The new Chord (Cable Company) GroundARAY - any views?

[TheFlash]

Just teasing: of course you'll have a view!

https://chord.co.uk/product/groundaray-advanced-high-frequency-noise-reduction/

How many unused connectors do you reckon you have across the back of all your equipment?

These devices plug into unused sockets. You know those little Oyaide WMA covers which apparently do something but at least keep the dust out? At an exorbitant £2.50 each? Well these must be in a different league, being hand-assembled etc and available in just about any termination you desire.

£550 each. Yep. I think I'd need at least 20 to feel "the full benefit": thart will be £11,000 then. Better start saving.

 

[Lurch]

My view: Chord is taking the piss as usual. 

 

[TheFlash]

My view: Chord is taking the piss as usual. 

Bizarrely accords with mine

or perhaps

Bizarrely aChords with mine

or for Linn fans

Bizarrely aKords with mine.

Something for everyone. All part of our diversity agenda.

 

[TheFlash]

Oyaide had better raise their game: cheapskates!

 

[Zen Monkey]

I was a big Chord Company fan, spent a lot on their products over the years. About eight or nine years ago, I came across a post on an audio forum claiming that the Chord 'Clearway' mains filter, rrp £220 or thereabouts (can't remember the exact price) was nothing more than a rebadged £20 unbranded filter widely available on the continent. The post included a link to the unbranded filter on a German electrical store website. I ordered the filter from Germany and compared it to the Chord Clearway which I picked up second hand and they were identical. I haven't purchased anything from Chord since.

 

[TheFlash]

Apologies to @Warszawa: I didn't realise you'd got there first!



Ladies and gents, please provide your constructive feedback to the manufacturer over there...

 

[Gray]

Certainly getting noticed, if not in the way Chord intended.

https://forums.whathifi.com/threads/chord-company-launches-groundaray-noise-reduction-family-for-your-hi-fi-separates.120244/

 

[MVJ]

Utter bollocks they should get locked up for fraud :doh:

 

[Bokke]

Just teasing: of course you'll have a view!



https://chord.co.uk/product/groundaray-advanced-high-frequency-noise-reduction/

How many unused connectors do you reckon you have across the back of all your equipment?

These devices plug into unused sockets. You know those little Oyaide WMA covers which apparently do something but at least keep the dust out? At an exorbitant £2.50 each? Well these must be in a different league, being hand-assembled etc and available in just about any termination you desire.

£550 each. Yep. I think I'd need at least 20 to feel "the full benefit": thart will be £11,000 then. Better start saving.

Get one for every hole in your system. Just think how the bass drum will feel afterwards. The wife will ask what's happened?

 

[TheFlash]

Get one for every hole in your system. Just think how the bass drum will feel afterwards. The wife will ask what's happened?

I'd have to ask her to leave the room first, so she could come back in and ask what I'd changed.

 

[Bokke]

I'd have to ask her to leave the room first, so she could come back in and ask what I'd changed.

Don't forget to blind fold her you kinky devil

 

[Beobloke]

My new preamplifier came supplied with shorting plugs fitted to the phono input.

If anyone wants to buy them I’d be happy to undercut The Chord Company and let them go for £250 the pair…

 

[simon g]

I'm sure that these will do well in the market place that buys boxes of dirt for £1,800

https://www.futureshop.co.uk/entreq-tellus-ii-infinity?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI16Wkn9ut8gIVCrDtCh2bmgwSEAQYAiABEgLevvD_BwE

 

[Nopiano]

I’m out!  But I’ve got just the right number of inputs so they’re all occupied by actual kit.  Shocking to think I’ve got decent components that cost less than this stuff. 

 

[chris_bates1974]

This has really concerned me. I have a few bits and pieces of Chord stuff, and I've been really happy with it. But these do seem like complete and total snake oil.

I'm assuming the matching cable lifters and high-end fuses will be following soon?

 

[TheFlash]

This has really concerned me. I have a few bits and pieces of Chord stuff, and I've been really happy with it. But these do seem like complete and total snake oil.

I'm assuming the matching cable lifters and high-end fuses will be following soon?

I'm with you, Chris. They're no doubt commercially successful and profitable, they've designed and produced some great cables over the years, though got drawn into the more-and-more-expensive race in latter years. This product, for me, crosses a line.

If they sell many of these, and I'm pretty sure they will, they will be meeting a perceived need. That's the joy of the capitalist free market economy. But I think the need they're meeting is a psychological one, not a technical one.

 

[chris_bates1974]

I'm with you, Chris. They're no doubt commercially successful and profitable, they've designed and produced some great cables over the years, though got drawn into the more-and-more-expensive race in latter years. This product, for me, crosses a line.

Yes, I'm afraid that is the case for me, too. Ultimately, I found interconnects and speaker cables to be good value. But I am now genuinely concerned that I'm just being ripped off if I buy anything else....

 

[Bokke]

I'm sure that these will do well in the market place that buys boxes of dirt for £1,800

https://www.futureshop.co.uk/entreq-tellus-ii-infinity?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI16Wkn9ut8gIVCrDtCh2bmgwSEAQYAiABEgLevvD_BwE

That wood would make some lovely furniture but at the price of audiophile 'wood' a simple cupboard would cost £10 000.

 

[TheFlash]

That wood would make some lovely furniture but at the price of audiophile 'wood' a simple cupboard would cost £10 000.

It would be the best sounding cupboard ever though.