Well I am in the same boat. Just bought some very Furutech look-a-like rhodium carbon fibre RCA plugs from China.
Got to say the quality at £35 for 4 is unbelievable, though. The eBay seller just got banned!!!
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Well I am in the same boat. Just bought some very Furutech look-a-like rhodium carbon fibre RCA plugs from China.
Got to say the quality at £35 for 4 is unbelievable, though. The eBay seller just got banned!!!
long arm of the law society .Quote:
Originally Posted by User211
Aye these amps do look very similar... wonder if there is a connection?
It was a bit of a tough call deciding to pull the trigger on this purchase as, while the Hifi Plus review is incredibly positive, it gets roasted by What Hifi! http://www.whathifi.com/carat/a57/review ... "The £1000 amplifier sector is fearsomely contested, and the Carat gets eaten alive".
In my view, Hifi+ gets it right and WTF lives up to its name. :D
... to be fair, IME What Hifi often gets it right, but is sometimes so far from credibility that the mind boggles! :scratch:
I've had a very similar experience recently with a pair of Sony XBA-H1 IEMs. A great set of 'phones, but they get roasted by WTF and lauded elsewhere.
Not often you see a bad review in a mag these days so that's interesting. They really must have hated it!
Yup. I am skeptical of the rhodium content given the price.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
They look to be unbranded Acrolink with a very similar model number to £240 worth of Furutech plugs. Other eBay seller's have them but at a higher price.
The Acrolink name shows signs of one being there - probably polished off.
Rhodium doesn't have the highest conductivity, but it is hard wearing. That's why it's used as a plating for wristwatches etc.. Being part of the platinum group of metals, rhodium is not cheap.Quote:
Originally Posted by User211
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I would not be surprised if the rhodium content, was, in fact, zero. Which begs the question WTF is it?:lol:
I'm going to connect it to some Furutech cable (that is genuine, believe it or not) that I know well and already own in another set of interconnects. If the plugs obviously suck I will know very quickly.
In my view it is all pants. Amps that do well in one system don't in another. The value of amp reviews is close to worthless because there are waaayyy ttoooo mmmaaannnnyyy vvaarriiaabllles.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Can you provide a link to the eBay seller?
Suspect he is using "rhodium" simply as a title: in much the same way that I suspect that very little, if any, tellurium copper is used in Tellurium-Q cables. But I could be wrong.
No as I said he is banned.
They are unquestionably Acrolink CF-102(R). Google it. You'll get hits.
Here are some actual photos of mine. They are seriously nice and weighty. And they look fab I think.
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...psdb7ciora.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...psehqrs39i.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5sjdnr9w.jpg