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I have only very recently started looking into mains cable upgrades.  I firmly believe better speaker cables and interconnects give you better sound and vision so it follows better mains cables should do the same.  

It also makes sense to me that products should be matched.

I wouldn't buy a £10 cable if i had a £5000 amp.  Neither would I buy a £500 cable if I had a £400 amp.

Russ Andrews have a mains cable for sale for £3350! 

So...what kind of system would I need to benefit from a mains cable costing over £3k (My Pioneer KRP-600A didn't cost much more than that!)?

http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1549&customer_id=PAA1843081809326PSQGZOIRGKCTDSXO

Looking to upgrade already Dave!

These cables really are the icing on the cake. If you have a top end system - say £30k for example - the next jump in speakers may be a huge size jump or price jump. Likewise to move up in amplification or source the price difference for a major gain can be very large. In these systems cables and mains upgrades can appear good value.

It is the same in your system, you have it all balanced and a change of one element to the next step may not be hugely worthwhile whereas a mains cable might just polish it up.

LOL. No, not really Nick.  I'm really happy with the system thanks very much.

I realise without spending huge amounts of money on a new amp or speakers I'm not going to see any significant improvement.

I'm a b****r though.  I'm always on the look out for the next thing that may gain that extra 2% performance upgrade.  Obviously the £3k cable was just silly.  But I am contemplating cheaper mains cables options which may improve things slightly.

By the way the sub is running in nicely. There is a scene in casino royale where an aeroplane is landing and has to pull up quickly.  The bass coming from the sub was awesome.  My mrs and me just looked at each other and both went "bloody hell".

barnsleydave:

By the way the sub is running in nicely. There is a scene in casino royale where an aeroplane is landing and has to pull up quickly.  The bass coming from the sub was awesome.  My mrs and me just looked at each other and both went "bloody hell".

Alright for some, my missus just looks at me and says "turn it down" and I don't even have a sub!

Reminds me of these top tips from Viz. There are some corkers but probably not appropriate for this forum.

MEN: When listening to your favourite CD, simply turn up the sound to the volume you desire; then turn it down three notches. This will save your wife from having to do it 

DON'T waste money on expensive iPods. Simply think of your favourite tune and hum it. If you want to "switch tracks", simply think of another song you like and hum that instead

CINEMA GOERS: Please have consideration for pirate DVD viewers by having a wee before the film starts

RAPPERS: Avoid having to say 'know what I'm sayin' all the time by actually speaking clearly in the first place

favorite top tip from viz

Don't waste money on expensive binoculars.  Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.

barnsleydave:

favorite top tip from viz

Don't waste money on expensive binoculars.  Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.

If somebody earns 100K in month, that will looks very, very strange if hi will by a cable for 35 pounds. I am almost sure that only reason because there is so different prices for so similar products is a differences in people’s income.

£8k for a cable?

Excuse me love but I've just added £24k on to the mortgage as I have just bought 3 cables.  Oh and we cant afford to go on those annual carribean holidays for another six years

On the plus side the telly looks better.

barnsleydave:

I have only very recently started looking into mains cable upgrades.  I firmly believe better speaker cables and interconnects give you better sound and vision so it follows better mains cables should do the same.  

It also makes sense to me that products should be matched.

I wouldn't buy a £10 cable if i had a £5000 amp.  Neither would I buy a £500 cable if I had a £400 amp.

Russ Andrews have a mains cable for sale for £3350! 

So...what kind of system would I need to benefit from a mains cable costing over £3k (My Pioneer KRP-600A didn't cost much more than that!)?

http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1549&customer_id=PAA1843081809326PSQGZOIRGKCTDSXO

Some braided cables will certainly be of benefit to the Pioneer (Around 60 quid or so). Russ Andrews do make them but you could get some 16 core off ebay for far less (I use them). Braided cables reduce RFI which armoured cables do not

baldemort:

Anybody paying over three grand for a mains cable needs help.

Thats the kind of help I wish I needed, help on what to spend £3000 of my vast fortune on! These cables are aimed at the same people who drive £100,000 plus cars, sail £500,000 yachts and live in £1 million plus houses.

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viz top tip remembered:

make people think you are a city high flyer by leaving your house at 5am every morning

and coming home at midnight roaring drunk every single day untill dropping down dead aged 42