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lead is attached. My previous 75 had too is for Dave Peacock to have more you can remove them.
a Sony tuner but my present 75 has success than Chas Hodges going Regards,
a horrendous JVC tuner – silver in a forward, given that the latter sadly Mike Bickley
mock Tudor Walnut dash! I had similar passed away in September 2018. Do
reception problems with my Daewoo you want to tell Jon or shall I? Thanks for that Mike. Yes, indeed
Lanos which had a retractable external Many thanks, – ferrite rings and beads absorb
aerial – posh! Yours in Sound, high frequency energy, thereby
Ray Spink Ian Davies reducing noise. RS Components stock
Nottingham 388 different types, for example,
Mea Culpa. Apologies to you all. If companies like TDK making them for
Hi Ray. Your Naim amps and Garrard Chas Hodges is reading the column mains cable use.
401 fettled by Dr Martin Bastin are from way above he may have a wry Russ Andrews clamps (£8 for
lovely products in good, solid and smile on his face at my stupidity. two) are especially neat and he makes
honest British tradition – and Martin JM some very good points about their
Bastin helped re-launch the 401 use, including being clamped to the
by his efforts. I am wedded to my LED BULBS output of wall-warts (switched mode
Garrard 401 on Martin Bastin plinth, As a supplement to Richard Barton’s power supplies) whose cable carries a
with its equally gorgeous SME3012S experience with LED bulbs and RF. lot of high frequency rubbish.
arm. Naim’s NDX 2 made its own Russ Andrews has started to sell RF I presume LED bulbs also carry
case for UK quality, in construction, clamps https://www.russandrews.com/ internal switch mode supplies, to
finish and sound quality. Good rf-clamp-pack-of-2-small. change a.c. to d.c. for the LED,
engineering, worth appreciating. When these first appeared they also radiating rubbish, so as you
With Radio 4 in the car, it seems were clipped to interconnect cables say: "clip them on to the mains cable
that you need to look at having a and the like. In fact, Hi-Fi World that feeds the light fitting". It makes
better aerial installed, rather than carried a review of a pair of TDK good technical sense, reducing RF
relying on the rear de-mister, if that ones some years ago. Russ’s take on radiation from the cable. The EU
is the aerial. I’m sure the ‘net can the subject is to clip them on to the mandates against RF radiation from
help here with car aerial installers. mains cable which feeds the light electronic equipment but endorses
NK fitting. He perceives that fitting them LED bulbs for their power saving,
to signal carrying cables degrades the ignoring the rubbish they produce
CHAS & DAVE 1 sound. – contradictory. A good solution
Slightly confused about Jon Myles’s I think that you need to fit them would be for household lighting
words regarding Chas & Dave in the on all the LED light bulb mains cables circuits to carry d.c. to LEDs direct, I
December 2019 issue... before any perceived difference is believe, eliminating RF radiation from
It appears that Mr Myles is not noticed, and then it’s probably very household wiring, in line with EU
aware that Chas Hodges sadly died subtle, but they are fairly cheap and requirements. NK
over a year ago. I’m not a huge Chas
& Dave fan or anything but I do know
Chas is brown bread.
Adam Tate
Hertford
Hertfordshire
CHAS & DAVE 2
Jon Myles has really excelled himself
this month: “And then, of course, there’s
Chas And Dave. I’d wager it will be
Chas – so the chances are we’re going
to see Dave become the big interna-
tional star. Good luck to him too in that
venture and I hope Chas takes it well”.
I think there’s every chance Russ Andrews mains filter clamps, just £8 a pair. Clamp them
Dave’s career will be bigger, since Chas over mains cables to reduce RF interference.
Hodges died in 2018.
Steve Fenton
Cambridge

CHAS & DAVE 3
Take the old boy out, buy him a pint
and give him a stiff talking to. Tell him
that Chas is dead.
Best wishes,
Nick Powell
CHAS & DAVE 4
I was enjoying Jon Myles opinion article Wall-wart power supplies produce RF noise. Russ Andrews
up until the last paragraph. My money clamps suppress it.
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