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Oyaide Cables

Information on this cable brand was showing up in another thread, which is fine, but I figured this cable line deserves it's own thread.  I have very little experience with the brand so far as I have only had the Black Mamba V2 PC  in my system for about 200 plus hours and just installed the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 PC last night.  I only need one PC for my system at this time as my Integrated amp has a DAC and my music streamer doesn't take after market PCs.    Firstly, the Black Mamba V2 PC is excellent.  I know audio is very system dependent, but in my system the BM V2 was the best PC I have had, it really made a noticeable difference.  It kind of gives you the  best of both words, good clarity and extension but at the same time the system is relaxed and natural sounding.  Very important if you have a lot of rock and pop and poorly produced material in your music collection.   The Tsunami GPX-R V2 PC improves upon the BM V2 in that the air and spacing is better, the stage is deeper and wider,  and the bass is still tight, but thicker.   I am thrilled with these PCs so I ordered the Tunami Nigo V2 speaker cables and those should be here soon.  I am very happen with the Western Electric 14 GA, but after hearing how good their PCs are, I just had to give the Oyaide SC a try.     Anyway, bottom line is I suspect it would be very hard to find a line of cables that sound this good at such affordable prices.  A Big thanks to Wig for letting me know about these PCs and Speaker cables and guiding me along.  
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genjamon
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Regarding the Furutech NCF wall plate, I did find it to have a rather large effect in my system.  More than I expected.  And I've had similar great improvements first from going to all GTX(R) outlets, and then upgrading them all again to the NCF outlets.  Thought there wouldn't be that much more improvement to be had.  

However, I would say that in my system the wall plate wasn't completely neutral to timbre.  I got greatly enhanced microdetails and air, but a lighter overall timbre, not as meaty of a tone, and the soundstage depth increased a lot, but took away from that sense that the performance is right there in the room.  Greater depth into the recording, but that recording was no longer in the room with me.  YMMV.  

I kept the wall plate because I think I was hearing more clearly into the recording, and focused on preamp upgrade to address the "in the room" engagement factor.  But once in a while I do wonder about taking that wall plate back out of the system to see where I'm at now.  It's just not easy to A/B!
genjamon
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@tramey  I'm familiar with the trade-off between a lighter tone/timbre and more forward sound vs warmer sound with more body and more laid back soundstage.  In fact, just last night I was going back and forth between two sets of outputs on my preamp - one with Jupiter copper caps, and the other with an RTX/Teflon combo caps.  That was very much the tradeoff I was hearing last night.  RTX/Teflon had a cleaner/clearer sound, but only because it was emphasizing the attack and not the full body of instruments.  This also made the sound more forward, versus more relaxed soundstage with the Jupiter caps and a warmer body/tone to instruments.

What I heard with the Furutech wall plate was a bit different.  Yes, the lighter tone/body, but a LESS forward sound.  I attribute this to further reducing distortion which was causing sounds to be a bit more bloated than they should be.  Greater refinement of the sound, but with a shift in tone/body.  But it did leave me wanting some of that tone/body back.  

One thing that helped dramatically afterward was upgrading to the Ultrarendu from the Microrendu.  That upgrade brought back the body to a large degree while also increasing refinement and detail further.  So, I think the wall plate was helping me to hear some tizzy distortions from my source or other aspects of my system to a greater degree than before.  

I'm a believer in the NCF products for sure - I haven't heard an application yet where they didn't increase resolution and refinement of the system.  The question is whether that's always a good synergy, because it may require upgrades in other parts of your system to achieve a new balance at a new level of refinement.  Only you can be the judge whether you've got the cojones and wallet to go further down the rabbit hole.  
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