[Closed] Are you still fitting normal 13A fuses in plugs?

Very few items in the house should need a 13amp fuse most plugs should have 3 or 5 amp fuses depending on what they are running.

Don't worry. they sell those too. A snip at £25

Very few items in the house should need a 13amp fuse most plugs should have 3 or 5 amp fuses depending on what they are running.

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"Finally getting chance to sit and listen to the Super Fuse and you've done it again! Great upgrade. Soundstage is now wide enough to forget the speakers are even there! Moreover, I think the musicians are actually having more fun!!

To some it up...love it!"

Mr J Weston, Bromsgrove"

Can you phone NHS 24 to get someone sectioned?

I was going to laugh and feel superior. But then going on the price of mtb stuff these days and the recent switch to a new industry standard and completely unnecessary 27.5 wheel size, for no other reason than its reinvigorated returns for companies in the bike industry where innovation has slowed. So maybe the joke us on us as much as the hifi buffs...

25 quid for a fuse? Bargain!

That's f-ing mental.

How many fuses would I need to cost 25quid. Even if I bought them in Harrods I doubt over a lifetime of blowing fuses would I spend 25 squid!
I'm out!

You'd be a bit annoyed if you wired up your directional cable the wrong way and blew it the first time you plugged it in.

£25 for a fuse is brilliant.

Nearly as good as Brew Dog selling a 1 Gallon brew kit for £40.

[url= http://www.therealalecompany.co.uk/brooklyn-brew-shop-beer-making-kit-brewdog-punk-ipa-kit.html ]http://www.therealalecompany.co.uk/brooklyn-brew-shop-beer-making-kit-brewdog-punk-ipa-kit.html[/url]

What's the HiFi buffs take on Bluetooth speakers then... 😆

It must be "does not compute" moment for them...

Bang on about contact and special coatings but they sell a bog standard crimping kit;

[url= http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=0&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1205 ]http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=0&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1205[/url]

Why would they not recommend a soldered joint etc?

We’ve tested our SuperFuses™ against several other competitors’ fuses and in our systems here and at home and we’ve yet to find a competitors’ fuse that outperformed our new fuses.

Which is carefully not quite going as far as to say that the SuperFuses™ out perform anything else, just that they're not worse than something that costs 10p.

Anyway its all for nothing if you've not replaced the atmosphere in your living room with the special air you have to pay extra for when you get tyres at kwikfit

Nearly as good as Brew Dog selling a 1 Gallon brew kit for £40.

But £6 a pint is well worth it.

Even before opening it I knew this was going to be about Russ Andrews....

Some things never change. But for those who like their hifi without a great deal of BS, [url= http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/ ]pinkfishmedia is about as close a hifi forum to STW as you're likely to get. [/url]

Seems like they've priced it too low, it's hard to imagine a £25 fuse can offer that much performance advantage but a £5000 fuse will obviously be better.

edit - already done.

What's the HiFi buffs take on Bluetooth speakers then...

They're fine but you have to carefully consider the transport path for the signal. Ideally, fill the room with Helium but that's really only for the most exacting systems. In most cases, a nitrogen only atmosphere works well and is easily obtainable.

Five minutes sat listening to a bluetooth speaker in either a helium or nitrogen-fillied room and you'll never hear anything better...

Rachel

I might get some of these for my sonos speakers

ourmaninthenorth - Member
pinkfishmedia is about as close a hifi forum to STW as you're likely to get.

so nickc...

nickc - Member
What's the HiFi buffs take on Bluetooth speakers then?

[url= http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=170532 ]...wonder no more[/url]

On that second link in the OP, change the 'plug type' drop-down and watch the price change.

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[i]watch the price change.[/i]

I'm assuming the revised price includes the tidal power generator that makes electricity from waves traveling at exactly 50Hz so there's no phasing issues?

Dear god, I just went down the rabbit hole on that website. I knew hi-fi buffs paid over the odds for stuff, but some of that stuff is ridiculous. DO they live in some parallel universe with different laws of physics? 😆

DO they live in some parallel universe with different laws of physics?

It is well known in the Hifi world that Physics has yet to properly explain the well known Hifi phenomenon whereby the more you pay for something the better it sounds even though conventional physics can find no physical difference between the two items. That was the real reason the Hifi community built the Cern particle accelerator.....

I always end up convinced that it's all a massive troll.

Shoddy website - there's an 11ft cable priced at £8500! - they really need to proof read it.

That cable ... but you just plug it into a copper supplied feed ... but ... it ... but ... it's ... useless.

Nearly as good as Brew Dog selling a 1 Gallon brew kit for £40.

It's not even a real gallon.

The end caps are hand-polished

Well, I'm sold. Oh! wow. They're in stock as well.

That Russ Andrews website is bonkers - the only thing more outrageous than the prices is the guff descriptions of how they improve things. Anyway off to replace my stem bolts some titanium ones so I'll go faster.

For an extra £15 they'll complete the 'burn in' process for you too by plugging it into their special machine for 3 days. Accelerates the process from 500hrs to a mere 72.

Doesn't seem that much more mental that some of the crap spouted about bikes, I wonder if those fuses would make the trail come alive if play mtb video soundtracks?

We’ve tested our SuperFuses™ against several other competitors’ fuses and in our systems here and at home and we’ve yet to find a competitors’ fuse that outperformed our new fuses.

Outperformed. So all the others from the hardware shop are just as good.

Hifi reviews - the ultimate source of confirmation bias (mountain bikes = second)!

Hifi reviews - the ultimate source of confirmation bias (mountain bikes = second)!

Source?

Source?

This is an internet forum, not The Journal of Applied Physics. Sources/citations/raw data would invariably get in the way of the knee-jerk responses so loved of the internet (which is why said journal probably doesn't have a forum).

I'm in the market for some laterally ridged yet vertically compliant speaker cable to make my speakers come alive.
Anyone know where I can get some?

nickc - Member
What's the HiFi buffs take on Bluetooth speakers then?

...wonder no more

I didn't realise they were Bluetooth.

Hifi reviews - the ultimate source of confirmation bias (mountain bikes = second)!

That fuse is cheap you need one of these

[url= http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/mains-products/936-synergistic-research-red-reference-mains-fuse-13-amp-.html ]Synergistic Research Fuse £57[/url]

And a £165 wall socket [url= http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/mains-wall-sockets/198-furutech-fp-1363d-uk-wall-socket.html ]http://www.mains-cables-r-us.co.uk/mains-wall-sockets/198-furutech-fp-1363d-uk-wall-socket.html[/url]

HiFi and religion are similar in a lot of ways.
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Both, when taken to the extreme require the suspension of rational belief and a willingness to replace a lifetimes experience with the opinion of others.

Flat earthers/Linn evangelists are usually the worst - Scientology for non Americans.

My brother in law is manager of a Hi-Fi shop and while he acknowledges that there 'probably' isn't any picture quality difference between using a cheap HDMI cable and an expensive one, the [b]sound[/b] quality coming through that same cable is another matter.

In addition he sells expensive cloths for wiping dust off your CDs and insists the difference between a freshly wiped CD and a slightly dusty one is night and day.

Don't you just wipe cd's and dvd's on your jumper before playing them??

Que? It's digital. It either reads or it doesn't. It's not a vinyl record. There are some proper whoppers in the HiFi world 😆

I remember seeing a similar advert years ago for a wooden volume knob to replace your existing (terrible sounding) one. The description of how it achieved superior sound quality was comedy/marketing gold. Think it was about £800.

My brother in law is manager of a Hi-Fi shop and while he acknowledges that there 'probably' isn't any picture quality difference between using a cheap HDMI cable and an expensive one, the sound quality coming through that same cable is another matter.

It's the same technology so how on earth can be better for one and not the other, except for helping the sales figures in your brother's shop?