RE: THX and other matters

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> To illustrate your cable bit - I dropped into my local dealer
> to pick up an Arcam DV88P to try against the Onkyo player I
> bought the other day (and am having loads of problems with
> synch issues). He lent me a power lead from the manufacturer
> (Precious Metals), a simple 'kettle' type lead but made from
> silver wire. He claimed it made a huge difference, I was VERY
> suspicious but thought I'd see if there was the slightest
> difference (it was also meant to have magical noise reducing
> properties). It wasn't till I got home that I saw the price
> sticker on the front - =A3160, yes ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY POUNDS !!!
Yeah ... I loaned a mate a few "digital" cables for him to try no= t too
long ago - one was a "freebie" 75 ohm composite video cable, one = was a
"freebie" analogue audio cable and one was rather a tasty looking= cable
that I didn't specify what it was.

That cable was assumed by my mate to be a very expensive cable simply
because the wire itself was really nice, thick and flexible - felt great - and the connectors were locking units but were WBT clones. Actual cost of cable - =A311.99 from Maplin! (And I'm sure that even that price was
excessive...)

I just wish I could still find the URL for the ultimate digital cable
that I found a couple of years ago ... Some guy was ranting about the
cost of digital cables and to prove the point of how silly it had become took a freebie analogue audio interconnect, cut it in half, soldered
each half to the ends of an untwisted wire coathanger and then ran the
signal from a Sony 7000 DVD player into a professional Dolby Digital
Decoder and produced a printout of the bit error rates over the duration of a movie (there were none). Given that this was therefore the
"perfect" digital cable he then offered to sell it on the web for= $1,300
(or $1,500 with the printout)...

> Of course, it's going back with the loan kit on Monday!

God I'm glad to hear that!

Phil

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