I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

On 28/12/2012 20:00, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

Think I'll have a couple of cable elevators at £15.57.

Mind, partner has a couple of cotton reel centres and we've got some
bluetack somewhere ...

--
Rod

D.M.Chapman wrote:



I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

I love the mains cables:

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...TBBGWNHKYVTDQH

"What will this cable do?
Fit the Classic to your Hi-Fi or Home Cinema component and in our view
you'll get more from your music and movies, with tighter bass, sweeter
treble and a wider, more detailed soundstage. Pictures are also sharper with
deeper, more natural colour."

The **** they are.

How even an over moneyed moron would expect even the best bit of cable in
the world to magically compensate for the basic wiring all the way from the
wall socket to the power station - including your phase-neighbour running up
his arc welder!

Unless of course you run your CU cables through solid golden threads wrapped
around an elven virgin's fanny to purify the evil ;-

I'd love to see a mugs gallery of who buys this stuff.

Probably the same people who respond to that particulary inane recent hoax
email that I've received about 20 times (to the same envelope address!)
offering me an HMRC refund, sometime after it has posted my credit card
details to a Brazilian web server...


--
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

On 28/12/2012 20:26, Tim Watts wrote:
D.M.Chapman wrote:



I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out
that there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

I love the mains cables:

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...TBBGWNHKYVTDQH

"What will this cable do? Fit the Classic to your Hi-Fi or Home
Cinema component and in our view you'll get more from your music and
movies, with tighter bass, sweeter treble and a wider, more detailed
soundstage. Pictures are also sharper with deeper, more natural
colour."

The **** they are.


Pay the money and I'm sure you'll see and hear the difference. And, if
you're the only one, it just proves your senses are super refined. Russ
can't lose

On 28/12/2012 20:00, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

The scary thing is that people do buy this stuff. I used to work with a
couple of highly-paid IT developers, who I considered very intelligent,
and shrewd in a worldly-wise sense, but they bought this sort of thing.
The only thing they had in common was that they hadn't come into IT via
the traditional numerate degree route, but I don't know if that is relevant.

There was definitely an "Emperor's New Clothes" thing going on between
them - they looked to each other for approval of the performance of
their respective Hi-fi systems.

In article , WetClay
scribeth thus
On 28/12/2012 20:00, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

The scary thing is that people do buy this stuff. I used to work with a
couple of highly-paid IT developers, who I considered very intelligent,
and shrewd in a worldly-wise sense, but they bought this sort of thing.
The only thing they had in common was that they hadn't come into IT via
the traditional numerate degree route, but I don't know if that is relevant.

There was definitely an "Emperor's New Clothes" thing going on between
them - they looked to each other for approval of the performance of
their respective Hi-fi systems.

You'll never see overpriced tat like that being used in Professional
studios and broadcast . In fact people are surprised when they hear that
places like that are often wired with no more then phone line cables
from krone frame to frame etc....


--
Tony Sayer

On 29/12/2012 09:40, WetClay wrote:
The scary thing is that people do buy this stuff. I used to work with a
couple of highly-paid IT developers, who I considered very intelligent,
and shrewd in a worldly-wise sense, but they bought this sort of thing.

What sort of thing?

Ye have to distiguish items of high worth due to
1) technical brilliance and expensive engineering / materials
or 2) "magical" marketing bull$hit from charlatans like RA?

To the "bloke in the street" they may be written of as identical.

The only thing they had in common was that they hadn't come into IT via
the traditional numerate degree route, but I don't know if that is
relevant.

"New wealth, must be seen with these clothes darling......."

Unless 2) can be scientifically proven not to be bull$hit, I suggest
those items should enforceably have VAT charged at 40%.

That should sort 'em out.

Hmm, there are loads of other dubious industries that that VAT idea
could also usefully apply to. Magical remedies and lotions....

--
Adrian C

On 28/12/2012 20:26, Tim Watts wrote:

I'd love to see a mugs gallery of who buys this stuff.


I think it should be a matter of public record, if some of these mugs
are found paid from the public coffers.

--
Adrian C

On 29/12/2012 09:40, WetClay wrote:
On 28/12/2012 20:00, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

The scary thing is that people do buy this stuff. I used to work with a
couple of highly-paid IT developers, who I considered very intelligent,
and shrewd in a worldly-wise sense, but they bought this sort of thing.
The only thing they had in common was that they hadn't come into IT via
the traditional numerate degree route, but I don't know if that is
relevant.

On the other hand, I found a competitor: http://tinyurl.com/clr9cvj -
Masters in Engineering and a PhD!

On 29 Dec, 21:50, Part Timer wrote:
On 29/12/2012 09:40, WetClay wrote:









On 28/12/2012 20:00, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

The scary thing is that people do buy this stuff. I used to work with a
couple of highly-paid IT developers, who I considered very intelligent,
and shrewd in a worldly-wise sense, but they bought this sort of thing.
The only thing they had in common was that they hadn't come into IT via
the traditional numerate degree route, but I don't know if that is
relevant.

On the other hand, I found a competitor:http://tinyurl.com/clr9cvj-
Masters in Engineering and a PhD!

mmmm

"For example, if you wanted a 4-way block with two 'small' 0.7m IEC
outputs (e.g. for a CD player and a DAC) and one 'medium' 1.0m IEC
output (e.g. for your amplifier), and a 0.4m 'large' inlet cable with
a UK plug, then you just need to add up the cost of the normal cables
(as listed on their own web pages, which can be reached through the
menu on the left of this page) with the extra 10cm added on - i.e. two
small 0.8m cables, one medium 1.1m cable and one large 0.5m cable. So
this would cost £214.99 + £214.99 + £374.99 + £299.99 + £100.00 for
the block and the SC module. "

er £1205 for a mains distro board?

"And you can even choose between UK, EU or US silver mains plugs -
they are all included in the prices given."

thank **** for that

Jim K

D.M.Chapman wrote:
I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

http://snipurl.com/2600wga

Two speaker stands, which are a triangle of timber at the bottom, three
lengths of brush steel, or inch dowel and another triangle of timber on top,
on which you put your speakers, speakers not included I might add...price? -
a mere £556, which is reduced from £595.

But the blurb says:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more extended
and tuneful too.

So well worth it

Tim Watts wrote:
D.M.Chapman wrote:



I know there are some fans on here so thought I just point out that
there is a cracking sale on at the moment

Reductions and free upgrades!

http://www.russandrews.com/viewindex...wintersale1213

Enjoy :-)

Darren

I love the mains cables:

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...TBBGWNHKYVTDQH

"What will this cable do?
Fit the Classic to your Hi-Fi or Home Cinema component and in our view
you'll get more from your music and movies, with tighter bass, sweeter
treble and a wider, more detailed soundstage. Pictures are also
sharper with deeper, more natural colour."

The **** they are.

How even an over moneyed moron would expect even the best bit of
cable in the world to magically compensate for the basic wiring all
the way from the wall socket to the power station - including your
phase-neighbour running up his arc welder!

Unless of course you run your CU cables through solid golden threads
wrapped around an elven virgin's fanny to purify the evil ;-

I'd love to see a mugs gallery of who buys this stuff.

I've met one:-)

I got asked to have a look at a new boiler that the plumber could not get to
fire up. The boiler was located in the attatched garage and running through
the garage were two speaker cables supplying the speakers in the lounge.
Both cables were clipped alongside mains cables and one speaker cable had a
lot of spare cable on it and this was wound up and hung on the garage wall
next to a double socket. The reason for this was because both cables needed
to be exactly the same length to get that perfect sound:-)

He had paid around £20/m for the speaker cable.

--
Adam

On 30/12/2012 16:55, Phil L wrote:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more extended
and tuneful too.

But you don't need a degree to see through that bull****. Everyone knows
that you can only get that type of improvement if the speaker is sitting
on top of a 4 sided pyramid.

--
mailto:news{at}admac(dot}myzen{dot}co{dot}uk

In article , alan
wrote:
On 30/12/2012 16:55, Phil L wrote:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more
extended and tuneful too.

But you don't need a degree to see through that bull****. Everyone knows
that you can only get that type of improvement if the speaker is sitting
on top of a 4 sided pyramid.

Oh - I thought you needed gold-plated mains plugs to get those effects

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:16:11 +0000, alan wrote:

On 30/12/2012 16:55, Phil L wrote:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more
extended and tuneful too.

But you don't need a degree to see through that bull****. Everyone knows
that you can only get that type of improvement if the speaker is sitting
on top of a 4 sided pyramid.

You'd get any opinion you wanted if you sat the listener on top of a 4
sided pyramid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_cradle

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On 05/01/2013 17:17, charles wrote:
In article , alan
wrote:
On 30/12/2012 16:55, Phil L wrote:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more
extended and tuneful too.

But you don't need a degree to see through that bull****. Everyone knows
that you can only get that type of improvement if the speaker is sitting
on top of a 4 sided pyramid.

Oh - I thought you needed gold-plated mains plugs to get those effects

But it's only worth doing that if the music stand lights of the entire
orchestra was using them at the time of the recording.

--
Rod

Yes with oxygen free braided cables as well.

Brian

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"charles" wrote in message
...
In article , alan
wrote:
On 30/12/2012 16:55, Phil L wrote:

Expect your sound to be more open, more natural, more detailed and with
better separation of instruments and voices. Bass is typically more
extended and tuneful too.

But you don't need a degree to see through that bull****. Everyone knows
that you can only get that type of improvement if the speaker is sitting
on top of a 4 sided pyramid.

Oh - I thought you needed gold-plated mains plugs to get those effects

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18