Are you ready for a £7500 kettle lead?

-Ad- · 14 Dec 2008 at 15:53

Nothing new to us cinema and hi-fi bods.

Heard a nordost cable, looked quite gimmicky and my homemade cable sounded no different in the brief listening tests !

Try search for cabl risers that cost a few hundred $ eeach. They lift the cable off the floor and stop the floor affect the cables sound

il take 20

Rebelius · 14 Dec 2008 at 15:57

where can I buy one?

i.e. where's the evidence that they're £7500?

JaffaJedi · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:03

Hifi snakeoil at its best

MikeHunt79 · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:07

Power cable, speaker cable... It's hilarious the amount of people that pay stupid amounts of money for these

Strife212 · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:13

Rebelius said:
where can I buy one?

i.e. where's the evidence that they're £7500?

http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordost ODIN Power Cords.htm

semi-pro waster · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:13

Rebelius said:
where can I buy one?

i.e. where's the evidence that they're £7500?

Post #10, ok it's actually £7,095 inc delivery but that's not too far off the quoted figure.

IcE-ColD · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:15

I bet this guy would buy some.

http://blog.audiovideointeriors.com/208great/

^TANK^ · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:15

Lol and I thought I was a ****

for buying a £80 Chord Silver Plus HDMI cable, dam you what hi fi magazine

.

MikeHunt79 · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:22

^TANK^ said:
Lol and I thought I was a **** for buying a £80 Chord Silver Plus HDMI cable, dam you what hi fi magazine .

That's still £75 too much IMO

Should've spent it on blu-rays instead...

whitecrook · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:22

http://www.usa.denon.com/productdetails/3429.asp

Yes folks it's an ethernet cable for $500 ....

Strife212 · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:25

Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer

Plug it in the right way round

ajgoodfellow · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:36

Vegetarian said:
Power leaves nuclear power station (dirty)

Electriciy travels along many 1000's of miles of crude cableing (getting dirtier)

Electricty enters sub station (very dirty)

Electricty travels to peoples houses picking up whatever interferance is along the way - microwave ovens, mobile phones, radio waves etc in very cheep cables. (filthy)

A £7000 wire makes everything clean again!

I have worked for Rega hifi's in the past and had this convo with one of the bosses and he thought expensive cables were a con as even in hi end hifi's they dont use cables that expensive... no more then £20p/m stuff internally.

Just my thoughts

Good quality cable can stop noise being coupled into or out of the wire. It will not effect any noise currently present in the cable - it'll just keep it there

If you had perfect cabling all the way then, yes, you'll have a cleaner input. This is however pointless as any half decent equipment can isolate the power supply input noise without a problem

oli collett · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:38

Ah, the good old power lead scam.

fyi - i started a thread some time back about high end hi-fi and whether this kind of stuff makes a difference:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17885085

You may not be surprised to hear that it's all a con.

magick · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:40

PsychomIKE said:
Mate, you've got to learn to shop around. It's only £7,095,75 here and that includes free shipping!

semi-pro waster said:
Post #10, ok it's actually £7,095 inc delivery but that's not too far off the quoted figure.

That's mail order prices. I bet if you went to a Hi End dealer with shop premisis you'd pay the full retail price. But who'd seriously buy a £7100 kettle lead by mail order? I mean if you rich and stupid enough to spend that sort of money you'd spend the extra £400 and goto a showroom surely?

Incidently I wonder if you could goto a dealer posing as potential buyer with 3 kettle leads off your PC and ask to compare them and see if they justify the £22,500 premium for 3 needed on a preamp, power amp and DAC.

^TANK^ · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:43

MikeHunt79 said:
That's still £75 too much IMO

Should've spent it on blu-rays instead...

Agreed

.

magick · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:46

IcE-ColD said:
I bet this guy would buy some.

http://blog.audiovideointeriors.com/208great/

My god. Total overkill. He could have a *killer* home cinema for $500k and spend the other 5.5 million on a good yacht, bugati veyron, still have a million left and live the movie lifestyle in real time rather than watching people do it on a screen.

Mark A · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:47

£10,399 for the 2.5m one :eek:

, i think i'd just move the hifi closer to the socket and save myself a few g's tbh

.

Free P&P made me laugh.

MikeHunt79 · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:49

Vegetarian said:
Power leaves nuclear power station (dirty)

Electriciy travels along many 1000's of miles of crude cableing (getting dirtier)

Electricty enters sub station (very dirty)

Electricty travels to peoples houses picking up whatever interferance is along the way - microwave ovens, mobile phones, radio waves etc in very cheep cables. (filthy)

A £7000 wire makes everything clean again!

I have worked for Rega hifi's in the past and had this convo with one of the bosses and he thought expensive cables were a con as even in hi end hifi's they dont use cables that expensive... no more then £20p/m stuff internally.

Lol, missed this. In a power amps everything gets converted to DC anyway, so noise in the power very little or no effect at all!

Energize · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:51

A superconductor would be better, and much cheaper.

aardvark · 14 Dec 2008 at 16:57

i like my hifi but this is just stupid - it doesn't even carry the sound, only the power.