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Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit

Has anyone tried this "minimalist" cable kit? After receiving a recommendation from someone with similar musical values to myself, and whose ears I trust, I could not resist ordering one. I will report on how they sound in a few weeks, but am interested in others' opinions too.

For those that have not heard about them look at www.sakurasystems.com for an interesting read. The cable sounds as if it is very close to the specification of the conductors in Belden Cat5. So I may have spent around 100 times what the kit is worth. We shall see.

If you have not heard this cable, please don't bother posting your opinions of how it MUST sound here. Nor am I that interested in hearing how stupid I must be to order this kit - it's my money and you are free to make different decisions with yours. Sorry for this condition, but I am bored with those that have nothing positive to offer on this site, and post their opinions based on deductive logic rather than actual experience.

Redkiwi (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

05-21-01

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08-22-01 No, gaincard doesn't have to be used with 4708 ota cable kit ... sead@

08-23-01 I think you should try the ota speaker cables with the gainc ... ivos@

08-23-01 Hi ivo, i thought you went for vacation? funny, we live lik ... sead@

08-24-01 Hi sead, i'm still here. you know, my system sounds so good ... ivos@

08-30-01 Thanks sead, i just received a van den hul 90 degree phono ... Palmnell

09-06-01 Mark, gentle crimping isn't usually a good idea. unless you ... sead@

09-13-01 Sead, thanks for your thoughts regarding the gaincard power ... Kalan

09-26-01 thanks sead, i will use as small an amount of silver sold ... Palmnell

09-30-01 Add another audiogoner to the "lunatic fringe" or ... Slawney

09-30-01 Just to throw another spanner in the works! i had more ota ... Redkiwi

10-22-01 an interesting idea. i had never thought of that. unfortuna ... Palmnell

10-23-01 Just like to add my experience with sakura cable. i've obta ... Ultrakaz

10-24-01 Palmnell, i would have fully broken-in the ota cable before ... Slawney

10-25-01 Slawney, that's beautiful writing, if i may say so. btw, ano ... Gregm

10-25-01 "demiurgical divagations"?? where the hell is that ... Subaruguru

10-26-01 Slawney, would that i could have contained my unbridled pas ... Palmnell

10-28-01 I am nearly ready to try this stuff...can anyone draw a comp ... Bwhite

10-28-01 Bwhite, i will be able to compare valhallas -- in about a mo ... Gregm

10-28-01 Redkiwi, can it be that "fuller and richer" is ac ... Sead

10-28-01 Hi sead methinks you are right about it being mellower - bu ... Redkiwi

10-30-01 Bwhite, i will draw a comparison between nbs statement and o ... Slawney

10-30-01 With your permission, i want to send your comparison review ... Manzoor

10-30-01 Manzoor, thanks for the compliment, and permissions granted; ... Slawney

10-30-01 I have another question, but first... slawney! outstandin ... Bwhite

10-31-01 Bwhite, my recollection is that the ota as a speaker cable ... Caterham1700

10-31-01 Caterham, i think you're right - redkiwi was discussing mult ... Bwhite

10-31-01 Bwhite, slawney is indeed a poet and i make no pretense of b ... Caterham1700

10-31-01 I have not come across a cable that gets the start, body and ... Redkiwi

10-31-01 Slawney, slawney, my little grasshopper, you have strayed fr ... Asa

11-07-01 Caterham1700, redkiwi: your truths (expressed in verifiable, ... Slawney

11-07-01 okay slawney, that's great, now would you please sell me ... Bwhite

11-12-01 Thanks, slawney, i laughed out loud! this thread is a hoot! ... Asa

11-12-01 You tell him asa!!! come on slawney!! sell me that baby! pl ... Bwhite

11-13-01 Red...loonnggg- term break-in? how about break-down? i've no ... Subaruguru

11-13-01: Slawney
It is somewhat strange to consider the sale of my NBS Statements to B white as objective proof of the success of an empirical cable experiment (a poet, empirical?:-), since the crucial thing to bear in mind is that with the NBS Statement AND the 47 labs OTA I have at my disposal TWO possibilities by means of which I am able to radically alter my relationship to music at will. Besides, the Statements are needed on account of the fact that I do not yet have enough OTA to outfit my entire system, and now must make do with an NBS/47 combination, with the OTA now carrying the signal from the PhonoCube to the STAX headphone unit, and the phono cable remaining NBS (before, during the 400 hour break-in, OTA was "performing solo" between a CD integrated and the STAX). Once the OTA kit comes from Japan (and the European 47 Labs distributor called me tonight to reassure me that it is indeed coming, thank you) you will bear witness to the results of far more radical and through-going OTA experiments, "incorporations" of OTA that will thoroughly invalidate the warranties of at least two of my components (Sead can probably guess one of these projects if he reflects back on the schematic of my power amp...). If the OTA fails to live up to its promise, imagine my despair at not being able to hook up my NBS Statements again to make contact with my "other enjoyment" because I sold the Statements to B white who is perversely enjoying them (along with his brand new Audiomeca Mephisto II) thousands of miles away from me in the USA. Nevertheless, I somehow have a hunch that I may want to sell the Statements after the OTA kit arrives (as a matter of fact, I DID sell off some NBS cables here in Germany after OTA arrived, but these were not Statements: just KS, Signature, Master, but still...); consequently, I will make a promise: if, in spite of my love for NBS, the 47 Labs OTA kit renders the NBS superfluous, I will e-mail B white (don't worry, I already have your e-mail address from our previous correspondence) my offer to sell him my Statements (there are 9 of them, but do not hold your breath, because the experiments will take some time ...). For all of you others, this excessive gesture is made out of pragmatic utilarianism to clear away any disruptive, impertinent posts that might upset the very normal, balanced field of exchanges by which we have tried to perfect our understanding of the OTA Cable Kit. To show you how much I want to submit once again to the rationality of facts, a few enquiries: 1.) oxidation on OTA, views? 2.) Caig Pro Contact and OTA? 3.) optimal contact surface area between OTA and the RCA input (reduce or increase, effect on sound, dekay please step in)? 4.) OTA and XLR, balanced format (anybody try it)? 5.) OTA and digital (again, dekay).
Slawney (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

11-13-01 Slawney, fantastic reply! i look forward to the day when yo ... Bwhite

11-13-01 Slawney, if you're going to do a little cable survey, i woul ... Asa

11-13-01 Asa, the way i see it (forgive me my eventual ignorance tha ... Sead

11-13-01 James, 1.) oxidation on ota, views? it does oxidate, of co ... Sead

11-14-01 The best ota digital cable that i have come up with in the p ... Dekay

11-15-01 Has anyone tried to use the ota wire with eichmann bullet pl ... Bwhite

11-15-01 Bwhite, when you see the ota connectors, you'll realise that ... Caterham1700

11-15-01 Sead, don't be a horse's ass. if you think my views are over ... Asa

11-17-01 Dear mark (aka asa), i am terribly sorry if i’ve left ... Sead

11-19-01 More names huh, but still no guts. hmmm...i thought so. Asa

11-19-01 C'mon, guys...lighten up! asa, your zorro-like flashes sting ... Subaruguru

11-20-01 Only when they ask for it, subaruguru...as you know. how gen ... Asa

12-02-01 How to kill a web forum discussion? 1. ignore the poster wh ... Sead

12-03-01 I've been monitoring the discussion here for a while now, an ... bejust@

12-03-01 Hi, 47labs cable is not aged. it's performance over time i ... Sead

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