In my experience te soes wic ave a wider base are sinificantly better as tey provide better isolation and decouplin. Of course not too wide 40mm sould be perfect for speaker stands.
Wy spend 10,000 euro on a top notc system if you dont know ow to et te best out of it. I tink tese mucical lovers tink you are ettin te top sound available from teir new system but experience tells a new i fi is just te beinnin as tere are so many SQ imptovements to be ad and acieved and some for virtually free as well. New i fi only ive you te potential for very ood SQ and not te ood SQ itself.
Sorry about te missin letters, my keyboard is broken.
My keyboard is broken… But my enthusiasm is not…
@Henryski,… Okay,.good that you said it,I figured that you had an a little too funny Saturday-night with…some nice whiskey .
/Peder🙂
Phew - thought you may have been using one of those boutique Ethernet cables between computer and router
Grateful to Cableoholic
And,.I’m sure I’ve forgotten to answer any question here,or in other threads.
It’s not because I don’t care about the questions,.but because I forget,because I also have my own forum in Sweden to put energy into.
So if you are wondering anything about the pictures,.or other things and not received any answers,.then please ask again.
• You know that different people give different “input”,.and that it is the dedicated fanatics who are driving the development forward.
That’s why I’m grateful to Cableoholic.
With his “madness” in the field of cables,.so he has opened our eyes,to me/us to this interesting area.
I mean,.I am not inexperienced in this area,instead on the contrary.
But the development is moving forward,.and we have more “dirt” in our mains,dedicated mains today than before.
So Cableoholic has given us new energy and new insight in this area.
Yesterday,.after listening to this powercable (on the first picture below) with a friend.
So I jumped up and did “High Five” ,.and my friend said…
That all of a sudden,.I heard when the singer was breathing between the song-verses,he had never heard that before on this very famous swedish song.
We are conducting a test of contacts.
We have a very good powercable,.Jorma Design Duality.
With the optimal length of this cable of 1.5m (more on this later).
• This cable is on “run-in/burn-in”,.it has now gone 100 hours.
Contacts are Furutech’s best…FI-E50 NCF.
• This is a picture of the contacts to the cable in the image above. Furutech FI-E50 NCF.
• This is Oyaide’s best contacts…M1/F1,on a similar powercable. Run-in/burn-in 300 hours.
• This is Oyaide’s second best contacts P/C 004. Same Burn-in/run-in 300 hours.
All cables are terminated (are mounted) according to Furutech’s,Oyaide’s instructions.
As well as Jorma Design’s instructions.
This also means that recommended torque have been used.
Continuation follows…
/Peder🙂
Never compromises.
To understand my Cableoholic-friend,.he never compromises.
We others just “shake our heads” .
He bought Timeportal’s best HDMI-cable this spring.
According to TimePortal,.the shortest length you should have for optimal performance is 2.5m on their construction.
And it costs just over £2100.
Now this HDMI-cable has been upgraded,.of course,Mr Cableoholic got his newly purchased upgraded HDMI-cable from the US yesterday (Friday).
That said,.just over £2,100 for 2.5m HDMI-cable,.and he has several.
One in 6m,.sits in his film-projector on the ceiling.
As a contrast,.a friend of mine who has Linn’s absolute largest active exact-system.
He went into the Linn-store High Fidelity in Stockholm,.and bought three HDMI-cables. They cost £16 for each cable .
I ask my friend,.why don’t you be at Mr Cableoholic’s level.
Then three HDMI-cables just cost over £6,300…
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We Live In A Crazy World…
• This is Cableoholic’s new HDMI-cable,.called Signature.
• This is a picture of the entire HDMI-Signature cable.
Signature is TimePortal’s best HDMI cable,.after that,you have Statement,and last Reference.
/Peder🙂
Peder, I feel your friend is ill. He should consult a psychiatrist.
Be careful, you can catch his disease
He seems to never be satisfied by his system and simply relax and listen. It’s the extreme side of the audiophile world that I hate honestly.
I think we are a lot to be a bit ill here, always trying to improve something. But so many cables you posted of your cableholic friend is dramatic and insane.
What’s the pleasure to test them indefinitely. I can’t share it sorry.
@frenchrooster,…Listen to Leonard Cohen’s “My Secret Of Life”,.on his system is actually a mere revelation.
If I’m going to try to describe,.the best description is that…“it smells like sex in the room about Leonard Cohen’s voice” Wow,Wow…!!
As well,.these three powercables we test,the first in the picture,which only played 100 hours. If I say like this,.I’ve never jumped up and made “High Five” over how a powercable performs before….
Then you’ll have to interpret that reaction .
And,.he listens very,very much to music,but has less understanding of the importance of music-system installation.
So we’ve helped each other with our different experiences.
But I have never,.throughout my hi-fi-life,met a more fanatically interested maniac .
And I’ve met a lot of lunatics in this interest.
Frenchrooster,.I promise you,you would have loved to spend a weekend with us and Mr. Cableoholic.
And,.you probably had as I,got a lot of new “inputs”.
When we left.after meeting him for the first time, I thought…“What is this for fool I’ve met ”.
But now,.I just love him.
And despite my knowledge,.Mr.Cableoholic has opened my eyes more than once.
This also applies to others in our group.
Mr.Cableoholic is actually one of the “healthier” I’ve met in this interest.
And,.he’s like me,a music-lover…not an audiophile.
/Peder🙂
Peder, you can’t be a music lover - you like Bruce Springsteen!
@frenchrooster,…PS:And what is “healthier”.?
Is it to do as Darkebear,BertBird and others…
Put £29,350 on an ND555 with dual powersupply’s.
Or,.optimise what you have around your electronics.?
There are so many curtains that have been pulled away,.and contributed to better musicality,only because we have had the opportunity…to test different powercables and find the important synergy in our systems.
This has been possible through Mr.Cableoholic,.and we thank him for that.
/Peder🙂
I would enjoy very probably, but would want to make sauna, discover your food, walk in your beautiful area…and maybe 1 hour testing cables…
DB is not changing components or cables every week Peder. When installed optimally, he just enjoys.
@frenchrooster,…I can .
We can see it from a different approach-angle.
What’s the pleasure of having,.maybe five supercars in the garage. Ferrari,Lamborghini.Porsche etc,etc…
I can see many reasons,.why it would be “pleasant” .
In other words,.Frenchrooster,one thing does not rule out the other.
I think it can be dangerous to place people in different compartments,.especially if you don’t know them.
/Peder🙂
I agree I would enjoy testing a Chord Music from my nds, or a 5k powercord on my components. But I would enjoy doing it a few times not as often as you are doing.
But as you said, each one has different tastes and pleasures in life.
I would more be tempted high end stuff instead, as full stack DCS, Kondo gear, Continuum Caliburn turntable or Naim Statement.
But power cords, I you test some among the most expensive, why testing so many ?
@Frenchrooster,… I know,.I and Darkebear are probably pretty similar in this respect.
But I haven’t told you anything,.about what’s happened around Mr.Cableoholic the last two months.
He calls me at least once a day…at least,and I love it.
And still,.I don’t know everything that’s going on around him,about cables and other things.
He tells me,.and also asks me for advice,but I find it hard to remember everything that happens,.because it’s a lot .
Me and my best friend Mats,.we just shake our heads and laugh.
We visit him about every fourteen days,.and he always has something interesting going on.
It’s like you say,.completely insane,but incredibly fun.
And,.he knows that this thread exists,and that I call him Mr.Cableoholic.
So you don’t think,.I’m disrespectful to him.
He has his base-system,.but there are a lot of products circulating around this base-system.
• Just take this last week as an example:
This Monday,.he picked up a new prototype on a Swedish streamer for evaluation.
On the same day,.a couple of floorstanding speakers arrived that he bought.
On Friday,.came a package of Entreq’s best reference speaker-cables Atlantis.
Now on Monday,.a package from TimePortal USA,with their best reference speaker-cables Signature will arrive .
Forgot,.on Monday also came Furutech’s FI-E50 NCF contacts.
These you see at a picture in my previous post,.but then I have mounted them on Jorma Design Duality powercable.
I’ve probably forgotten something,.I usually do it when it comes to Mr.Cableoholic .
/Peder🙂
I haven’t written in this thread in two months,.but you probably understand,that there’s been a lot going on during this time .
How many unused cables does he have in his house? He probably doesn’t have time to sell them ?
There is some place left at my house, so I can help him. Just tell him to send me some Jorma
Pedar,
How do you rate the furutec NCF iec. I heard SQ improvements can be quite substantial with the NCF material and im thinking of getting the furutec slimline one for approx 60 pound.
Are they better than the oyaide ones.
Pedar you ought to try IEGO iec and plugs. I really rate their red copper iec.
@frenchrooster,…This statement is probably more true than you might think .
I usually joke to him and say,.can’t you look in your boxes,you might find something you don’t need,as I can get instead .
/Peder🙂
It’s funny to imagine some 10k cables taking dust in some hidden corners of his house. Perhaps we should invent a special rack to stock all his cables, like a rack for a woman who stocks thousands of shoes.
Something like that ?