Acoustic Zen vs. Coincident CST


Does anybody out there have any comments about the performance characteristics of these two companys cables, either IC or Spkr going head to head. I know components plays a big part but lets talk generalities. Appreciate all the feed back and interaction with you all.
curlysimpson

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I cannot be definitive about this, but I believe the Coincident speaker cable is not a low-capacitance cable, not real high either like the Goertz, but at least moderate capacitance. This will cause it to sound too laid back and fuzzy with a few amps. But in the right company it has a rightness to its sound, that makes everything seem like it comes from the one musical event rather than a disconnected patchwork of nice sounds. It is a strength that some people fail to notice because they get too analytical about resolution issues.
Thanks Israel. I may indeed have the wrong end of the stick - but I have found that a very few amps do react badly to medium/high capacitance cables, despite low resistance and inductance. Perhaps my experimentation is not sufficient to identify the actual causation. I must emphasise that despite experimenting with many amps I have only come across two that had a problem with high capacitance cables.
Thanks Israel. We were using very low impedence speakers, and so that may have been the case.