Gold dust!!! The Trimline was like aliens had landed when it arrived. The handle was in the wrong place. The other one is the old Beatie phone, never liked it, but better than the digital garbage BT give you these days.
Everyone has to have family heirlooms - these will be mine 
I love DECT phones. I also like stereo Teasmades:
The teasmades were made between about 1955 and 1961.
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now i am impressed - i had one of those teasmades (teasmaids?), same model, used to sneak it into friends houses when we helped them move house. eventually one of the buggers kept it!!
This company might be of interest:
Iām not affiliated with them. Iām not even a customer. But I have seen their extension cords in person, and they are cool looking in the manner of the cords in the OP.
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Great cables - funny shaped sockets that would never be approved as safe for sale in the uk though 
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@stevensegal - Galen at Iconoclast Cable will go on about LRC as long as you want, and each cable is provided with that specific setsā test specs.
Though the subjective performance of those cables has sold me on the notion that design and measurement is a way of getting great sonic results, I donāt think it is the only way. Sometimes people come up with stuff that sounds good, and we donāt really know why. That does not prove anything - it neither means it is snake oil nor that it will sound good.
I find it amusing that you would take on this mission, seemingly attempting some sort of cancel culture move against signal cables, when youāve admitted believing that Power Cables Matter. Curious how many of your power cables, if you own others aside from Shunyata (which is one of the brands I use) offer measurements.
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Shame those are not available in the UK.
I hate cables with a vengeance, primarily for aesthetic reasons. They are almost entirely invisible in my house and if they are I use nylon braid to disguise them. Exhibit 1:
Iām sure with less cables hifi would be more socially acceptable. And fancy sockets.
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Iām with you, there. I do spend a lot of effort on cable management in my audio rack as well as my home theater and computer desk.
Iāve rejected cables I might have otherwise purchased because of connectors that are too bulky or branded shrink wrap thatās too stiff or wire itself thatās too stiff to bend and route as I need. In addition to basic quality and reliability of design and construction, I look for cables that donāt require too much space behind the component and jacket colors that donāt call attention.
me i love cables, got far too many of them (though none expensive, just decent quality connectors etc).
prefer them neatly routed and loomed, but can live with spaghetti too, and have created āmasterpiecesā of both types over the years in homes, studios and data centres
My cables resemble a set of headers on a V12. Pretty in a messy kind of way. No problems with parallel cable signal influence here.
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I was very impressed with the speaker cables in Mr Fremerās video. They were snakes as thick as the mains water pipe under my garden lawn that my gardener put a shovel though last week.
Spaghetti enough for you? Fortunately hidden in in a corner of my office out of sight.
I accidentally cut my subwoofer cable too short, so had to extend it with a bit of mains flex and some audiophile cable connectors.
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Have you tried reversing the connector?
Are they directional?
No audio system is complete without a bit of mains flex deployed inappropriately.
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they could be, if you think they are!
Wow!!! 2-tone colors!!!
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I grew up in a Bakelite world. One of Americaās better inventions. Of course Garard made headshells for the 301 from Bakelite.
That surprises me slightly. I must be a good ten years older than you, and by the 50ās Bakelite was definitely āold hatā, except for electrical fittings, and even for them nylon was becoming more popular.
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Plenty of Bakelite around in the 70s up north, but then, we only got TV in the year 2000
N.b. I have met people who genuinely asked if we had TV āup northā and this was in the 80s
(Note to Americans -TV was available throughout the uk by the 60s (unless you lived somewhere super remote, and even then the chances of there being a low powered relay station on the nearest hill were good - there arenāt many places super remote really)
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