Really Ace Value cabling..... :)

[Zak33]

Thanks to Flibb who posted this in the Bargain Hunt......you lot need to see this site

How cheap? Monster cheap.....and spend over a tenner....free delivery

S Video, Scart, Oxygen Free Copper....etc etc

there is NO REASON not to use good quality stuff now

Ace site

http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/dynamic/home.html

But beware....Its a bit like going to see the Play.com site

dangerous on your wallet

[fondie]

have bought various bits and bobs from them in the past, never had any problems.

[Bindibadgi]

(y)

thx.

[Zak33]

quite amazing...the more I read of their site the more I want
my wallet is gonna die

[Rave]

Originally Posted by Zak33

there is NO REASON not to use good quality stuff now

I have a reason- I can't tell the difference. Not in a blind test. Still, the no brand cables on their site are pretty good value, stuff like the S-Video cables. IXOS are a ripoff whoever you buy them from.

What annoys me is that people will spend £40 or more on cables in a £300 hi-fi. No, you fools! Get better speakers or headphones, they make way more difference.

Sorry if I sound like I'm disparaging your thread Zak. I just want to make it clear to people that £10 cables are good enough unless you're running a system worth several grand and you have money to burn.

Rich :¬)

[Flibb]

I didnt notice anybody talking about buying expensive cables just good ones. Or finally getting cable that meens you can put your gear where you want it, a 4m optical for £8, they also do long length of various other stuff. I personally could use a 10m 3.5mm jack-phono so I can record audio from my hifi to the PC, with that length shielding could be handy, but at £8.50 im not even going to bother looking at cheap cable.
Changing the cables on a £300 dixons special probably isnt going to make any difference, as most of the £300 went in to the flashing lights and revolving control panel, but changing the cables on a £300 seperates system often will. Also in my case I get stuff second hand, this includes Sennheiser HD590 headphones for £15, my AV amp which was free and my AV speakers which were £130 (retail at £450). A lot of this kind of stuff doesent come with cables. I prefer to connect my £700 AV setup (which I paid £130 for) with good cables I wont have to replace, rather than use bell wire and the total cost of the cables was £30 inc the optical for the dvd, I also get to flog the spare speaker cable to the max power lads for their in car stuff.
Flibb

[unrealrocks]

Copyed from other thread:

Mmm, nice prices ... shame correctly setup mains cable gives better performance for speakers than alot of those so called 'pro' and 'referance' leads . Fair enough on the line level cables though, gonna need some more for my new home cinema

[Flibb]

The pro leads are just bulk ones, I was looking at making some but at those prices cant be arsed, easier to buy them.
Flibb

[Rave]

Originally Posted by Flibb

I didnt notice anybody talking about buying expensive cables just good ones.

That's the thing mate, I can't tell the difference between the cable you get in the box with a new piece of gear and an expensive one, and that was on a £500 Arcam amp and some World Audio KLS3s (which are ****ing wicked kit speakers).

Or finally getting cable that meens you can put your gear where you want it, a 4m optical for £8, they also do long length of various other stuff.

Well, I pretty much said as much myself when I said the no-brand cables are pretty good value, and perhaps as the length goes up there's more of a noticeable difference between good and bad cable, I haven't tried that.

Changing the cables on a £300 dixons special probably isnt going to make any difference, as most of the £300 went in to the flashing lights and revolving control panel, but changing the cables on a £300 seperates system often will.

If you can honestly say that having done a proper double blind test then fair enough. I have and I can't.

Also in my case I get stuff second hand, this includes Sennheiser HD590 headphones for £15,

What a deal! Where do you get this stuff? I have HD600s BTW

Rich :¬)

[Flibb]

If your after cheap stuff watch out for richersounds doing a deal, especially on headphones, loads of people upgrade and sell of their old stuff. The amp I was just lucky, somebody at work was given it when his hifi friend upgraded, he passed it on to me as he didnt know what it was. AC Speakers were a private deal from a non selling item on ebay, reason they didnt sell was they aint usually found in UK, mainly europe, luckilly he lived nearby so could test them. My main music system was a richer sounds jobby, combination of denon, sony, yamaha and JPW. Again was just lucky with that, did a demo on the main bits, decided to buy them and they forgot to charge me for the upgrades from the standard price. Richers were doing the HD600 or might have been HD650 for £50 at one point, so there were loads of the lower models going cheap on the AV forums.
Flibb

[Rave]

Originally Posted by Flibb

Richers were doing the HD600 or might have been HD650 for £50 at one point, so there were loads of the lower models going cheap on the AV forums.

Hmm, well if so I missed 'em. I read What Hi-Fi as often as I can to see what they're doing. I started off with HD565s for £50- I used them several hours a day for a year, what a barg. Then I moved on to some HD580s for £70, which were a noticeable upgrade. Finally I got the HD600s for £100, which are a tiny bit better than the 580s but not much. My friend still has the 580s, I should get them back off him really, I could do with a spare pair for TV etc.

I was hoping that as the special headphone deals went higher and higher up the Sennheiser range that I'd be able to get a pair of electrostatics for £200 last year. Didn't happen though.

Rich :¬)

[Flibb]

My local richersounds in in sevenoaks and thers a big 7oaks hifi or sound and vision or whatever the name is this month. Anyway the richersounds is about the size of a standard bog cubicle and has queues every weekend, at 7oaks hifi the workers outnumber the customers normally 3-1. I was after a minidisc player a few years back went to richers think it was £120, went to 7oaks hifi £180. Asked the bloke he then slags off richers but ends up dropping his price to match. So can be worth asking in their shops as well, 7oaks dont sell any portable stuff anymore (might jus be my branch), again asked bod why reply is ooo they kept breaking, not anything to do with the competition then, thats a relief. I was also after a bog standard headphone extension cable for the PC's mic input, I explained what it was for a £10 headphone mic jobby for playing games, bloke brings back a £25 cable with volume on it, strangely he didnt get a sale.
Flibb

[Legin76]

I just noticed that we were getting a lot of sales from you guys over the last couple of months and thought I would pop by and say thanks.

You may also be interested to know that we have just reduced the prices of virtually our entile Profigold range.

[Howard]

Hmmm. My heavy-duty cat-5 cabling is excellent. I doubt I'll notice any difference in a blind test if I bought some proper stuff. I thought about it, but decided not to waste my money. Having proper interconnects however is always wise. Eliminates interference.
Scart (or SVHS or whatever interface you use) cables and digital/analog audio cables are the most important. Higher quality cables = less interference!

[Zak33]

Originally Posted by Legin76

I just noticed that we were getting a lot of sales from you guys over the last couple of months and thought I would pop by and say thanks.

You may also be interested to know that we have just reduced the prices of virtually our entile Profigold range.

Pleasure dude....nice site....good prices....

so long as you dont go on a pimping spree......

we shall hold you in high regard

Unless you wanna advertise with us

See the big boss man...David....

I'm just a peasant

[Legin76]

Originally Posted by Zak33

Pleasure dude....nice site....good prices....

so long as you dont go on a pimping spree......

we shall hold you in high regard

Unless you wanna advertise with us

See the big boss man...David....

I'm just a peasant

Thanks... I'm all pimped out now Unless my sig counts.

I'll be sticking around though. Seems to be some good threads etc.

I take it your wallet survived your earlier visits???? If so we need to find a way to finnish it off... hehe