I would try some Auditorium 23. A bit of a dark horse, but Crimson cable is very well thought of. I have only tried their interconnects, and they were impressive for the money. I have a dealer who had success w/ Stereovox as well. I think the A23 will surprise you, just very right sounding. You have a great speaker, feed it well. Cheers -Don
Attention Verity owners
Recently purchased Verity Parsifal Ovation speakers used here on Agon.
Do you have any recommendations for speaker cables for under $1K? Probably few of you use anything that inexpensive but just in case.
Background
The more I listened to the Parsifals the more i started making excuses for how "not right" they sounded. I saw glimpses of greatness but the top to bottom sound was just way off of how speaker of anything close to this price range should sound.
I was using Purist Audio Musaeus's which I always thought sounded great with just about any speaker. It started occurring to me that maybe the speaker wire was also damaged in the power surge that took the rest of my system. Didn't seem likely, but it seemed less likely that the Parsifals could be so lacking.
So just to test I bought Audioquest Rocket 33's (the lowest in the rocket line). I figured they'd sound much worse until they broke in, but cold, brand new out of the box that sounded 1000% better than my Musaeus's. I could immediately hear what great speakers these really are even with unbroken in cheapish speaker cables. So clearly the Purist Audio's are toast.
Normally I'd be inclined to just buy new Purist Audio, but they might be too veiled for the capabilities of these great speakers.
Other equipment is Cary Audio SLP 98L, Cary Audio Cinema 5 200 WPC solid state Amp, and DAC TBD.
I prefer a warmer, musical, involving sound to ultra detailed/revealing. Any ideas?
Do you have any recommendations for speaker cables for under $1K? Probably few of you use anything that inexpensive but just in case.
Background
The more I listened to the Parsifals the more i started making excuses for how "not right" they sounded. I saw glimpses of greatness but the top to bottom sound was just way off of how speaker of anything close to this price range should sound.
I was using Purist Audio Musaeus's which I always thought sounded great with just about any speaker. It started occurring to me that maybe the speaker wire was also damaged in the power surge that took the rest of my system. Didn't seem likely, but it seemed less likely that the Parsifals could be so lacking.
So just to test I bought Audioquest Rocket 33's (the lowest in the rocket line). I figured they'd sound much worse until they broke in, but cold, brand new out of the box that sounded 1000% better than my Musaeus's. I could immediately hear what great speakers these really are even with unbroken in cheapish speaker cables. So clearly the Purist Audio's are toast.
Normally I'd be inclined to just buy new Purist Audio, but they might be too veiled for the capabilities of these great speakers.
Other equipment is Cary Audio SLP 98L, Cary Audio Cinema 5 200 WPC solid state Amp, and DAC TBD.
I prefer a warmer, musical, involving sound to ultra detailed/revealing. Any ideas?