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Why cables?

When I first got the Hi-fi bug I was 16 and was promised a small fortune at the time as an insurance policy was about to mature. I needed a stereo system. We never had so much as a Dansette record player in the house until I was 14, then my Dad got his Ferguson with Garrad turntable. With the promise of £120 I bought Hi-fi News. The first thing that caught my eye was an advert for the National Panasonic Direct Drive turntable at £150. It later evolved to the Technics SL110 which I eventually got 35 years later and still have it today with an SME arm. Not everyones cup of tea but it does it for me. So I studied and studied the print off the Hifi News and even bought the next months issue and drew up a list of kit I wanted but it was always more than my budget, then nothing changes for the Audiophile. Come my 17th the insurance man gives me a cheque for £180, no-one had mentioned bonuses, so I settled for a Dual turntable and an Armstrong 521 amp and a set of headphones, and bought speaker 6 months later. Oh yes the cables were lamp wire and old bootlaces with moulded RCAs.

Woolworths were my past cable suppliers for years. I first took cables seriously about 10 years ago when I picked up some Watt3/Puppy2s from the Hifi Trading Station in Peterborough and Sacha Meakin threw in some CS112 cable which set against my twin and earth opened the door. The Wilsons also had a lot to do with it but they let me see how much I held the system back using 2.5mm. From there my career with cables was founded.

My customers ask my current system and what cables I use.

I used to be a Krell man, flirted with Mark Levinson but now I am definately a Mcintosh man, a valve Mcintosh man. I still use my SL110 but I prefer the convenience of the dCS digital system. Do I feel your eyebrows raising? Clinical digital feeding warm cuddly Macs. Well it works for me. Speaker are Avalon Eidolons which were previously owned but the owner never broke them in. They sounded terrible when I got them and a year later they eventually got there. I have the fortune to try out most of the cables I sell and really do suggest you spend as much as you can afford but in the right proportions, so to pick individual favourites may be misleading from the brands that I sell. However, the new Nordost ODINs are out of this world, not cheap, but astonishing. How do they do it, I don't know but they do. Now I have to save up.

Favourite Music, what do I listen to?

When someone comes around for a demo I dread I might frighten them off as my taste is so veried and I do not like to offend. So if I list a few names it will give you a good idea. Zappa, Brian Wilson, Joe Walsh, Steely Dan, Grandaddy, Cream, Jan & Dean, Neil Young, Jimmy Barnes, Cold Chisel, The Who, Adrian Belew, Midlake, to name a few but these tend to be played more than most.. Classical: Verase, Bethoven, Misorgsky, Pachebel, Albinoni, Rossini, Stravinsky and Zappa. Country: Don Walker.

Many thanks to Wikipedia for the biographies

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