lol Thought I would try and brighten up your Monday http://www.whathifi.com/russ-andrews...ampaign=buffer

Think the reviewer has been on the magic mushrooms.

I can't believe that was written as anything other than a spoof. Are you sure it wasn't written as an April Fools joke?

I thought it was so ridiculous that I did a bit of Googling to see if it had cropped up anywhere else. Having found this rubbishing of it dating back to 2006, I can only think that the company which makes it devotes serious amount of its PR budget into bribing unscrupulous journalists and reviewers.

http://www.badscience.net/2006/01/so...-kettle-leads/

BTW... it's worth reading some of the comments that follow after the article

If you think £350 quid on a bunch of mains sockets is a bit steep then how about 1500 quid for the mains lead to plug into it (that's each not for all six by the way )

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...GBP&pf_id=1581

And if you fancy a laugh read up on the Cryogenic treatment they use on the plugs.

And if that is not mad enough for you how about a 25 quid mains fuse with hand polished end caps!

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...P&pf_id=10165A

After a hectic day, this has cheered me up no end.

Snake oil salesmen have nothing on "Russ Andrews" and the gullible idiots that buy this stuff. When i was working at the CES show in Las Vegas I was constantly surprised by the queues of people desperate to spend fortunes on mediocre products from Monster Cables - $160 for a HDMI cable with "deeper blacks" anyone??

Wonder what the quality is of the ring main cabling in the house?

In the days when we all had turntables, and there were lots of things to play with, cartridges, tracking weights, bias compensation etc, nobody mentioned cables or distribution panels. The arrival of the CD, with no user variables, seems to have spawned a strange industry of dubious and expensive add ons. One magazine was testing USB cables recently for perceived aural improvements. There seems to be a lot of D/A convertors around, some of which probably have the same chipset in them as the user's equipment and therefore probably don't have any effect even if the user thinks they do.
I'm sure once the magazine reviewer hears the price of some of these products he can hear the improvement they make before he has taken them out of their packing.

Such doubters, I recently used some Russ Andrews Digital Polish and I can tell everyone here that it produces a wider cleaner sound on my Alba Surround System.

It's very reasonable for the performance improvement, £175

Also the Russ Andrews Water Rehydrating System is a quality device, it's a special deal for August so hurry (£5699)
Simply add water to the hydrator (below) and within seconds there is a full 3litres of pure fresh drinking water.

http://i.imgur.com/crBy7ni.jpg

Don't forget to buy the £25 / 13amp fuse to go with it
http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...YGQOONCPJGLBPC

Unfriggingbelievable!
If you didn't know any better you'd think you're reading an advert from Viz magazine.

Still good luck to the bloke who is making a ton of money while he dreams up more shite to sell to mugs

But it is a super fuse

Well I thought I'd seen some batsh1t crazy stuff but this just takes the proverbial biscuit, hell it takes the entire packet!

http://www.russandrews.com/product.a...GBP&pf_id=5410

Would you spend 20 odd quid on a bottle of spray to improve the sound quality of your CDs? Maybe, sounds plausible doesn't it? But get this, you spray it on the LABEL side. Yes that's right the side the laser never sees.

Words don't exist to explain just how mad that is!

Russ Andrews are not a huge company, but they make a reasonable living.

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/01968621

Luxurious HQ:
http://i.imgur.com/AArW3ST.jpg


The only issue that I have with all this is the connection with various so-called hi-fi magazines who rave about their stuff. I think this should be investigated.

Its a placebo effect isn't it? If you sell a 350 mains block to someone on the promise that it will make their system sound better and they believe it does then who are we to mock?

(he he he)

Just replaced the 2 inches of speaker cable on my Binatone radio with a special ultra expensive version. The sound is now less veiled with improved rhythmic timing, it has restored the musicality it lacked before.

If only they made a solution for ear wax that all their customers seem to have!

Russ Andrews Ear Wax invigorator only £50 per 100ml bottle. Restores lost fidelity.

Hmm not a particularly money making company then, sure he's not in debt but it's far from being a million pound enterprise.

I'm slightly relieved he isn't (apparently) mega wealthy due to his somewhat shyster products.

If you Google Peter Belt you will see he was even weirder than Andrews. He sold bits of stick on tinfoil that were supposed to improve your system.