LFD Cables (phono and I.C.) from the UK, cables as components

[Johan K]

Mik asking his clients for payment for the dongle

Luckily when Mike bought it price was only 1 million

Love these movies!! Very much my humor..
Most of all I love the ”Mole” scene - Sooo funny !!

 

[Johan K]

 

[Mike Lavigne]

these dongles looks like lessloss x640 filters .
are they decrease grain by emi filtering?

a post/comment to an 18 month old thread with a complete baseless guess. is that how you typically judge things? just assume there is circuitry inside with zero basis for doing that? why go out of your way to stir this up? someone put you up to it?

then Ked piles on.

these 'dongles' are simply a way to overcome the DIN connection limitations. a DIN connector has very limited space so compromises the signal path. the 'dongle' overcomes that limitation. Mik describes it in more detail. reach out to Mik if you want more information.

there are no hidden circuits or nefarious goings on inside the dongles. those who have heard these at Mik's place appreciate what they can do.

phono cartridges output very low signals, so phono cables are very significant. and the DIN connection is a major limitation to phono cable performance.

ignorance can be the source of humor. Mik is not here and likely won't be to respond.

carry on.

 

[Loheswaran]

I have experienced the entire range of lfd electronics and have all top tier products amongst my collection they are amongst the finest solid stage amplifiers I have ever heard bar none and in fact I would go far so they re write the rules of the common debate of solid verses tubes. They do become costly has one has factor the expenditure of the appropriate the added cost of ancillaries ie cables. There are many many complete un commercial cables and electronics in my hand ones that manufacturers would just shudder the thought of coming up with a prototype let alone producing.

The tweaking of the wiring is used in different forms and iterations thoughout the amplifier ranges and one can easily hear the differencest just with small conductor alterations make to the overall performance and the selection of mostly unobtainable passive and active components. This manipulation is what likes of Be Yamamura was touching on all those years back with using pure aluminium conductors etc that made his concepts quite unique. What mike is experiencing is only very small part of customised solutions available (at a price). A lot of the wacky tweaking I have come up with ie extensive use of platinum has been inspired by Dr Bews. This is certainly not new we have to just look at wacky products as the Lfd Battery disc stage that was way ahead of its time in 1985 so much much so that veterans in industry very surprised they were charging five times as much in todays this would equate to ludicrous sums these days and not just hyper inflated prices appear to charge in the last 20 years. Accolade must also be give to Be Yamamura who was a friend of Dr Bews for all his inspiration and to Professor Hawksford and to Eric Tsang who had spent the best part of three apartments in London on crazy cable conductors just to find out what's what.

I’ve heard about Eric Tsang from a cable making friend of mine.
I have a love hate with cables. I love them coz the good ones work and hate them as they are too costly for me.
I then had a good discussion with Taj Moughadden founder of Roksan and thereafter Vertere. He explained about the fact that in the HB cables he makes they are thin enough to go inside a persons hair and are incredibly fine. These aren’t ‘off the shelf’ and are difficult to put together with a high breakage/wastage rate to get perfect.

He further explained about the different diameters for different frequencies- I’ve had his basic cables and they are quite superb. I understand that Tsang has a similar approach. Time to fill the piggy