John,

It takes a true man to admit he may have been mistaken, i hope you put this revelation to good use and find out why you heard a difference.

Electrohead, yes I do find it hard to believe. We all heard the difference because it was mainly a level difference and some lack of extreme top end, maybe down to it being one of the cheapest and thinnest leads out there.

Unfortunately comparing Pluto's Maplin £7.50 Jobie's to the 'total top end' £500 I could not tell a difference, but whotslice could - just.

I would like to do a spectrum and level analyses of the two bottom end cables and actually measure the difference. The gear I have will measure 30Hz to 110MHz and level to 0.1dB  

We live and learn! 

I've said my bit on the appropriate thread, basically, there was a difference but it was'nt mind-blowing.

Have you read Dave Oliver's report Dave?

Regards

Hi wotslice, do you still have the cheapy you bought along?

Sure I can get Pluto's lead, then I will measure them 'side by side' and report the results graphically for all to see, that is if Dave goes along with it! 

John, I've found them, will post tomorrow/Wed

I've got some Straight-thru ics as well which didn't make a blind bit of difference to me, do you want to measure these as well? as I'd be intrigued to know the results.

Cheers

If I knew what a Straight-thru ic was then I could measure it, but as I don't then I cant.

Thanks for the leads I will get Pluto's this week and do some tests, not sure how to put images on this site yet but I'm sure Dave will sort that.

John... 

I got them off ebay the claim was they are better than "expensive" but a fraction of the price, they had a 30 hour burn in period and even came with their own burn in CD !.  They cost about £80, there was a thread about them on thissite some months ago -  I could hear no difference between them and cheaper Van Damme interconnects.

Cheers

Sorry Mate but 'I got them off ebay' what did you get off eBay, £80 is to my mind expensive, err what is a 'burn in period', I thought we had already ascertained that there was no such thing as 'burn in'.

However if you can't hear a difference then I'm sure no one else will, good to hear the admission that you cannot hear the difference between all leads. This thread is now sounding more like a wine tasting party than serious Hi Fi, but maybe the two are quite close, if not in sound then certainly in 'mindset'

John...

John you've misunderstood the post:

"Straight-thru" is a make of Interconnect which seemed to be only available on Ebay. The reference to burn-in was just to let you know that that these cables have been "set up" as per the supplier's instructions - nothing to do with my views on burn-in.

I've always said a I can hear a diiference between SOME cables AND that the difference is not necessarilly better, I'f you've read my previous posts on the cable test thread I've always made this clear.  

Cheers

John, the cheepie interconnects are in the post to you.

 Regards

Many thanks, I will get Pluto's this week and let the mayhem begin!

John...