WTF!

robwright

http://www.russandrews.com/the-superkord500-sdii-uk-mains-w350i-ag-hc/

Legionreturns

And for only an extra £15 they'll make it a used one for you! 

Now I've seen everything!

ICBM

You can also pay an extra £25 for a special mains fuse!

Presumably they also sell 'audiophile grade' house ringmain wiring, consumer distribution units, and street cabling to the local substation as well, or upgrading just the last metre of a several hundred metre supply line would seem like a waste of money...

Sassafras

For an extra £25.50 you can have it cryogenically frozen or have it burnt in for only £15.

prowla

The mains plug is actually a generic one with its shroud removed and the two side edges filed flat.

Mind you, Hi-Fi is a pernickety piece of kit - I have a £350 cable connecting my CD player to the my pre-amp.

Sassafras

I dread to think how much  the Russ Andrews wind turbine will cost.
There are so many ways to exploit the feeble minded.

Legionreturns

ICBM said:

You can also pay an extra £25 for a special mains fuse!

Presumably they also sell 'audiophile grade' house ringmain wiring, consumer distribution units, and street cabling to the local substation as well, or upgrading just the last metre of a several hundred metre supply line would seem like a waste of money...

Just out of curiosity I changed the cable length from 1m to 2m ...the price went up by about £150. So...I'm struggling to see how that works. Is the plug and connectors the but that's worth £1200? If the cable is only £150 a meter you might as well go right to the substation  

Even better, see if you can find some locally sourced organic electricity for purer tone

Jalapeno

<sigh> more Russ Andrews' bollocks questionable hokum - let's keep it civil people.

scrumhalf

It's the audio equivalent of those £700 t-shirts you see in the Sunday supplements. It may do what it does very well, but so would something costing a fraction of the price.

Sassafras

Legionreturns said:

ICBM said:

You can also pay an extra £25 for a special mains fuse!

Presumably they also sell 'audiophile grade' house ringmain wiring, consumer distribution units, and street cabling to the local substation as well, or upgrading just the last metre of a several hundred metre supply line would seem like a waste of money...

Just out of curiosity I changed the cable length from 1m to 2m ...the price went up by about £150. So...I'm struggling to see how that works. Is the plug and connectors the but that's worth £1200? If the cable is only £150 a meter you might as well go right to the substation  

Even better, see if you can find some locally sourced organic electricity for purer tone

You're forgetting the highly skilled, expensive labour it takes to wire up a plug.

Legionreturns

I'm actually the sort of contrary twat that if a mate bought one of these and turned up to a gig with it, I'd daisy chain it through as many coiled up b&q budget extension leads as I could lay my hands on  

Winny_Pooh

And if you want to improve the quality of your colour printer.

http://www.russandrews.com/kimber-axios-usb-a-to-b/

duotone

I wonder how many of these they sell

AlexC

Plugs for mugs.

Rocker

robwright said:

http://www.russandrews.com/the-superkord500-sdii-uk-mains-w350i-ag-hc/

Sigh! When you have nothing to say, slag off audiophiles. If you had simply tried one in your hi-fi system, you do have a hi-fi system?, and found that everything that RA wrote about it is bollox, your opinion would have some credibility. Without trying it out yourself, your opinion is mere conjecture [whatever the "experts" say]

robwright

Rocker said:

robwright said:

http://www.russandrews.com/the-superkord500-sdii-uk-mains-w350i-ag-hc/

Sigh! When you have nothing to say, slag off audiophiles. If you had simply tried one in your hi-fi system, you do have a hi-fi system?, and found that everything that RA wrote about it is bollox, your opinion would have some credibility. Without trying it out yourself, your opinion is mere conjecture [whatever the "experts" say]

Sorry Mr Andrews - my bad! 

Electro_Ham

I know Russ Andrews stuff comes in for a lot of flak. Here's my 2p worth. I was given a Yell0 Power multi-block some 20 years or so ago. I was skeptical. However, if I had to choose which piece of equipment that made the biggest improvement to the hi-fi's sound, it was that multi-block. I wouldn't have bought one with my own cash though.....couldn't afford to then or now.

robwright

It's not the audio improvement i question, it's the seemingly overinflated prices. Can it really cost £500 to manufacture an IEC lead that you then go onto sell for £1500? 

thermionic

I bought one of these for my kettle. The tea tastes FANTASTIC.

JezWynd

Suddenly realised my life is a hollow shell, without meaning or form. Where's my credit card.

bingefeller

Legionreturns said:

And for only an extra £15 they'll make it a used one for you! 

Now I've seen everything!

I bet they just leave it plugged in and turned on for a 15 hours.  Essentially you're getting charged £1 per hour for burn in time.