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INTRODUCTION TO ACCESSORIES The performance of your Hi-Fi or Home Cinema system is influenced most by your choice of major components, however, other seemingly less important items also play a vital role in the process. The cables, the stands and the supports under your system can all dramatically affect – and improve – the system’s performance. Spending relatively small amounts of money here can produce large improvements in sound quality. We aim to give you the best advice on finding the balance between what is truly worthwhile and running up huge bills on accessories you don’t need. Stands and tables contribute significantly to the way loudspeakers and system components perform. Loudspeaker stands not only place your loudspeakers at the correct height they also improve detail, dynamics and bass performance. Equipment stands enhance the performance of Blu-ray/CD players, turntables and electronics by dealing with spurious air and structure-borne vibrations. There’s a vast range available in different designs, different materials and different colours, so there’s no excuse for not giving your system the support it deserves! Good cables are crucial: the interconnects that come free with equipment rarely offer adequate performance and you should certainly consider replacing them. Poor speaker cables will also strangle the sound of your whole system. Likewise poor video cables will not exploit the full potential of your television or projector. Headphones have had a huge renaissance and new audiophile models are appearing every month. They can sound even better than your speakers and extend the time you can listen to music without disturbing others, and they can help ensure that others don’t disturb you! We sell Bluetooth® wireless models and also headphones for travelling with built in noise reduction. But most of all we sell a wide range to upgrade those supplied with iPods and the like. The headphones in the box are almost always very poor and upgrading quite inexpensively can make a huge difference to the sound. Replacement versions can also come with the ability to take phone calls - a very useful addition if, say, you are out walking. GRADO RS1i Headphones Grado have been the leaders in design engineering, for both the high-end audio and recording industries, for almost half a century. Joseph Grado, who founded the company, is credited as the inventor of the stereo moving coil phono cartridge. Today, Grado is most famous for its remarkable headphones and its biggest selling model is the universally praised, multiaward winning SR80i. If you desire the world’s best headphone, the flagship Grado PS1000 is £1,699 per pair, but with the iGrado model, you can enjoy the award-winning performance of Grado headphones for less than £50. UK Distributor Armour Home Electronics, Units 7 & 8, Stortford Hall Industrial Park, Bishops Stortford CM23 5GZ T: 01279 501111 www.armourhome.co.uk www.grado.co.uk 34
AUDIOQUEST AudioQuest is a US based company that has been designing and manufacturing high performance, low distortion cables and accessories for over 30 years. Great sound and great pictures, music that consumes you, movies that transport you around the universe... all come from honouring the original signal. AudioQuest knows it’s an unavoidable fact of life that every component and cable in a system causes distortion, changing the overall character of the signal. Better cables and components can only improve performance if they do less harm to the original signal and reduce the amount of noise and distortion introduced into a system. Do No Harm! Hoge Bergen 10 4704 RH Roosendaal The Netherlands T 01249 848873 info@audioquest.nl www.audioquest.com Cinnamon HDMI, RCA Noise stopper caps, NRG Power Cable 35
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