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Preserve Golden Referance sound add Netrual Ref ?

My cd player is connected to the preamp with 1 meter Cardas Golden Referance.
There is app 8 meters of Taralabs Decade cabling from the pre to power amps.
I am trying to find out if by using 8 meters Netural Referance from pre to pwr amps if the sound will remain the same, since Cardas claim that NR is netural (my understand is, fails to add or subtract, in other words no sonic change can be heard). 8 meters NR is half less than GR.
Any knowledge of this is extremely thankful.
128x128terryakhan

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tplavas
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Sorry, but only in an alternate universe. 8 meters of any IC will change the sound, no matter what Cardas says about the NR.
tplavas
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Tplavas - you are correct, but only because Terry mis-stated what Cardas says about their Neutral Reference. Neutral Reference has the same sonic characteristics at 30 feet that it does at 3 feet. If you like the sound of the system with the 3 footers in it, the system will sound the same if you substituted 30 feet (of the Neutral Reference).
Now back to Terry - what brand/model components are you connecting with this long run? Is it single ended or balanced? Let me know and I will try and help.

Um, no.
There is no such thing as an IC that sounds the same at 30 feet as it does at 3 ft. That's fact. I respect Cardas products, but there is no magic that can change the electrical differences inherent in an extra 27 feet of IC cable, or 23 feet in Terryakhan's case.
If Cardas can make such a product, they will have many curious physicists knocking on their door.
tplavas
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Jwpstayman, FYI, I've owned the Cardas Golden Ref., for which Cardas makes the same "same at any length" claim. I've owned both a 1 meter and 2 meter, RCA terminated, and I could clearly hear a (minor) difference between the two, which is why I made my previous statement. I'm not in the habit of making off-the-cuff statements about products.
Sorry that you found my sharing of an opinion based on my experience so upsetting.
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