Truly amazed

[The Grand Wazoo]

Ha! I knew I'd getchyer Alex.
There's all sorts of stuff on that site - take a look at the Boffer sister site where they reveal a new much reduced bargain with limited availability at 11:59 pm every night. could be a laptop or it could be a covert recording device cunningly concealed in what looks like a lipstick!

Also appealing to my bargain sniffing proclivities is the thing they called the 'Bag of Crap' but has now changed into the 'Sack of Crap' - One minute to midnight on an unspecified day close to Chrimbo, they unleash the sack of crap offer which is 50 items. Here's what you get for a fiver postage:

"The rules of the sack of crap are as follows.

1) You expect nothing more than 25 crappy items.

2) You should not whine and complain when some people`s crap turns out to be less crappier.

3) You should take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.

We make absolutely no promises about the quality or the desirability of these bags or their contents, except to promise that their quality will be low and their desirability will be non-existent. We will take your hard earned cash and send you literal crap in return.

Your sack will contain at least 25 items.

At least one of the 25 items you will receive will count as the sack so in other words one of the items you will receive will be a sack or bag of some description. It may be a laptop bag, a school bag, a blow up beach bag, my Alexander Mcqueen handbag .If you are really unlucky you may get a pack of bin bags or a colostomy and they will count as your sack!!"

People have posted videos of them opening their sack - there's usually something pretty valuable in there -and the lucky one or two get something like an ipod, computer monitor or something like that.
The address of the website is:

http://www.crapshop.co.uk



Enjoy playing with your cables Alex

[keiths]

The address of the website is:

http://www.crapshop.co.uk

Proprietor one Reginald Iolanthe Perrin I presume ?



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[Stratmangler]

passed on the Ear Pick Earwax Remover though - yeuch! - some others might find it useful though - could be the next big upgrade!)

This device is quite alarming - you shouldn't attempt to put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal

[synsei]

Righto fellas, I've had a 2m pair of these Belkin cables(same as Alex MCR's) sitting around at home doing sod all for about 5 months now. I bought 'em from eBay simply due to the description: "Double shielded, Silver soldered, balanced cable construction etc, etc", they looked rather good too, and for £2.99 for 2x2m lengths I thought, "Why the hell not".



After stumbling over this thread tonight I whipped out the cables above which cost £11.99 from Gear City in Hong Kong and are no mean performers in their own right, and slotted the Belkin's in between my Pre/Power amps.

I began with an excellent lossless recording of ELO's Discovery played via VLC player on my netbook which is connected to my Caiman via an excellent quality Belkin shielded USB lead with gold plated connectors. First impressions are mixed: Clarity and definition throughout the frequency range is excellent. As noted in an earlier post, drum skins in particular took on an almost ethereal quality, as if the drummer was sitting in the room with me. Depth and breadth of the soundstage is staggering and can only be put down to the Belkin leads. The theory as to how cables can make such a difference is beyond me, but these Belkin's certainly do. As commented previously, I've lost a little bass weight, but it is so much more tuneful.

I then moved on to the Happy Feet OST (don't laugh, it's a terrific production and a fun listen too, hehe), which is also a lossless recording (wav). This fared much better. There is some excellent percussion recorded on this album and it was delivered with amazing clarity and impact. Both Mrs 'S' and myself were tapping away with our (webbed?) feet to every beat. I'm currently listening to Aerial by Kate Bush. This is a 320kbs mpeg file and it too is sounding new and improved, although not to such an extent as the two lossless recordings. I'm sure this isn't down to the Belkins though. It's probably due to the difference in quality between the two formats.

I should qualify these comments by saying I have only been running these IC's for about 3hrs so I am fully expecting further improvements over the next 16 to 17 hours. I have another 2 pairs on order from a seller on the 'Bay so I will offer further insights once they have arrived and been installed in my system...

[Alex_UK]

Curses, you pesky lumberjack, I'd have been alright if it wasn't for you and your tempting links... pair of each duly ordered

Well, cables arrived today. One was in a proper Retail pack, and is the 2.4m (8ft) one, but there is no mention of them being "silver" series or any reference to silver soldering or anything on the pack. The cables are grey in colour, with a kind of "net" covering - exactly the same as Alex's (Magiccarpetride) photo.

The second cable just came in a polythene bag, and was supposed to be the 4.9m pair, but in actual fact they are exactly the same length as the 2.4m pair... which is slightly annoying as I didn't really want either 2.4m pair, although I wanted to have a play, and the 4.9m one was going to replace a crappy cable from TV to stereo and so needed to be that long... Oh, and the tadpole "mobile phone alert thingy" doesn't work, either! Can't be bothered faffing around complaining (in any case I hadn't realised how bloody thick these cables are - running one from TV to amp and still maintaining some domestic aesthetic isn't going to happen!)

So, not overly impresses with bigoffers, but then I suppose there's no such thing as a free lunch, and 2 x decent quality 2.4m interconnects for less than £15 delivered isn't to be sniffed at, I guess. Not sure I can be bothered to pull the system apart to try them, so I might stick them in the second system which is easier to mess around with, or wait until we have the wood floor fitted and I have to take it all apart then.

[Effem]

Well, cables arrived today. One was in a proper Retail pack, and is the 2.4m (8ft) one, but there is no mention of them being "silver" series or any reference to silver soldering or anything on the pack. The cables are grey in colour, with a kind of "net" covering - exactly the same as Alex's (Magiccarpetride) photo.

They differ from the cables I have here

Mine are covered in a WHITE "net" and have WHITE mouldings on all the plugs

I did say there are TWO variants of this interconnect; The grey one I believe is a plain RCA audio interconnect and the "Silver Series" has the white shroud with white plugs. Mind you, it also seems all the latest "Silver Series" interconnects have grey mouldings on the plugs, so I am confused as heck now

[Welder]

Are you sure you lot are allowed out shopping without mums

If you look at the cables; either type, what the cables are is written on the jacket (that’s the bit under the anti scuff mesh)

[Effem]

Are you sure you lot are allowed out shopping without mums

If you look at the cables; either type, what the cables are is written on the jacket (that’s the bit under the anti scuff mesh)

I have looked and then looked some more, but I am donald ducked if I can see any markings under the braid

[Reid Malenfant]

Just remember, white is right

[Jac Hawk]

ok guys these cables are back on ebay again but from a different seller, i ordered a set, they arrived the next day in a sealed plastic display box, they are light gey in colour, and have a mesh covering each cable, after reading the blurb on the back of the box i notice they are silver soldered here's the link http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BELKIN-Pure-AV...item519059168a