Milo
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- Melksham, Wilts
Incidently if anyones up for a laugh look at some of the russ andrews stuff. Silly amounts of money for a power lead which does the same thing as a kettle lead.
And the "floating magnetic field effects" sound very impressive. I can't imagine how I've ever managed to listen to music without them.milo said:http://www.furutech.com/news/FI-50(R)-(News) .pdf This is another fine example of hifi foo. I like the use of the buzzword nano. Even better its got carbon in it! I want one for my kettle.
Danny said:Is there a bad science guide to hi-fi?
amnesia said:QED Silver Anniversary gets my vote (assuming they still make/sell it) for an average setup.
I once spent many, many hours trying out different interconnects and speaker cables (albeit on a relatively high-end system of Arcam / KEF gear) and there are detectable differences. I spent ~ 10 to 15% of the cost of the components on my cables and it sounds all the better for it.
Don't listen to the "copper is copper" arguments - for some reason (and I don't know why), different cables do sound different, although physics says that they shouldn't.
THAT SAID... for a mini system even 50p/metre of multistrand cable is going to be better than the bell-wire the system comes with.
Crackly warm vinyl sounds wonderful, but you can't listen to it on the bus, or squish it into a machine the size of a raisin. And unless your MP3s are encoded at such a low rate that it sounds as though the band's playing woollen instruments in a water tank, and provided you're listening to some halfway decent music in the first place, your brain quickly cancels out any concerns about "lossiness" and gets on with enjoying the music. I've never quite understood the psychological makeup of the self-professed audiophile – the sort of person who spends £500 on a gold-plated lead and can't listen to a three-minute pop song without instinctively carrying out a painstaking forensic audit of the sound quality. That's not a music fan. That's a noise- processing unit.
milo said:I just got my first turntable today. Dont think I will ever buy another cd again. Bloody great.