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Post by flateric on Jun 5, 2008 9:36:28 GMT -5
(moved to The Coffee Shop by sumgai, 06/05/08) Wow - great site: Angelsound Audio UK, Really top end stuff. £1400 gets you a mains cable with Palladium in it somewhere, from Cutloose Audio www.angelsoundaudio.co.uk/html/audio_tekne.html£365 for 1.5m of Audio Tekne phono cable Thiink I'll stick with my old kettle lead.
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Post by pete12345 on Jun 5, 2008 11:21:57 GMT -5
How can they justify the £1400 mains lead?? Surely all it's doing is powering the amp, it's not even carrying any signal. Sorry, but I see this sort of thing as something of a scam.
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Post by sumgai on Jun 5, 2008 17:06:30 GMT -5
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Post by flateric on Jun 5, 2008 17:32:50 GMT -5
Marvellous stuff! From the same site:
Isoplane Model No. 18 & Model No. 20 -
Vibration Isolation Platforms
The design goal of this platform is to demolish the harmful effects of external/internal vibration e.g. Earth's cosmic orbital and self rotations, foot steps, structural wind force flexures of high rise building, etc.
I'm gonna remember that cosmic orbital excuse next time I bugger up a chord change live in a Green Day song.
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Post by crazymanandy on Jun 5, 2008 20:16:31 GMT -5
The bloomin' thing costs so much because it's got that there premium quality washer-thingy that keeps the 'lectrons from leaking out onto the floor and upsettin' Gramma, like here: CMA
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Post by ChrisK on Jun 5, 2008 23:46:29 GMT -5
They don't have to. If one fool buys one, it's justified/validated. OFC Oxygen Free Copper (or Con Men).I really like the part about " Ernie: You are right; it does seem to be an audio thing. I checked out some audiophile reviews on the Web, and they say that OFC cryogenic power cables can “restore the texture, dimension, and spatial cues in sound and video that EMI and RFI often obscure” and provide “deeper, blacker backgrounds and a richer tonal balance.” Howard: Let’s look at the facts, not the fantasy. Ordinary 60-Hz power travels miles from the nearest power station over ordinary, oxygen-rich, noncryogenically frozen wires laden with bird poop. It goes through a local distribution transformer (gobs more regular wire in there) and then travels hundreds of feet more through your house wiring to a local outlet. Do you think the last 6 ft of cryogenically altered, helically wound, hand-braided, eight-gauge wire makes any sensible difference? You could probably solder together old, rusty coat hangers and do just as well, provided you don’t have any young children or pets in the house. So what do you really need in a power cable? Insulation is a good idea. Stranding is good, too. Stranded wire is flexible enough to bend many times without breaking. That’s all the technology you need." How much? It's like the joke about the Indian that tried to circumcise himself (ugh, too much).
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Post by lpf3 on Jun 6, 2008 13:23:33 GMT -5
RE: OFC Oxygen Free Copper ( or con men )
Howard states
Wow. I saw on Discovery Channel That some scientists want to use DNA , genetic engineering , and "reverse evolution " to turn birds into dinosaurs .
I don't think those wires have seen the worst yet .
;D ;D lpf3
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