OT: Re: Audiophilia

In my - admittedly rather limited - experience, water heaters tend to be wired in, with no explicit connector, whereas stoves[%] tend to be plugged in with a rather heavy and distinctive four-conductor plug. (Two mains phases, neutral, and ground.) Clothes dryers - which you didn't mention unless UK English is even stranger to my eyes than I thought - are like stoves in this regard. I'm not sure what a "shower heater" is; if it's for warming up the room before/during showering, I'd expect that to be wired in unless it's a portable room heater which just happens to get used for that room. Of course, not all stoves, nor clothes dryers nor water heaters, are electric. I'm talking about just the electric ones here, the ones where the principal energy source is electric mains. [%] Are these "cooker"s? I'm talking about the thing that produces heat for preparing food in a kitchen. Often bundled into the same appliance as an oven; indeed, without an oven there's a tendency to call them something other than stoves - `hotplate' is the word that comes to mind, though IMO that usage is a bit of a misnomer. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B