrinth that plugging $45k retail worth of cables into a pair of vintage JBL's worth $695 today & a budget Chinese cd player is a/ lunacy and b/ would not allow him to accurately evaluate the differences between the Furutech GTX-D(R) and GTX-D(G).

I am not contesting the differences he claims he heard in his system (although Keith has solid form wildly exaggerating the facts, and in fact has been caught out posting disparaging remarks about the US Ayon Distributor and his Ayon CD-2s after he blew up his player by leaving it on during an electrical storm). I am simply suggesting he should not make generalisations about the difference between the GTX-D(R) and GTX-D(G) as his system is not capable of accurately conveying how close in performance these outlets are. It is not resolving enough nor neutral enough to do that. And if Keith thinks otherwise, so be it as you like to say.

As to your comment your modest second system beats out $80k+ systems at audio shows. So? Audio shows are notoriously problematic and tricky to achieve good sound for various reasons which should be obvious to anyone who regularly visits shows.

I don't understand your peculiar comment regarding unscrupulous manufacturers. Are you trying to suggest the majority of high end manufacturers struggle to make ends meet, shut down then re-open under new names, then pay off low level reviewers to write dishonest reviews?

I have never owned an Ayon cd-s2 cd-player that blew up in any electrical storm ever!, I had one of these units that blew up by way of unreliabilty within less than 90 days, the unit had infant tube failure which in turn blew out the power supply board, the dealer wanted to charge me $300.00 to fix it, the unit was under warranty, so I got a full refund for what I paid for the unit brand new from the dealer, this is the las time I need to tell you that, I have said this to you 20 times over the last year and a half, and as far as my system goes, it is one of the most musical transparent systems I ever listened to any where, my system is so transparent, I gurantee you, I can litterally move my cables around and hear a significant change in sound!, much less different outlets, and again for the last time, my speakers are NOT some $695.00 speakers!, I have alot of money tied up into these speakers, you need to stop tring to discredit me!, you are wrong with your claims, they do not exsist!

I agree with you michaelzay, the topic of this thread is connectors and outlets, I do not desire to be the topic, there is no reason for it, I have heard a substantial difference between the furutech GTX-D Gold and Rhodium on my system with many other family members, to tell me that is impossible is right out odd and strange!, you are the one who has no merit here about the difference of these two outlets, you have NEVER auditioned the two for weeks in your system, I have!

Ooops Audiolab, I forgot those speaker binding posts and replacement caps you bought, ok i'll be generous and say $1500 used then. Well that's an interesting story about your Ayon player. My comments were based on a first hand account of you telling another member your player blew up in an electrical storm after you left it on. Kind of embarassing. I think I would change my story as well if that happened to me. But to stick the US Distributor with the tab for your own carelessness was not cool.

Re your comment "I do not desire to be the topic", lol! You are a walking self-promoting topic!

As for your comments accusing me of being a hypocrit for having not a-b compared the GTX-D(R) and GTX-D(G) in my system, you have completely missed my point. You should not be making broud generalizations about the differences between the GTX-D (G) & (R) outlets when your system is not capable of acccurately assessing those differences. I don't care how much you talk up your JBL's and Vincent cd player/preamp. And, I might add, you are not capable of objectively and rationally conveying any differences you hear. You proclaim what your latest flavour of the month as "the best there is", and talk down the 'loser' like it is a model down. I mean your commentary defies physics, but nothing changes there.

As for my system. I have a much higher fidelity system than yours and you know that. It is also more neutral and able to accurately convey the difference between cables and wpo's. It's not about whether or not I have a-b compared the outlets in my system. But if I did, I could accurately describe the differences between the outlets which I would venture to suggest would be a much greater value than your misleading comments.