Mains doodads

hi,
found this....
http://www.britishaudio.co.uk/purehard.html

and was wondering if anyone had and direct experience / ideas / crackpot theories about this kind of thing.

there is a picture on the british audio products online shop - under interconnects for some reason. here http://store.securehosting.com/stores/sh204131/shophome.php
select interconnects at the right and scroll down about 2/3rds of the way.

cheers


julian

 

It is possible that rectification and consequently demodulation could occur at these junctions, but it would be at extremely low level compared to the demodulation that occurs in the actual electronics.

However, it is not clear to me that their box is offering anything particularly significant. Certainly nothing that would be worth forgoing the convenience of plugs and sockets, and certainly not the safety of fuses.

 

Yeh I've got one. Nice, solid thing it is. The main benefits as I understand them are hardwiring (elimination of unecessary contacts) and RF shielding of the (admittedly small) unshielded cable ends. The connectors are very beefy, so useful for connecting large diameter power cables. They are a compression clamp type fitting, so potentially less risk of damaging the cable end and better chance of a clean connection than with a normal screw type connection as you'd find in a plug.

I can't really comment on the improvements to sound quality as I installed it in my system in parallel with a complete loom of homemade power cables. The whole lot made a huge difference, but I suspect 99%+ of this was down to the cables rather than the distribution unit.

As I was re-doing all the power anyway, the cost was (almost) justified for the convenience as I would otherwise have needed to spend £ on some form of half decent distribution unit anyway and a host of chunky plugs (the cable I used is too thick for most plugs) which I couldn't find at a sensible price. I wouldn't generally recommend it at £145. Maybe £50...

:kneel:

 

£145 for 36 din rail terminals (43p each) 12 cable glands (51p each) a metal box (£20 max) and a bit of flex,mmmm nearly £100 profit

 

thanks guys, i'll probably give it a miss then.
cheers

julian

 

looks just like an Olson block to me (not the "sound fantastic" one)
http://www.olson.co.uk/standard.htm