Dear Friends,

As much in an attempt tp tidy up the cable mess, as actually to enhance the performance of my set, I bought a four way 30 amp mains junction box - high quality brass screw fittings crimp the wires together directly - from my local hardware store. The job of removing three Crabtree plugs and adding a short length of extra flex between the box and one of the Crabtrees took about twenty minutes and is actually only a little harder than wiring a plug in the first place.

Result! Thought the effect is marginal, the music seems even less box-bound - freer. Thought I'd share that with you as so much gets written about it, and the idea is SO simple. It has also really tidied up the wire mess!

Fredrik Fiske

How simple can it be? My hydra consists of only 3 naim power cords. They share one mains plug /German Phonossophie/. This goes into a wall socket with a 10mm2 dedicated spur. The best hydra so far.

Emil

Dear Emil,

Is this a "special" plug with large connestions for the wires (and so on), as I am sure that you could not really get more than two flexes into one UK three pin Crabtree? Anyway I am not about to use a non-standard plug in the place of the Crabtree.

On the effect, I posted the begining of the thread only minutes after firing up. I am not so sure the effect is marginal. It's rather good. More body and solidity somehow, or it seems like that. But there is not a cat in hell's chance of me doing a spur, at least at this house, but I've no doubt that there is something good in it if you can get it installed.

Fredrik Fiske