- Audio Woo Checklist
- Audiophile Afterlife
- Analog CD
- Bass
- Burn-in
- Car stereo
- Ceramic speakers
- Collapsible speakers
- Coat hangers
- Design
- Digital Cassette
- Engineering 101
- Invisible speakers
- LP + CD
- Digital LP
- DSD
- DVD rewinder
- Horns
- Musical Chair
- My Gear
- Best or bogus
- Pumps and Purse
- Power cord cats
- Psychology
- Radio
- Ripping the analog way
- Rip to analog
- Sound Icon
- Tape
- Toilet
- Universal Record
- Value for money
- Visible Sound
- Vinyl
- Wood glue
- Woofers
Value for money
Wattgate "audio grade" power socket $147.72
If you don't trust those entry level products try QSA
Quantum Science Audio Ultra Black/Red AC Receptacle $3,100.00
Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable $500,00
A couple of reviews
If a USB cable "provides a blacker, quieter background, reduces some 'glare' and brings out the micro-detail in the music." 1,096.54 UK pounds (1.5 meter) is a steal.
This is from the 2007 Transparent Cables price list.
The number after OMM is the length in feet.
The numbers in the right column the retail price in USD.
Wonder if I will improve by a bi-wired setup.
Indra interconnect by Stealth audio cables
Suggested retail price for a 1 meter RCA-terminated pair is $6,500.00, and $8.500 for balanced XLR version.
Purist Audio Design PROTEUS XLR2
Adding a garden hose and some techflex to a Belden cable improves the sound.
Source: http://www.shu-ks.com/zakki/lemoxlr.html
Entreq USB cable
Covering a bog standard cable with a cotton sock (sorry, chancing the dielectric) will of course make it sounds way better.
Audioquest CAT7 Ethernet Cable
DIRECTIONALITY: All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music. For example, NAS to Router, Router to Network Player.
Source: Audioquest.
$595 for 0.75m
Fuse £4,200.00
Quantum Science Audio Silver Extreme Level UK 13A Fuse sells for £4,200.00.
Lexicon
Lexicon put out a player called the BD-30, which they said was an enhanced Oppo BDP-83. The Oppo costs $500, the Lexicon $3500. Well, when the testers at Audioholics got their hands on the Lexicon, they cracked it open to check out the guts and found “it was in fact AN OPPO BDP-83 PLAYER, CHASSIS AND ALL, SHOVED INSIDE AN ALUMINUM LEXICON WRAPPER.”
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey