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Post by julesd68 on Mar 26, 2018 17:33:42 GMT
Now I can accept that it is a perfectly sensible idea to keep your spare RCA or XLR inputs clean and in good condition. But covering them with gold or platinum plated copper caps to "isolate EMI and RF noise absorbtion"? And here's the best bit - yes, of course they require 'burn in'. 50-140 hrs depending on which you order.  www.highendcable.co.uk/Telos%20Home.htmIf you read some of the reviews of these things it's like people are talking about component changes ...  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 26, 2018 17:57:45 GMT
I remember seeing those things on eBay donkey's years ago. They used to advertise multiple occurrences of the same item as manufacturer specific. You'd get an ad for 'Arcam foo caps' followed by 'Audiolab foo caps', followed by 'Roksan foo caps' and so on. They weren't quite as stupidly priced though, as I remember, and didn't mention run-in times. Obviously the use of the word "Quantum" in the description trebles the price, as well.
Did you also see the 'Panda Feet' cable supports on that site? Little blocks of wood at thirty quid a pop. For that money, I'd want them made out of real Pandas.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 26, 2018 18:08:19 GMT
 Russ Andrews was doing those wooden block thingys years ago, I suspect that's where they got the idea from but thought they could do them cheaper ...
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Post by scotty38 on Mar 26, 2018 18:36:05 GMT
Surely they shouldn't be dismissed unless they've been tried :-) :-)
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Post by ant on Mar 26, 2018 18:52:10 GMT
What a load of bollocks.
49 quids worth of records..... 49 quids worth of useless crap.....
I know where my money is going. (hint: it certainly aint the useless crap). Shove some blu tak in the spare sockets if you are that bothered
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 26, 2018 18:54:06 GMT
I got some off Ebay way less. Paid less than that for quite a few, perhaps 8
Subtle improvement, good VFM on the Chord Integrated and Pass Pre
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Post by Greg on Mar 26, 2018 22:09:56 GMT
Make your own with cheap phono plugs that you have shorted signal to return. Nothing new here apart from the posh manufacturing and the price. Shorted phono plugs have been used for years when electronically testing amplifiers. A pair should be in every electronic audio engineer or DIYers tool box. Some claim they make a difference when fitted to unused inputs. Suck it and see, but don’t pay those silly prices.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 27, 2018 12:48:35 GMT
At the time I couldn't get the image of evil, invisible, goo, oozing from unused RCA sockets out of my mind. Oddly enough, even knowing bugger-all about hi-fi (a situation I must rectify at some future date) it made me laugh rather than scared me.
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Post by The Brookmeister on Mar 27, 2018 17:04:13 GMT
What a load of bollocks. 49 quids worth of records..... 49 quids worth of useless crap..... I know where my money is going. (hint: it certainly aint the useless crap). Shove some blu tak in the spare sockets if you are that bothered Bollocks indeed, 1000's of these tweaks around all at differing price points, easy to mock them if they are not tuppence. Funny how people almost always take the piss out of stuff that appears to be expensive but never if its cheap, why should price even come into it if the product does what it says? |
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Post by Tim on Mar 27, 2018 19:23:42 GMT
. . . why should price even come into it if the product does what it says? Really? |
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