Quality of outlet not directly powering equipment important?


My new room that I have dedicated to music Has 5 outlets. They are all daisy chained around the perimeter of the room. They share nothing else on the circuit.  From left to right of the room, the power goes from 1-5.   The system is powered by outlet 4, which is an SR black.  The house was built with very poor outlets, the kind that literaly bite down on the wire using a hole for insertion and a quick release tab, not even screw down terminals.  

Upon seeing these POS outlets, which are in my "chain", I replaced outlets 1-3 with my collection of audiophile grade outlets. 1, with a wattgate 381 silver cryo, 2, with a teslaplex SE, And  3 with a furutech gtx-d (r).  I did this to at least have high quality links for the Romex to feed the SR BLACK (4).   I would assume that even with this "mix" of outlets in the chain, they must certainly be better than the absolute garbage outlets that were links in my electrical circuit.  I would imagine less voltage drop at the very least.
 
Now, outlet 5 remains a contractor POS outlet. Its technically past the system, but being that this AC, and not DC, wouldn't it technically also be part of the AC chain feeding the stereo? Would it behoove me to change that one out even though it's past the stereo and not before the stereo?
audiolover718

Al's reply is well written with clarity and knowledge that has become par for the course and is admired on this forum.


billbartuska,

 excellent brevity with its implied wisdom and logic.

Charles

@audiolover718:

Did you notice any difference after replacing outlets 1-3, or did you do any before/after comparisons?  Not trolling...I'm genuinely interested as I have a similar wiring configuration.  Using a Furu GTX-D(R) for the outlet powering the system, but haven't gotten around to doing anything with the other outlets on the circuit. Thanks!
All circuits, audio and non audio, are connected. This is why it’s important to clean all outlet contacts everywhere in the house. You know, since noise is additive and cumulative, whatever. Dirty contacts and/or loose contacts produce micro arcing, and micro arcing produces noise. Wall outlet covers I sell are intended for all audio and non-audio outlets in the room - even UNUSED outlets - but for an entirely different reason, obviously.

If you remove receptacle 1, are the rest of the outlets still powered? If so, then the receptacles are pig tailed and the first three are not in the chain to the equipment outlet or to each other. They are bypassed by wire nut connections. So if you remove, replace or leave alone #5 it would have no effect on the circuit..
Gs5556,

If I unplug outlet one and just have the wires not connected to anything, yet live, the other outlets do not power up. 

 Bcowen, 

I did not do a before and after comparison.  I automatically just did it once I saw the garbage in the wall, and unplugged outlet 1 to see if power to the other outlets would be cut.  Sure enough, they were.