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Just thinking that 40 - 45 years ago a 'hifi' would have been a turntable an amp or receiver and speakers. (Two or three mains. One or two ICs and some speaker cable.)

30 - 35 years ago, one would have had a music-centre (one mains and speaker wire) or a 'rack' system. More interconnects, but all very short and flexible and hidden away tidily unlike the inflexible 'hosepipes' that pass for cables today. (Some of these audiophile mains cables would not look out of place at a U2 gig or under the floor of a computer megaplex!)

They probably all assumed that by 2009 wires/cables would pretty much be obsolete or one computer style 'Bus' cable would do the lot.

Seems the average person here has more system cabling than an entire 1970s home required for all of it's electrical goods put together.

Even a TV back then only needed a coax and a mains lead. Now it needs SCART/HDMI/Coax/Optical/mains and probably RCA as well. The space saved by flat screens has almost been absorbed by cables! (And nowhere to rest a nice 1970s rubber-plant.)

Seems that only devices like ADM9s with wireless streaming or something like an Arcam Solo or naimuniti are able to get us back to the cable count of most of the 1960s/70s hifi's or even 1950s radiograms!

(Why does anything 'wireless' require lots of wires to fulfill it's wireless-ness?)

idc:

fast eddie:

life must be really dull today!

Having tried to be deep and meaningful over the past couple of weekends, but it all went horribly wrong (arguments, misunderstandings, threads locked, you know the kind of thing), this weekend is simple and noncontroversial. Anyway real men like lists and seeing who has the longest..............

I was going to post something along the lines of mine are 23ft long.....I suspect its more macho to have lots of cables than fewer, and this has always intrigiued me as  major differentiator between gadgets - some are bigger is better (TV's, cars are two examples that spring to mind), whereas others the opposite is true such as PC's, phones etc 

chebby:

Joel is still counting.

LOL, yes this is like an election result and Joel is Argyll & Bute, 'we expect their return sometime tomorrow'!

Tarquinh:

Is there nothing on TV?

This is actually a sneaky survey for Russ Andrews so as to get a better idea of what stock to buy in. So I will put you down for one ......... small one  .