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Limited quantity of DIY mains lead sets for £15 plus delivery. Please note you will need DIY skills to wire the plug and connector on.
This is the chance to make yourself a top quality audiophile grade mains power lead for beer money. Un-like our competitors on ebay we don’t fob customers off with mediocre standard wire, we use only the best CE compliant german cable from LAPP.
You will receive a UK mains plug fitted with a 13 amp silver plated fuse, 1 metre of LAPP screened cable with tinned copper braid and 3 cores of 2.5mm thick cable and finally a Kaiser german IEC connector which features on many famous brand mains power leads. The set can also be up-graded to silver plated connectors using the drop down menu.
Mains Leads
Martin McCabe –
Martin McCabe
Really easy to assemble. I ran it in overnight. Next morning sat down for a music session. Being a bit of a skeptic I wasn’t prepared to find that my most played LP’s and CD’s exhibited a greater sense of rhythm. Most noticeable when it was connected to the amplifier but… and this is the strange bit, plugging it into the CD transport or stand alone DAC exhibited a similar improvement although to a lesser degree. Crikey! and all for £10. I ordered 2 more.
drjtidey (verified owner) –
I have no idea what kind of sorcery this is, but where I expected maybe a little lowering of the noise floor, I was instead treated to an all-over improvement to my audio experience when replacing the stock cable to my amplifier with one of these (off one of the 6-gang extension chords in the same line). Of particular note, it was as though someone adjusted the proverbial lens on my stereo image.
Assembly was OK, although getting parting the screen and then getting it into the earth pin with the earth cable was a bit of a chore. The cable is also a really good level of flexible – it doesn’t acquire firm kinks like others*, sitting with a nice gentle bend and I even find the aesthetics quite desirable.
Required maybe 24 hours of use before it truly opened up, was genuinely disappointed at first but left it running over night and came back happy then while chilling in the evening I found myself looking up from my phone, being caught by the bafflingly clear sound of the music.
*I have also bought a Merlin Huntsman cable at ~twice the price (£30 for 1.7 m, pre-built). In comparison, it is an unpleasantly rigid cable, kinked from its packaged days. I’ve compared the two cable types in powering my CD player and the Huntsman sounds discernibly worse, muddy and fuzzy by comparison.
As a simple and cheap upgrade, I avidly recommend this product and have since bought more to connect up my remaining gear.
System:
Amplifier: Cambridge Audio CXA61
Speakers: B&W 606 (connected by Audioquest Rocket 22)
Streamer: Bluesound Node 2i (with Chord Company Clearway RCA)
CD Player: Marantz CD6006 UK Ed (Clearways again)
Misc: Tacima Parallel Mains Conditioner in plug ahead of amp on the aforementioned 6-gang and another passed between the sources.
troytech-20 (verified owner) –
Absolutely bizarre… I am shocked! I have recently changed some of the cabling in my system with a view to changing every bit. I was very, VERY sceptical when it came to mains cables. I’d read many articles and found it hard to believe the claims that many were making, and was edging close to the side of the non-believers. I bought two of these cables for my DAC and CD player. Both of these (from Musical Fidelity) have circuitry to clean up the mains, so I thought differences from cables would be minimal. I thought I’d go for cheap and dress it up with some braided sleeving and heat shrink… more an exerise in cosmetics than anything else. I wasn’t prepared for the result. Better soundstage and, most significantly, a cleaner and more detailed treble. As ever with hifi, it’s hard to describe the effect, words don’t quite cover it. I am very pleasantly surprised. Roksan amplifier and mains block next, and seeing how that don’t have the filtering circuitry, of the front-end components, I may spend a bit more!