Mains cables

Agree over cables though whilst I am not convinced Graham agrees but the one cable not in the GSP range is the mains cable. In my experience mains does provide the biggest overall improvement (including mains hub/block) -rubbish in rubbish out. I tried several brands of mains before settling on one brand during which time I have migrated successfully to their top of the range for block and amp/cd. Some are overpriced vs performance whilst others provide in my experience a bigger improvement in all aspects than spending £1,000+ on electronics.

Richard

Hi Richard,
Always thought of £500 kettle leads as being snake oil. What's your experience/recommendations?

There seem to be thousands of the things around, silver ones, screened ones, plaited ones, ones which solid silver IEC connectors, rhodium plated plugs, gold plaited fuses... The list goes on. Makes me think it's all complete bobbins!

Any noise will either be induced, so some sort of twisted construction is needed to give a good common mode rejection or via contact so some sort filter on the incoming. I always thought the power supply in the unit would take care of any noise but noise is a funny thing.

As far as mains cables go, I have difficulty in accepting that the final metre of cable of a long chain of cables and connections from a power station can have any significant effect on the "quality" of electricity seen by a piece of equipment.

I'd say that all IEC connectors aren't equal, if only because some don't fit that well. Keeping contacts clean is surely a sensible thing too. Sound wise, I really don't know and I've honestly never even thought about fuse changes. That's why my own leads tend to be on the more basic side but not bog standard. Gold or Silver plated MK's & Wattgate IEC's. I must admit some of my IEC's aren't as snug as they could be, but the plug on the end of the lead is only half of the connection...