Electrical technical question re hard-wired multiple socket extension

[Qwin]

Thank you Ken. The European manufacturer recommends, for optimum sound quality, to have no fuse on the wall plug, as they do in Europe. However this worries me though I guess it shouldn’t as the Uk does seem to be alone in having fused wall plugs.

Keep the fused plug at the connection to your wall socket it is there for safety, to help prevent fires, the European and American standards are not as tight, I'm sure you've seen American located movies of stuff going up in flames and leads both flying and in the walls catching fire. They tend not to do that here as the fuse blows in the plug first.

[Macca]

On the continent you can just poke the bare wires into the socket and it will work. Don't know about America, not tried it there.

[Barry]

On the continent you can just poke the bare wires into the socket and it will work. Don't know about America, not tried it there.

You can do the same here with some BS1363 sockets - I've done it myself, though it's not to be recommended!

[struth]

Used to do it all the time when testing tvs...saved putting a plug on(we had bare wire connectors of course but if you ran out you would do that.)