Thread: shielded power cable

Originally Posted by rkreim

The power cable upgrade it wiil make a difference to your cd player, power amp ,dvd player. clearer treble open midrange and firmer bass.
Check out the following
www.rkcable.com.au

What's wrong with a 100hz low pass filter in the DC supply lead? A damn sight cheaper and a damn sight more effective. Been around since Adam was a pup.

$299 for less than two meters of shielded power cable!. Wow, thats an audio bargain!!!one!!

As soon as I finish paying for the items below, I'll get right on to buying it!!1!eleven!!!

Beechwood knobs with C37 lacquer for better sound $485 US

Speaker cable tails with "Slipstream Quantum Purifier" for $990 US

Golden sound acoustic disks for $140 US

Oh and I'll get one of those DVD rewinders, too!!!!

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Oh and I'll get one of those DVD rewinders, too!!!!

Need one myself. Rewinding by hand is a right pain - especially the extra long blu-ray disks.

Hmmm I wonder if they got enough in stock to reach back to the powerplant from my powerpoint?

Sorry mate but I can buy sheilded power lead from either Belden or Volex at my friendly local electrical supplier for the princely sum of $3 per metre or about $30 for a fully terminated 2 metre lead....

So unless you are prepared to lend me your fancy lead so I can satisfy myself that the result is a 100 times improvement in what I currently have then you have no hope of convincing anyone....let alone me.

Reminds me of when I went to Hardly Normal to get a Firewire cable for my DV Camcorder. The bloke in the AV section showed me a cable 1.2m long that cost $120. He sprouted about how good it was and that you would get almost perfect transmission of the signal. He then told me that he had a $180 cable connecting his $100 DVD player to his stereo.

After all this I went next door to the computer section and bought an identical firewire cable for only $36. Told the above story to the computer sales bloke and he proceeded to call the AV sales guy and tell him off for being such a wank.

Originally Posted by rkreim

The power cable upgrade it wiil make a difference to your cd player, power amp ,dvd player. clearer treble open midrange and firmer bass.
Check out the following
www.rkcable.com.au

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

After all this I went next door to the computer section and bought an identical firewire cable for only $36.

I'm afraid you still got done. At my local computer shop, Beecom Technologies, a 2 M Firewire cable will cost you $6 or $8 depending on the types of connectors (4 or 6 pin) on each end.

RK Cable - rk reim. Coincidence?

Originally Posted by RobP

I'm afraid you still got done. At my local computer shop, Beecom Technologies, a 2 M Firewire cable will cost you $6 or $8 depending on the types of connectors (4 or 6 pin) on each end.

I have a real cheap cable as well and there is a noticable difference between using the two. The cheaper cables have less strands in each wire and little or no shielding around the core.

RK Cable - rk reim. Coincidence?

Probably not, but I don't think they've won over too many potential customers here anyway.

HIFI marketing stupidity is still live and kicking

I would question the legality of shielded cable for use in mains flex for connecting appliances.
In a previous version of standards it was specificaly forbiden.


Completely pointless anyway ...... the majority of radiation from power cords is inductive...... the shield will only provide electrostatic protection.

I can not see what positive effect a shielded power cord could posibly have on a sound system.

There is no substitute for a propely designed powersupply.

I never cease to be amazed by the completly stupid things people do to try and get rid of "noises" from sound systems. I've seen so many solutions that have nothing to do with and no effect on the problem. The problem is usualy simple and straight forward.

another typical piece of HIFI bull$#*T.

I buy most of the interconnect cables I dont make wholsale & I am gob smacked at the retail prices that some stores are asking.

cheers

I was involved in a rather large experiment which started at a Bass Player's forum I'm assiciated with. Someone was claiming their power cables could improve the sound of ANY piece of audio equipment. One of the forum members called the bluff in public and forced the guy into a position where he had no choice but to supply his "advanced" power cables for testing by the members of the forum. There cables were shipped from one member to another over several months and everyone got to test them whatever way they felt would reveal any of the cables claimed benefits. All testers were instructed to keep their findings quiet until everyone had finished their tests.

On a specified day, everyone posted not only their findings, but details of exactly how they tested the cables. Testing methods varied from straight blind listening tests to set-ups involving complicated testing equipment.

Guess what the results were? Not one tester was able to identify any improvement in sound whatsoever. Surprise Surprise!

People buy these things though.... I guess it's true that there's one born every minute.

I think it was one of my favourite septics, WC Fields, who once said:

"It is a gentleman's sworn duty to part a sucker from his money".