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Superb cables on a budget

At work we have a tree surgeon who turns up when a tree looks dodgy..anyway we were chatting about hifi and I asked him about the interconnects he was using..he said they were freebie ones! I had to hand a pair of interconnects ( as you do! ) and gave them to him, reasonable quality much better than freebie grot..now everytime he comes to chop our trees down ..he mentions how much better his cd player sounds through the interconnects i gave him..isn't that a lovely hifi story..
Ah how special.
He is obviously a gullible fella.
 
Back to the OP, I think it's good to have the occasional reminder, particularly for newcomers to this hobby of ours, that you really don't need to spend shed loads of money on fancy cables to have a decent sounding system.

I have an eclectic mix of cables from VdH, Chord, VD, YT, Monster and homemade. My selection criteria usually comes down to "is it the right length", and "is it bendy enough".

The only time I've ever "heard" a cable was when someone lent me a weird looking interconnect made of thin woven wire - I think it was a Kimber cable? - which made everything sound so jangly that I gave it back the same day!
 
Bookcase porn :D..one of them anyway. Lived in, I think you'd call it.

Bookcase.jpg
 
At work we have a tree surgeon who turns up when a tree looks dodgy..anyway we were chatting about hifi and I asked him about the interconnects he was using..he said they were freebie ones! I had to hand a pair of interconnects ( as you do! ) and gave them to him, reasonable quality much better than freebie grot..now everytime he comes to chop our trees down ..he mentions how much better his cd player sounds through the interconnects i gave him..isn't that a lovely hifi story..

I had a Miele service engineer here a few months ago to change the door on my fridge, who turned out to be a complete hifi nut. He spotted the music room. Couldn't get him out of the house.

A local carpenter recently built new bookcases in the music room. Incredibly tidy, against my better judgement.
 
I had a Miele service engineer here a few months ago to change the door on my fridge, who turned out to be a complete hifi nut. He spotted the music room. Couldn't get him out of the house.

A local carpenter recently built new bookcases in the music room. Incredibly tidy, against my better judgement.
A Miele needs fixing! Really? I have been to a few jobs and the customers have been hifi enthusiasts..they probably felt the same about me lol..I built my bookcase come cd storage and vinyl holder just using a panel saw and cordless screwdriver..it turned out quite well considering..varnished it with screwfix waterbased floor varnish..
 
A Miele needs fixing! Really? I have been to a few jobs and the customers have been hifi enthusiasts..they probably felt the same about me lol..I built my bookcase come cd storage and vinyl holder just using a panel saw and cordless screwdriver..it turned out quite well considering..varnished it with screwfix waterbased floor varnish..

The door seal came out and for that they change the whole door.

I did the £50 DIY wood + handsaw + a lick of paint thing in 1985, then MFI (a bit like Topping, great for 5 minutes, then it falls apart), then cheapo bespoke in 1997 (£1,000 for two bookcases that lasted 25 years). Went uber-posh last year, but got mate’s rates thankfully, they will still be here when I’m not.

I also had a drinks cabinet made. It’s called upcycling. You buy a piece of old crap and try and turn it into something not quite as crap. It’s an expensive way of saving the planet, but was fun all the same.
 
The door seal came out and for that they change the whole door.

I did the £50 DIY wood + handsaw + a lick of paint thing in 1985, then MFI (a bit like Topping, great for 5 minutes, then it falls apart), then cheapo bespoke in 1997 (£1,000 for two bookcases that lasted 25 years). Went uber-posh last year, but got mate’s rates thankfully, they will still be here when I’m not.

I also had a drinks cabinet made. It’s called upcycling. You buy a piece of old crap and try and turn it into something not quite as crap. It’s an expensive way of saving the planet, but was fun all the same.
One mans crap is anothers treasure! Lol..1k for 25 years, sounds ok to me..( I'm scratching my head as to how a bookcase gives up the ghost? ) I used to make hand made kitchens out of old pine joists many years ago..they are all still going strong! Mind you the joist were purloined from a railway station or is that just posh for train station? British Colombian Pine is just fab..bit resinous but super fab ( if you like wood ) the old plastic pipe trick on the contract saw helped with getting the resin off the blade..you could say I was a master craftsman? But nowadays I just listen carefully to hifi cables!
 
One mans crap is anothers treasure! Lol..1k for 25 years, sounds ok to me..( I'm scratching my head as to how a bookcase gives up the ghost? ) I used to make hand made kitchens out of old pine joists many years ago..they are all still going strong! Mind you the joist were purloined from a railway station or is that just posh for train station? British Colombian Pine is just fab..bit resinous but super fab ( if you like wood ) the old plastic pipe trick on the contract saw helped with getting the resin off the blade..you could say I was a master craftsman? But nowadays I just listen carefully to hifi cables!

We like wood here a lot more than cables. We have various things made from French oak, ash, striped eucalyptus, English oak, cherry and walnut, although my favourite bit is a 2m long bench made from 300 year old Teak from Java, recovered from a derelict temple. It’s black, has a wonderful texture and is as hard and heavy as steel. Time to visit my upcycled drinks cabinet.
 
As Peter Walker would have said, the good thing about wood is that it doesn't conduct electricity.

I know this because if there is a wood that conducts electricity, someone would by now have made a cable out of it.
I had some cables with a block of wood at one end. I'm not sure what the puropose of the wood was.
 
At work we have a tree surgeon who turns up when a tree looks dodgy..anyway we were chatting about hifi and I asked him about the interconnects he was using..he said they were freebie ones! I had to hand a pair of interconnects ( as you do! ) and gave them to him, reasonable quality much better than freebie grot..now everytime he comes to chop our trees down ..he mentions how much better his cd player sounds through the interconnects i gave him..isn't that a lovely hifi story..
Did he take off his ear defenders first?
 


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