[Earthstick]

Has anyone had dealings with this company?

[Kalman Rubinson]

On 2 Nov 2006 01:08:48 GMT, "Earthstick"
wrote:

Has anyone had dealings with this company?
I know Crystal Cables.

Kal

[Shiner]

Earthstick wrote:
Has anyone had dealings with this company?

They are a "cottage industry" who make after market cables for huge
money. The owner is a great believer in all things snake oil and when
challanged cant even tell you why his cables work. His products do not
have the "CE" approval rating either.

I would highly suggest you avoid like the plague

[Earthstick]

I wondered what your experience of them was. The company I'm talking
about is

http://krystal-kables.com/

I bought one of their Mercury cables in 2005 and put it in a cupboard
shortly after as it did not do anything. While surfing around I came
across them again and their description of the cable is:

Not plated, layered, or bonded, here is a solid multicored silver power
cable we named "MERCURY".

I cut the cable up last night only to find it is nothing more than two
lengths of copper core coax where one core is live and the other
neutral. The earth is the copper shealths of each cable wound
together.

Solid silver, my a*se.

[Here in Ohio]

On 3 Nov 2006 01:02:56 GMT, "Earthstick"
wrote:

I wondered what your experience of them was. The company I'm talking
about is

http://krystal-kables.com/

I bought one of their Mercury cables in 2005 and put it in a cupboard
shortly after as it did not do anything. While surfing around I came
across them again and their description of the cable is:

Not plated, layered, or bonded, here is a solid multicored silver power
cable we named "MERCURY".

I cut the cable up last night only to find it is nothing more than two
lengths of copper core coax where one core is live and the other
neutral. The earth is the copper shealths of each cable wound
together.

Solid silver, my a*se.

That sounds about right for a company that makes "audiophile" cables.
Their claims about using silver are just as valid as their claims that
their cables sound better than ordinary cables.

[Earthstick]

Shiner wrote:
Earthstick wrote:
Has anyone had dealings with this company?

They are a "cottage industry" who make after market cables for huge
money. The owner is a great believer in all things snake oil and when
challanged cant even tell you why his cables work. His products do not
have the "CE" approval rating either.

I would highly suggest you avoid like the plague

Shiner, I bought one almost 2 years ago and forgot about it after I
realised what it was. But I came across the site again then I thought
I should make people aware of them. There is even a review from some
kind of publication.

[Steven Sullivan]

Earthstick wrote:
I wondered what your experience of them was. The company I'm talking
about is

http://krystal-kables.com/

I bought one of their Mercury cables in 2005 and put it in a cupboard
shortly after as it did not do anything. While surfing around I came
across them again and their description of the cable is:

Not plated, layered, or bonded, here is a solid multicored silver power
cable we named "MERCURY".

I cut the cable up last night only to find it is nothing more than two
lengths of copper core coax where one core is live and the other
neutral. The earth is the copper shealths of each cable wound
together.

Solid silver, my a*se.

You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

___
-S
"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy,
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason

[Earthstick]

You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

But I can prove that the cable is actually copper not the advertised
silver.

I hope you are posting in jest.

[Harry Lavo]

"Earthstick" wrote in message
...
You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

But I can prove that the cable is actually copper not the advertised
silver.

I hope you are posting in jest.

Since you said your cables are several years old, is it not possible that
the manufacturer has changed the technology used in the cable and is
currently actually using silver? Would it not make sense to find out before
slandering them on usenet?

[Earthstick]

Harry Lavo wrote:
"Earthstick" wrote in message
...
You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

But I can prove that the cable is actually copper not the advertised
silver.

I hope you are posting in jest.

Since you said your cables are several years old, is it not possible that
the manufacturer has changed the technology used in the cable and is
currently actually using silver? Would it not make sense to find out before
slandering them on usenet?
The cable was described as solid silver when I purchased one, the
actual item was copper. If they have changed their technology then it
is only to meet the claims they have always made.

Really how can they advertise solid silver and then sell copper? It is
no accident to strip a coax cable and solder copper flex cord onto the
copper core of the coax that you just stripped and not notice that the
cable is copper.

[Steven Sullivan]

Earthstick wrote:
You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

But I can prove that the cable is actually copper not the advertised
silver.

I hope you are posting in jest.

Your instincts are correct. ;

___
-S
"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy,
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason

[Harry Lavo]

"Earthstick" wrote in message
...
Harry Lavo wrote:
"Earthstick" wrote in message
...
You're using silly 'objective' standards here... true audiophiles know
that science can't measure what we hear. It may measure like copper
but if it *sounds* like silver, that's what matters. You can't prove
it doesn't!

But I can prove that the cable is actually copper not the advertised
silver.

I hope you are posting in jest.

Since you said your cables are several years old, is it not possible that
the manufacturer has changed the technology used in the cable and is
currently actually using silver? Would it not make sense to find out
before
slandering them on usenet?
The cable was described as solid silver when I purchased one, the
actual item was copper. If they have changed their technology then it
is only to meet the claims they have always made.

Really how can they advertise solid silver and then sell copper? It is
no accident to strip a coax cable and solder copper flex cord onto the
copper core of the coax that you just stripped and not notice that the
cable is copper.

I am sorry, I thought you were responding to another post that mentioned the
silver claim, and said you owned the cables, having bought them several
years ago. It was not clear that they were making the "silver" claim at the
time you bought them. I agree that if they are claiming one construction
and giving you another, they are fraudulent.