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Mains Lead £1870!!!!!

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Titiksu

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http://www.custom-cable.co.uk/furutech-powerflux-mains-cable.html

£1870 for a mains lead!!!! Blimey !!!! Bargain of the century. I'll take 6 please before stocks run out. Better buy a few for investment for when it becomes a rare sought after classic.

What does it do that a kettle lead out of a skip can't do?

Surely it can only degrade the mains by more purely transmitting all the cr*p off my dirty little ring main out here in sunny suburbia.
 
Here's the description. I thought I was reading something out of Monty Python!!!!

"Enthusiasts know that everything in the signal path makes a difference and that what they see and hear is, in a very direct way, the AC power itself. The sweeping way in which Furutech goes about thoroughly engineering and refining their products is a tour de force of detail and design work.

Cable Essentials
Powerflux conductors are 68-strand α (Alpha) OCC twisted around μ–conductor strands with a special-grade PE insulation or dielectric. (Alpha conductors are fine OCC wire treated with Furutech’s Alpha Cryogenic and Demagnetizing process.) The dielectric is surrounded by an inner sheath of RoHS-compliant PVC incorporating carbon powder that enhances damping, and that in turn is covered by a full α (Alpha) conductor wire braid shield. Another flexible PVC outer sheath and a Nylon braid jacket finish the job.

Piezo Ceramic Series Connectors
The extraordinary FI-50 series connectors are a result of the meticulous way that Furutech engineers examine and improve each and every element of signal transfer using breakthrough technologies to reach their Pure Transmission Technology goal.

Furutech’s beautifully-finished FI-50(R) IEC and FI-50M(R) Piezo Ceramic series connector housings are made of multiple layers of carbon fiber in a damping and insulating acetal copolymer, surrounded by nonmagnetic stainless steel bands. The connector bodies combine two “active” materials: Nano-sized ceramic particles and powdered carbon. Nylon and fiberglass are incorporated as well forming an extremely effective, mechanically and electrically nonresonant connector body that may just be the most sophisticated in the world."
 
The plug design looks dangerous to me. Compared to a standard plug, surely the live/neutral pins could be touched as the plug is inserted? Especially if small fingers are involved.

But if it sounds better, so what, eh?
 
I nearly fell off the chair laughing.

When can you "see" sound (without mind altering chemicals)

Quote. ".....what they see and hear is, in a very direct way, the AC power itself."

How about de-magnetising copper???

Quote. "Alpha conductors are fine OCC wire treated with Furutech’s Alpha Cryogenic and Demagnetizing process"
 
Some women pay £3000 for a handbag that costs £10 to make, my wife bought some expensive shampoo that claims to contain "silk molecules," the implication being that it will make your hair "silky." We live in a world of abundance and superfluous imagery, fantasy.
 
To be fair, it has got a 'flexible PVC sheath', which you don't see much on a mains leads and could be very handy for getting round bends.
 
All concepts like "value" and "worth" are illusory distractions.
FWIW I get synaesthesic reactions to music in certain conditions. I understand the phenomenon intimately.
I tend to use the power cord supplied by the manufacturer. They can then be approached should a problem arise.
 
It surely must raise questions about the credibility of the industry.

How can maunufactures and retailers expect to be taken seriously re the value for money verses performance of their products when they produce something like a Rus Andrews £5k mains lead?

Unless you are going to build a dedicated power station in your back garden with a silver wound generator set running on air bearings, whats the point? And would you even notice the difference???
 
PaulMB said:
Some women pay £3000 for a handbag that costs £10 to make, my wife bought some expensive shampoo that claims to contain "silk molecules," the implication being that it will make your hair "silky." We live in a world of abundance and superfluous imagery, fantasy.
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Which 3 grand handbags cost £10 to make?
 
For that money, you could rewire the more significant part of the supply circuit, and probably half the way back to the substation transformer!
 
I tried to post a review of the cable on their site -- but they review them first, so unlikely it'll get through...
 
killie99 said:
Correct, nowhere near £10. They probably cost about £1.37 to make and the poor wee Indian/Pakistani/Vietnamese working in the sweat shop gets about 5p per bag.
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I am sorry to say that you are wrong. I can give specific examples where production is in Italy or France and the workers are paid a lot more than you say. It would help me if you could give me a brand and model where a £3k bag costs £1.37 to make. Then we could balance this with others who don't. It would be nice to stop the generalisations.
 
The key quote on this sort of thing came from the Chairman of Guchi, when asked how they could justify thousands of pounds for a leather handbag , he replied: ''we are not selling handbags, we are selling dreams.''
The vastly expensive power lead...how many would you need?.....is part of the same concept; it allows rich hobbyists to dream.
No harm in that really.
 
Titiksu said:
It surely must raise questions about the credibility of the industry.
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That ship has sailed, it did so long ago. As far as normal sane people go the hifi industry jumped the shark 15 or 20 years ago. Since then it has gone further and further up its own orifice with increasingly expensive accessories to adorn shelves in lounges. Tell people what you have paid for an amplifier and people gape, you then tell them you have paid for a bit of wire and at that point the light goes on and they realise that you're buying into a lifestyle. Just like the people who collect classic cars and who have a complete set of perfectly clean and virtually unused SnapOn tools in a pristine garage, you are buying into a hobby. Now OK, I'm painting an extreme here but we all know people who fit some aspects of this picture.
 
Hifi_swlon said:
To be fair, it has got a 'flexible PVC sheath', which you don't see much on a mains leads and could be very handy for getting round bends.
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everyone knows Russ Andrews is a rip off.. he got done for selling cables and introduced more rfi than a bog standard kettle lead
 
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