READER Ewan MacGregor writes to us about “hi-fi bunkum and hocus-pocus”. It seems that audiophiles who fancy they have especially sensitive ears have been upgrading the leads that connect their equipment to the mains power socket.
“Am I the only one who thinks that this fails to take into account the bog-standard wiring from the fuse box to the socket?” MacGregor asks. “What good can it do to spend 拢100 or more on the last metre of cable from the socket to the hi-fi?”
We have been here before. Not so long ago, hi-fi journals reported that people…
