Jafant, it's an Acrolink Mexcel 8N-PC8100 Performante. Thanks for all responses though I didn't expect the animosity displayed on this thread. Anyway for closure just to update that I'll be keeping the cord after all as the sound has improved approaching 50 hours and it's now sounding a lot better. It really sounded quite horrible out of the box (below 5 hours).
*duck and cover
*duck and cover