Anybody tried 20th Anniversary Purist cables?

I was part of the auditioning gang at CMO's place and will corroborate his findings on Aqueous. My personal descending order of preference as follows: 1: AQ Sky by a significant margin, 2: Cardas Golden Cross, 3: Purist Venusta, 4: Purist Aqueous 20th Anniversary last by a significant margin. And yes, it was a blind test for me. I am really curious to know if the Aqueous were unbroken, defective, or equipment mismatch, or it was mayhaps a glaring case of the Acqueous suffering from Andersen's Chorea.

JAFOX, several weeks past since the audition at CMO's place, so some details are turning fuzzy (or should I say 'Aqueous'?). I could easily switch the Cardas Golden Cross and the Purist Venusta around in my ranking. Overall the Venusta sounded more 'refined' than the CGC, whereas the CGC sounded slightly coarse with less overtones ringing to the surface. On the other hand, the CGC seemed to have a larger, deeper soundstage. The venusta is certainly slightly warmer than the AQ Sky and to some ears it may give the impression of a slight veil over the music. Other listeners by contrast may find the Sky to be too stark. I personally preferred the overall presentation of the Sky: extremely extended from top to bottom without apparent hot-spots in any frequency range and -- at least in my view and for the selection of music I brought over -- Edgar Meyer playing Bach on double bass and Dvorak's New World Symphony conducted by Bernstein -- sky had the most interesting, revealing yet unadorned and authoritative presentation with the highest harmonics content. Yet the Venusta is a great IC and I understand perfectly how CMO can be in love with its beauty and velvet glow.

Stan, your total inability of saying anything useful and even remotely constructive is truly amazing. Now tell us. . . are you suffering from a genetic disorder? Or is it contageous? Should we be concerned or are we safe? Is it related to Bird Flue?

Bingo Jafox:
The AAP type of influenza virus, also called avian AudioPhile's flu virus, is the type most likely to cause epidemics and pandemics among audiophile populations. This is because the influenza AAP virus can undergo antigenic shift during audio amplification and present a new, immune target to impressionable audiophiles such as Stan. Populations tend to have more resistance to standard H. C. Andersen's choriea, because they only undergo nonsensical drift, and have more similarity with previous strains.
The avian Audiophile's flu virus is a species of virus. Its genetic code is RNA not DNA. It mutates very fast by comparison to both DNA and non-viruses. To the contrary of A type non audiophile flues, Cold destroies it while heat preserves it. It mutates enough so after a year of mutating in birds and hot-running tube-based amplifiers, humans can catch the new strain and not be protected by their body from last year's strain. Cold in digital amps destroies AAP virus particles. Stan, we really feel for you, but there is no treatment available for AAP!

Brave claim Mapleleafs3. Do you have any material evidence to corroborate the lamp-chord nature of Purist wires?

"Cables sounds hooded and closed "

EBM, that is exactly what I heard from the Aqueous as well. The sample I listen to was also a balanced set, though it was only 3 ft long. Could the positive reports mostly be for RCA versions? Or is it a mass case of H.C. Andersen's Chorea?

Jafox, the Aqueous is very powerful and is mysteriously related to the CLC, but in reverse, in that it acts on the listener rather than on the equipment. . . and turns our worst audio nightmares into psychosomatic reality. [chuckles!]

Seriously, with the several cuts I listened at CMO's with the Aqueous, the consensus at the ttime seemed to be that the effect was uninvolving, hooded -- as in not extended -- and sweet but slightly thin. I did not hear at the time an excess at the top, but we were concentrating mostly on some tracks from Edgar Meyer playing Bach on the double bass, which does not have exactly a piercing treble to start with. It is entirely possible that on other material I did not listen to, the treble overpressure may have showed up.
I would welcome Albert Porter's comments on the subject of the Aqueous, as we all seem to have such a diverging experience with this wire. I am seriously wondering if some of the wires were shipped with some manufacturing defects.

Thank you Grant, I rest my case. yet mapleLeafs3 was a 'good' theory, in that it lended itself to being proved true or false. As such, even if one doubted the veracity of the PF specs, one could presumably waste some perfectly good money and take a Purist wire apart to verify that the wires are made from utility grade lamp chord. Mapleleaf3, want to give it a try?

Realistically Rcprince
, until there is a reasonably substantial body of reports on Aqueous Anniversary cables that are completely broken in, it will be difficult to define exactly the sound of these new wires.