Black Rhodium 8 Gang Power Block

Black Rhodium cables have won numerous awards and reviews for their excellent range of mains blocks and cables, manufactured in England. Mains Cables R Us are authorized Black Rhodium stockists, please contact us for any products you may need.

This block will work wonders for your system, it is available with schuko socktes, USA sockets and UK sockets, please contact us to discuss your requirements.

The 8 gang mains block will give an instant performance boost to budget and high end systems.

· 8 fully wired mains socket outlets to either UK, European (Schuko) or USA standard connectors

· Silver plated copper conductors for greater clarity of sound

· Ultra low impedance high cross section conductor wire for superior low frequency response and stereo imaging

· Silicone rubber insulation for accurate portrayal of the leading edges and decays in music

· Superior low impedance high frequency substantially reduces RFI/EMI

Complete with 2 metres of audiophile super jazz cable attached. Each socket is internally wired with 4mm thick silver plated cable for a seriously good performance.

Here is a review by the most recent customer to purchase one of these blocks with schuko socktes fitted:-

Normally, I use a Rega DAC to process the music transcoded by the Sneaky, which is currently off for upgrading. In the absence of the Rega, I have used the DAC within the Sneaky to continue to listen to music. But I was suffering because the quality was so much worse. Now the new power supply has raised the Sneaky to my memory of what the music sounded like through the Rega. I anxiously await the return of the Rega to hear how it gets even better.

I recently bought a Black Rhodium 8 gang mains block including an audiophile fuse plus two audiophile power cables containing Black Rhodium cables and Oyaide plugs. The purchase followed extensive discussions with David, including one phone call at 23:00 on a Saturday night (sic), which provided invaluable advice on the final decision. For example, all plugs are Schuko except for the UK mains plug on the mains block.  In its prior incarnation, my HiFi system consisted of a Linn Sneaky DS connected to an NAS by Meicord cat 6 ethernet cables and to a Klyne preamp and a tube amp connected by Furutech Evolution II interconnects. All components were isolated mechanically against sonic vibration. But the power was being supplied by a Belkin cable and multi-stranded, thick non-name power cables.

I immediately realized that the mains block is very special when I plugged my amp into it with its hard-wired cable, because the sound became much more musical. Both bass and treble increased in clarity without diminishing the mid-range. The showpiece of the Hi Fi system, the preamp, changed equally dramatically and positively when I connected it to the Black Rhodium via the Mains Cables R Us power cable. And after connecting the Sneaky to the Black Rhodium, the experience became one of hearing music rather than sound.

For each step, I compared the sound using a ripped CD with percussion composed by John Cage, Twilight sung by Mary Chapin Carpenter, and the beginning of Live by Alison Kraus and Union Station, the John Cage percussion is extremely demanding because it includes a wide variety of home-made instruments, including bells at the upper limit of my hearing range. It also has extremely violent changes in volume. For the first time, these violent changes in volume started sounding precise and clear. Twilight includes several instruments spanning the range from bass to treble, which all compete with Carpenter’s voice. The new sound allowed each of the instruments to be heard distinctly and separately. The Live CD sounds great on a medium level CD transport but was annoying, excruciatingly so, with the Sneaky. It now sounds like music again. Apparently, I had so much jitter from the power lines previously that it was destroying the musicality of the ripped tracks. I have now also listened to a variety of other music, ranging from a reference Bruckner Symphony CD to Hi-Rez (24 bit, 192 KHz, Equinox from Soundkeeper Recordings), and all of it sounds better than before. I can unconditionally recommend these products and Mains-Cables-R-US.