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UHF14 POWER
BAR
Most power bars knock
voltage down, and
generate more noise
than a kindergarten
class. The UHF14 doesn’t. It
features a 1.5m 14- gauge shielded
cable, Hubbell hospital grade fourplex, and
Furutech gold-on-copper wall plug. ORDER: UHF14-PB, $239
Need it longer? Add $20 per metre extra
MORE POWER TO YOU
Better access to
electrical power.
Change your 77-cent
duplex outlets for
these Hubbell hospital
grade outlets. Insert a
plug and it just snaps
in. A tighter internal
connection as well.
The cheapest improvement you can make to your system.
ORDER: AC-DA Hubbell duplex outlet, $23.95
ORDER: AC-D20 20A duplex, red color, $28.95
INSTANT CIRCUIT CHECKER
Plug it into an AC outlet, and the three lights can
indicate a missing ground, incorrect polarity, switched
wires — five problems in all. The first thing we did
after getting ours was phone the electrician.
ORDER: ACA-1, Instant Circuit Checker, $21
HOSPITAL GRADE CONNECTION
When we put a quality
AC plug on our kettle,
boiling time dropped by 90
seconds! One of the best AC
plug we have ever seen is
the Hubbell 8215 hospital
grade plug. It connects to wires under high pressure, and it
should last forever.
ORDER: AC-P2, Hubbell 8215 cord plug, $25.95
Amazingly good at a
much lower price are
these two cord plugs
from Eagle. Male and
female versions.
ORDER: AC-P1 Eagle male cord plug, $5.95
ORDER: AC-PF Eagle female cord plug, $5.95
Making your own power cords for your equipment? You’ll need
the hard-to-get IEC 320 connector to fit the gear.
ORDER: AC-P3 10 ampere IEC 320 plug, $9.95
ORDER: AC-P4 15 ampere Schurter IEC 320 plug, $18.95
IEC ON YOUR DVD PLAYER
Why do big name DVD players come with those
tiny two-prong plugs for their
cords? A good shielded power
cable will do wonders!
ORDER: DVD-A, GutWire
adapter, $39
THE AUDIOPHILE STORE 57
UHF 14 POWER CORD
No budget for a premium cable? Make your own! We use several
ourselves. Foil-shielded, to avoid picking up or transmitting noise.
Assembled or as a kit. With Hubbell 8215 hospital grade plug and
Schurter 15 A IEC 320 connector. For digital players, preamplifiers,
tuners, and even medium-powered amplifiers.
ORDER: UHF14-1.5K, 14 gauge power cable kit, $74.95
ORDER: UHF14-1.5 14 gauge cable, assembled, $99.95
Need it longer? Add $20 per metre extra
20-AMPERE POWER CORD
This is the one with the big IEC connectors whose contacts are
rotated the other way. It’s for certain large power amps. Marinco 20
amp hospital-grade wall plug, which fits only a 20 amp wall outlet.
Available with a 15 amp Hubbell wall plug instead.
ORDER: UHF14-20-1.5 cable, assembled, $99.95
UHF/
FURUTECH
POWER CORD
We were so pleased with
the performance of our
UHF14 cable that we
wanted to hear it with the upscale Furutech connectors. Wow! Pure
copper IEC connector and copper/gold wall plug.
ORDER: UHF14F-1.5K, 14 gauge power cable kit, $149.95
ORDER: UHF14F-1.5 14 cable, assembled, $174.95
GUTWIRE G CLEF POWER CABLE
Multiple shielding, including external electrostatic shield connected
to a clip. Used by UHF. Length 1.7 m, longer cords on order. G Clef 2
has 195 conductors, 3 shields providing 98% shielding. Available
optionally with 20A IEC plug (for amplifiers requiring special plug)
ORDER: GGC G Clef, Square 1.7m, $385
ORDER: GGC-20 G Clef, Square, 20 amp 1.7m, $385
BETTER DIGITAL
IMPROVED CD WITH FINYL
The maker of Finyl claims it reduces surface
reflections and provides a higher contrast image for
the laser cell of your player. Use it just once. We get a
lot of repeat orders on it. One kit can treat over 200
discs. Or order the refill.
ORDER: F-1 Finyl kit, $40.00
ORDER: F-1R Finyl refill, $35.00
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MOON 300D DAC
It wowed us so much we got it for our reference system. It
has 24/192 resolution on coax and optical, 16/48 on USB. Its
performance astonished us, and we’re not easily astonished. The
full review is in UHF No. 89.
To sweeten the deal, we’re offering bundles on our two Atlas
digital cables, in the favored 1.5 m length. By getting the bundle,
save on an Atlas Opus cable (usually $239).
ORDER: 300D, $1399 while stocks last
ORDER: 300D + Opus digital cable, $1499
ORDER: 300D + Mavros digital cable, $1799
Get another bargain: with the purchase of a 300D, get the
UHF14F shielded power cable with Furutech connectors
(assembled, one per purchase). Instead of $174.95, pay just
$124.95.
ORDER: UHF14F-1.5 (bundled only), $124.95
AN IMPORTANT NOTE We’ve dropped the price on the 300D
because it will soon be replaced by the 300D v.2, at $2200. A
factory upgrade will be available for $800.
A MORE AFFORDABLE DAC
Its conversion circuit is
identical to that of
the superb 300D.
We were amazed
to find that, on
some recordings,
it sounded much
like its bigger brother.
The front panel is silver, but we’ll supply it in black on request.
Get it in a bundle, and get a bargain on the interconnects you’ll
be needing.
ORDER: 100D converter, $599
ORDER: 100D plus Element 1m cables, $639
ORDER: 100D plus Hyper Symetrical 1m cables, $899.00
SUPER ANTENNA MkIII
Did you know that the Super Antenna is our best-selling store
product of all time? We designed it years ago for our FM tuner,
then realized how well it worked with off-air television. It also
works wonderfully well with digital TV. We use five of them
ourselves. How is it done? Our antenna has no stupid rotary switch
to muck things up. It uses a high-grade video transformer, and
with a low-loss multiple-shielded 75 ohm cable and gold-plated
F connector, it has low internal loss. It covers digital TV bands as
well as FM.
ORDER: FM-S Super Antenna, MkIII, $59.95