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NeilBrown:

I read all the techno bable and most of it if not all of it made no scientific sense to me, and was exactly that “techno bable” to fool people into wasting there money.

Grrr...!

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When crossing a one-way street, save time by only looking in one direction before stepping into the road.

A. Person, Fulchester

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When crossing a one-way street, always look both ways in order to see the huge lorry reversing back up the street towards you.

A. Person, Fulchester Hospital

My favourite letter went something like this:

"They say going out and drinking alcohol is not big and not clever. Well I work in the Chemistry department of Fulchester University, I'm 6'5", 20 stone and regularly enjoy 15 pints a night" 

Professor Binge-Drinker, University of Fulchester

Unbelieable that people would pay that ludicrous amount of money for what is essentially a well manufactured gang extension plug!!

I paid my spark mate to come re-wire the house for not even a tenth of the price and in his own words, "it's not the plug it's the power that supplies it that makes the difference!" Who am i to know or say, but even if i owned the local Odeon, i would never think of spending or justifying that kind of money for what is essentially a plug! I know for a fact not even Odeon spend that kind of money lol

 Each to their own and all that, it's their money, but really £3350????

That's just silly! And i've been an avid reader for years, but i've wised up big time. Blame Amazon, my £3 HDMI cable emabarrased my £30 one i'd stupidly bought in the VFM stakes.

Put the money towards better AV equipment instead!  that's what i did

The cables look interesting. My mate who works building death machines for the military swears by twisting/weaving cables to prevent interference. The rest is down to ensuring a good secure connection between cable and plug/connector and then plug/connector into socket.

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idc:

My mate who works building death machines for the military swears by twisting/weaving cables to prevent interference. The rest is down to ensuring a good secure connection between cable and plug/connector and then plug/connector into socket.

Especially for wiring up those pesky Krytrons to foil slappers. Don't want the local taxi radio or pirate Reggae station setting those off! 

One thing to note about the Russ Andrews products is that I think they are designed to take advantage of the upgrade path they offer. So if you buy a £50 cable now and upgrade it within a year (I think) then you get 100% back against the next cable .... hence you end up one £100 cable, for example, rather than a £50 cable redundant and then buying a £100 when you can afford it.

This meant I could work up the path, yet only in smaller increments when funds allowed. Easier to spend £50 now and £100 in 10-11 months, than £150 now as it were .....

I am soon to try one of their silver cables on my CD I hope, when I upgrade a few items in the near future, though not the Silver Signature you mention. I guess it comes down to whether it's 'cheaper' to buy a cable such as that, or upgrade the CD player to a better model - and money spent on which item gives the better improvement..... remembering that once you have the cable it will improve any new CD/AMP etc you use it on and doesn't 'wear-out' like other items.

NeilBrown:

That said, after doing quite a bit of research, I came across this company that have a design section on their site that just made sense.  Their cables seam very reasonably priced so I took a punt and was amazed.  I've since bought several more from them including a Fig8 and a Wattgate upgrade.

Neil

Sorry Neil - four posts and every one promoting the same cable company. Looks like advertising to us. Banned.

3350£ for a mains cabe wouldn't be wise even if your rich.

For much less you can have your electricity sorted and transformed and balanced without any distortions.

Other mains cables would make little difference then.

One rich fool alays there to buy these, then they HAVE to sound better in order to justify the mistake!

I use medical cable which is probably also used elswhere.  Nothing fancy, but a well screened mains cable I discovered when using and servicing ECG & EEG equipment many years ago.  The addition of a few ferrite rings and beads sorts out many problems.  One factor is earthing and determining as to which end to earth the screen as that is random and does indeed make a large difference.  Well, here is another hornets nest I have dropped myself into...

But i stay with my opinion and observation that the wireworld main cables do make a difference.

In the following weeks i will receive my balanced line transformer from SACThailand.

I will post back if the wireworlds or transformers do make a difference then.

I tested the transformer and it was indeed a good choice to buy one!

Music became more easy and listenable without any loss of dynamics like some mains conditioners, i was sucked up in the music more easely and details came through much better and effortless.

I now want to measure my mains noise before and after the transformer to see how much noise i actually eliminated. If this transformer works efficient i should have no mains noise.