macbeth(Competent) posted this on Saturday, 27th September 2003, 11:11
Russ Andrews sell a full range of Kimber cables, interconnect and mains, some of which are frighteningly expensive. They make some very bold claims as to the benefits these cables can have on a system. I always use good quality interconnects costing no more than about £80 and feel that £500 to £1,250 is taking the p***.
One of the strangest claims they make is that a replacement Kimber mains cable to your source component will have the most dramatic benefit.
Having resisted falling for this for quite some time I finally relented out of curiosity and bought a 1m length of Reference Powercord for £100, crazy, saving £50, phew, on the connector by having it bare ended as I intended to solder it, perhaps that should be weld considering the thickness of the thing, into my CD player.
The transformation of my humble £500 CD player is astonishing even my wife heard the difference and I did not go to bed until 4a.m. as I went into the night rediscovering my CD collection.
Point is for all you DVD dudes is that this is also meant to hold true for the picture and sound quality of DVD players, anyone tried it or dare to?
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RE: Russ Andrews, Kimber Cable, black magic?
Mike G(Elite) posted this on Saturday, 27th September 2003, 11:34
I`m not convinced. Unless you`ve done a double blind test (i.e. a listening test where you don`t know which cable is connected at any one time), any improvement in sound quality can be explained by the placebo effect.
If I can beg, steal or borrow one of these cables, I may well set up such a test to see if my scepticism is justified.
Mike
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RE: Russ Andrews, Kimber Cable, black magic?
RichardH(Elite) posted this on Saturday, 27th September 2003, 15:51
I think old Russ does a money back guarantee, so you could take advantage of that to have a go, and let us know!
RE: Russ Andrews, Kimber Cable, black magic?
macbeth(Competent) posted this on Sunday, 28th September 2003, 08:27
Yes you can have a home trial but you will have to use a cable with a connector. Regarding blind tests I`ve been into HiFi since I was 15 done many a blind test and have even had tricks played on me which I have spotted every time. On this ocassion I played a CD which I found barely listenable, fitted the cable, tried the CD again and it was easy to listen to.
