£3350 for a mains cable?

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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.
 
If you have so much money you can countenance spending £3350 on a mains cable, buy a £35 cable if you must and give the rest to Oxfam.
 
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.

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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.
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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.
 
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
 
Hi guys

I remember seeing a cable advertised once for over 10K (I think it was a Nordost) and to be honest with you 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.

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.

Nei
 
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...!
 
TOP TIP

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

A. Person, Fulchester

<then, a bit further down the page>

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!
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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.
 
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.
 
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