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What High End AC Cables should Offer

90 degree plugs. 

90 Degree plugs are the answer to many problems with excessively large and heavy cables. 

Here's a 90 degree plug from Leviton as an example.  I'm not saying that you should hack your $3,000 Furutech cable, but that we should start asking manufacturers to offer 90 degree plug options.  Not only do they make it less likely to leverage a plug out of the socket (i.e. sag) but also huge space savers.   I can put my bass traps right up against one of these, no problem.  Can't do it at all with even a modest straight angle plug.

erik_squires
erik_squires OP
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@audphile1 - Au contraire!

The plug can be rotated in 360 degrees so you can pick a convenient exit direction.  If you use a 45 degree angle on the exit, so it points neither straight up or straight down, leaving room for 2.

Next, I speak from experience when I say I can put the bass trap right up to the wall with this. First, the bass trap side is soft, second there is about a 1/2" thick baseboard along the floor, which is as tight as I can put the bass trap.

Lastly, moving an outlet isn’t all that easy, quick or cheap to do. It’s not at all the same.

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audphile1
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I think you’re describing a DIY scenario with ability to change plug orientation to whatever angle you need. Which is fine. But I thought you were referring to the already manufactured cable with the 90 degree plug. In that case it won’t be adjustable. In addition, some bass traps, especially the corner tri traps, have a frame and they’re not soft. It’s a solvable problem and you can solve it whatever way you want. 

erik_squires OP
17,544 posts
 

@audphile1

 

I’m saying that manufacturers should offer 90 degree plugs with the cables at 45 degree angles, like many surge protectors have already.

I have 2 types of bass traps from GIK and both have soft sides, but you are right, not all will work, but having 1" away from the wall is better than 5". Even if not discussing a bass trap, the 90 degrees gives us back a lot of floor space, such as behind a speaker or rack.

The point was not that a 90 degree plug solves a bass trap problem, explicitly, I just used it to illustrate the benefits to floor space.

allanblissett
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This is one of the main reasons I built my own cables. I use 90 degree plugs on most. I have been using those cheap ones for years and always wondered why there wasn’t a better quality 90 degree plug made.

Well, I discovered some audiophile grade ones a few months ago on Aliexpress and they are great. Good quality, larger parts and more space inside for the fat cable.

 Have since replaced most of the cheap one.

wish I could post a picture, but Agon doesn’t make it easy.

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