Chord Ethernet Cables

Columbo · 27 Mar 2014 at 12:26

oli collett said:
This made me laugh:
http://www.whathifi.com/blog/the-great-cable-debate-–-crossed-wires

I think everyone realises that What Hi-Fi is nothing more than a place for pushing any old hi-fi product but it's still amusing reading them try to justify it.

That really is embarrassing.

Regardless of how WHF receive their funding how low must their editorial standards be to allow that utter gash out into the public domain.

HEADRAT · 27 Mar 2014 at 16:09

tom_nieto said:
Will this make my internetz faster?

Yes, yes it will. it will also make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

badcompany · 27 Mar 2014 at 16:28

Tuned ARAY streaming cables

oh my I just got to have it.

Westyfield2 · 27 Mar 2014 at 16:34

Any manufacturer that starts selling this rubbish, or any magazine that endorses it, instantly goes down in my book. No matter whether they then go on to make some great products, I still remember them for pedalling overpriced rubbish.

bemaniac · 28 Mar 2014 at 13:35

Chord make some nice lower priced interconnects. In my opinion you need no more than their bottom of the range shielded phonos the crimson+ for £40 a meter. Suctions onto phono inputs very strongly compared to other cables and is a well shielded build which got rid of hum from my turntables rubbish phono leads which werent even shielded so my room lighting made it hum.

oli collett · 28 Mar 2014 at 18:11

bemaniac said:
Chord make some nice lower priced interconnects. In my opinion you need no more than their bottom of the range shielded phonos the crimson+ for £40 a meter. Suctions onto phono inputs very strongly compared to other cables and is a well shielded build which got rid of hum from my turntables rubbish phono leads which werent even shielded so my room lighting made it hum.

A 'lower priced' interconnect at £40/m kinda sums up a lot of what is wrong with the hi-fi industry. You don't need to spend £40 to get a well shielded interconnect.

Back at the what hi-fi blog, the post has now been updated and includes this gem:

BretM brought up the subject of hard disks, and whether they could make a difference. In my opinion I see no reason as to why there couldn't be differences between NAS devices and hard drives in the way they sound.

Oh dear

9designs2 · 28 Mar 2014 at 19:47

I just use the interconnects that came with the equipment

Did anyone else watch this:-

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shop-secrets-tricks-of-the-trade/4od

tom_nieto · 29 Mar 2014 at 20:43

Never thought we would get to debate which sounds better, AMD or Intel!

Caged · 30 Mar 2014 at 12:34

If the NAS that things are stored on makes a difference then I need to start up an audiophile ISP (and range of routers, probably made of wood) to ensure that the high fidelity files arrive at the NAS in the best possible condition.

86JR · 30 Mar 2014 at 23:12

If I buy these Chord Ethernet cables, will I get faster upload speed?

Pigeon_Killer · 31 Mar 2014 at 00:03

Has there been a What Hi-Fi? 5* Chord sponsored review yet?

Edit: They've already been mocked

bemaniac · 1 Apr 2014 at 17:16

oli collett said:
A 'lower priced' interconnect at £40/m kinda sums up a lot of what is wrong with the hi-fi industry. You don't need to spend £40 to get a well shielded interconnect.

Back at the what hi-fi blog, the post has now been updated and includes this gem:

Oh dear

£40/m is pretty disposable money though. You only need 1 meter!

Caged · 2 Apr 2014 at 00:52

Or you could spend £5 and still get a physically excellent interconnect (Van Damme cable, Neutrik connectors) and then have £35 to spend on other stuff.

bemaniac · 2 Apr 2014 at 09:37

Caged said:
Or you could spend £5 and still get a physically excellent interconnect (Van Damme cable, Neutrik connectors) and then have £35 to spend on other stuff.

Yeah i guess I liked the look and feel of the Chord ones. I usually just buy stuff that looks better even if it's the same item.

mrk · 2 Apr 2014 at 10:49

Absolute mug anyone who buys these things. My dac/amp came with a free Chord 1 metre optical cable which retails at £50!

Needless to say I sold it on eBay for £30+P&P and used the 5 metre £3 optical cable I bought from eBay which arguably feels better quality. I won't even mention any sound difference. It's a flipping digital optical cable lol.

I'll admit I paid a small premium for my speaker cables though not for sound quality gains but because they needed to be heavy duty and thick ones to last several years of bending.

Cosimo · 2 Apr 2014 at 11:13

The "Tuned ARAY" has sold it to me.

gingerbiscuit69 · 2 Apr 2014 at 11:26

bemaniac said:
Yeah i guess I liked the look and feel of the Chord ones. I usually just buy stuff that looks better even if it's the same item.

do you regularly look and feel your cables!?.... If so, you deserve to lose money to this kind of gash.

Van Damme cables are tourgrade [as are many other respected manufacturers], that means they will last being dragged around a muddy stage, soaked in stale beer, by technoviking playing metal, and last for years - whilst still remaining flexible. Not to mention, it's probably this same cable used in the studio to record the content you are listening too in the first place - well above any specification needed to function flawlessly at it's job!!

This is one of my pet hates... anything labeled 'Audiophile'. It should just translate too:

''A piece of equipment and/or hardware which whilst performing the task it is designed to do, is often drowned in elaborate marketing - often border lining on fraudulent claims with no scientific backing, an inflated cosmetic surround, and inflated pricetag''

bemaniac · 2 Apr 2014 at 15:04

gingerbiscuit69 said:
do you regularly look and feel your cables!?.... If so, you deserve to lose money to this kind of gash.

Van Damme cables are tourgrade [as are many other respected manufacturers], that means they will last being dragged around a muddy stage, soaked in stale beer, by technoviking playing metal, and last for years - whilst still remaining flexible. Not to mention, it's probably this same cable used in the studio to record the content you are listening too in the first place - well above any specification needed to function flawlessly at it's job!!

This is one of my pet hates... anything labeled 'Audiophile'. It should just translate too:

''A piece of equipment and/or hardware which whilst performing the task it is designed to do, is often drowned in elaborate marketing - often border lining on fraudulent claims with no scientific backing, an inflated cosmetic surround, and inflated pricetag''

I have no beef here. I just liked them. That manufacturer you mention also sells some of the worlds most expensive cables.

Bluecube · 2 Apr 2014 at 18:13

Is it actually allowed to make claims like that? Especially when it's nothing short of outright lies like those being made here.

gingerbiscuit69 · 2 Apr 2014 at 18:56

Bluecube said:
Is it actually allowed to make claims like that? Especially when it's nothing short of outright lies like those being made here.

i would imagine the only way to remove this, would be for someone to fund a full report on these claims to sufficient level of technical accuracy [in other words, that the manufacturer could not legally dispute your findings], then report them. Difficult to achieve when the little guy doesn't really have anything to gain through this, only these criminals who market/produce this absolute gash.

so yeah, much as those with higher brain function can point out that the theory is poor, the physics does not change, and that the test equipment cannot measure any difference, as long as someone says 'it sounds better' - people will buy it - and those will not listen to scientific proof. The only way is expensive scientific review, and law.