http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old 2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:12:59 -0000, "Pete Cross" wrote:

http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old 2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

They can't even get the basics right. They are claiming a current
rating (OK, they call it a power rating, but we already know they are
clueless) of 60 amps - with a 13 amp mains plug on one end and an IEC
connector on the other. Interestingly they have used the one designed
for kettles, not the equipment one.

d

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Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........


Now I know where I've being going wrong all these years, I should have been
selling 2m IEC leads for almost 2 grand a piece. I could have been enjoying
my own private island in the Caribbean by now, instead of having to put up
with January in England!

David.

"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is what
they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon evident
as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'" ...
"the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do this
unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:53:34 +1100, "keithr"
wrote:


"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is what
they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon evident
as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'" ...
"the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do this
unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.


This wasn't in an April issue, by any chance?

d

--
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:53:34 +1100, "keithr"
wrote:


"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is
what
they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon
evident
as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'"
...
"the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do
this
unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.


This wasn't in an April issue, by any chance?

d

Unfortunately not - October 2006.

I tend to read Hi Fi magazines more for entertainment than for sensible
information
When they review turntables and say that they increase bass or clarity etc,
I wonder
what planet they are from, similarly plugging $4000 interconnects.

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:15:04 +1100, "keithr"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:53:34 +1100, "keithr"
wrote:


"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is
what
they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon
evident
as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'"
...
"the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do
this
unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.


This wasn't in an April issue, by any chance?

d

Unfortunately not - October 2006.

I tend to read Hi Fi magazines more for entertainment than for sensible
information
When they review turntables and say that they increase bass or clarity etc,
I wonder
what planet they are from, similarly plugging $4000 interconnects.


Were it not for occasional great, informative stuff like Jim's
articles I wouldn't bother reading them at all. It strikes me that the
sole function of the editorial material is to support the advertising,
which is the real purpose of the publication.

d

--
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

In article ,
keithr wrote:
I tend to read Hi Fi magazines more for entertainment than for sensible
information When they review turntables and say that they increase bass
or clarity etc, I wonder what planet they are from,

I'm not so sure. A disc with a pickup on it acts rather like a microphone
diaphragm. Under some conditions you can make the thing feedback or
howlround via the speakers. So it follows isolating the turntable/record
combination from external sound fields can have an effect on the overall
sound.

--
*To steal ideas from *one* person is plagiarism; from many, research*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"keithr" wrote in message
...

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:53:34 +1100, "keithr"
wrote:


"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is
what
they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon
evident
as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'"
...
"the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do
this
unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.


This wasn't in an April issue, by any chance?

d

Unfortunately not - October 2006.

I tend to read Hi Fi magazines more for entertainment than for sensible
information
When they review turntables and say that they increase bass or clarity
etc, I wonder
what planet they are from, similarly plugging $4000 interconnects.
I gave up when they tested a group of "high-end" turntables and
criticized the Gyrodek for sounding different according to what
arm/cartridge was fitted....

Geoff MacK

"keithr" wrote in message
...

"Pete Cross" wrote in message ...
http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordos...LA%20Power.htm

Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old
2.5mm
t&e!
They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet.........

--
Pete Cross


Just remember to top it up with the best quality snake oil before use.

Last year "Hi Fi World" did a comparitive test on mains cables, this is
what they said of the most expensive one (480 pounds):

"The outstanding bass extension and tunefulness of the TCI was soon
evident as it had a wonderful ability to reproduce the timbre
and dynamics of the solo piano playing from 'Beethoven Piano Sonatas'"
... "the lead guitar was also stunning, eliminating the
uncomfortable ringing distortions of the 'Free' mains lead."

Perhaps some-one cleverer that I could explain how a mains cable can do
this unless it was compared to a 100 metre coil of bell
wire on an amp with a totally crap power supply.

If the free cable was of reasonably decent construction (no poor connections
etc) then I can see no possible way in which substituting an outrageously
expensive alternative could possibly alter the sound in any way.

How was their "listening test" conducted I wonder? and who got the
backhanders?

David.