Mains Cables (captive)

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

RD did you not hard wire your speaker cable recently to your amps and found a sonic improvement ?

Yes all hard wiring improves things, all a plug and socket does is get in the way of connecting two bits of wire. BUT some applications for production are not practical and I think speaker cable is one of them, for individual tweaking though it could be a good choice.

[Sovereign]

RD did you not hard wire your speaker cable recently to your amps and found a sonic improvement ?

Yes all hard wiring improves things, all a plug and socket does is get in the way of connecting two bits of wire. BUT some applications for production are not practical and I think speaker cable is one of them, for individual tweaking though it could be a good choice.

Those are my thoughts,

[Classicrock]

That is a tad harsh on the magnificent European union , who not only made electronics safer for everybody , made sure intelligent amplifiers designers had a design loophole :D

Well it turned out I didn't need a loophole as the regs are not being policed. If they were *EVERY SINGLE* EU based valve amp manufacturer would be put out of business.

Didn't you know valve amps are excluded from the regs . Probably why people think valves sound better -simple unprotected circuit plus all that warm tubeyness.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Was the laugh smiley because you are joking. If not where have you read that valve amps are excluded from the regs, can you give me a link, as it is news to me.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

simple unprotected circuit plus all that warm tubeyness.

It would be hard to find a more effective protection and a more distortion adding / music changing circuit than a output transformer.

[Classicrock]

Was the laugh smiley because you are joking. If not where have you read that valve amps are excluded from the regs, can you give me a link, as it is news to me.

What do you think. LOL. I wouldn't class an output transformer as a circuit but excuse my ignorance - but it appears the bigger OT the better with valves.

[jammy395]

I reckon as with most things - this is a whole lot more complex an issue than that..... what about OTL amps and i think a OT is a circuit.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

What do you think. LOL. I wouldn't class an output transformer as a circuit but excuse my ignorance - but it appears the bigger OT the better with valves.

I would prefer not to have the ambivalent statement. Mostly it is a circuit to accommodate the transformer.

[terrybooth]

Can't spot it but I can remember it. Using LS2 as mains leads and a reason why it was better.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

And the other LS's are better again as mains cable but the agg is not worth the result. Can you imagine listing amps with 5 or 6 mains cable options. A line has to be drawn somewhere and in my opinion the differences are less or on a par with environmental differences like heat and humidity, so I have left things as they are.

IMO the most major improvement anyone can make with a hi-fi appliance mains cable is hardwire (both ends if poss).