Question of priorities in audio cables

Cable architecture also plays a significant role in cable performance, as I have recently learned.

Examples of cable architecture are
- Coax
- balanced pair (shielded) e.g. Van den Hul DL102 mkiii
- twisted pair - e.g. Stager Silver Solids

For DIYers - one of the simplest and most effective architectures I've used is braiding the conductors, which I have found to improve performance considerably of both interconnect and power cables.

Then you get into the really specialized architectures like the Essence
gZero range of products from KLE Innovations that uses conductors of
difeerent gauges and metals together with their own proprietary
architecture where they twist the neutral conductor(s) around the signal
conductor and excellent RCA connectors to significantly improve
performance.

Another company that uses a similar approach is Anti cables, which I have also heard many good things about.

On the RCA front, I started a couple of years ago looking at one of the more unusual designs, the Eichman Silver Bullet. I then tried the entire Harmony line of RCA's and have settled on the Pure Harmony.

Their unconventional design/architecture and choice of conductor materials provides for exceptional performance to the point where I now regard connectors as one of the more significant elements in cable
construction.

Regards

I just had a very interesting experience. I've been trying different IC's having different architectures with varying results.

The latest IC was the Essence gZero6 from KLE Innovations. Reading their web site, they state their architecture (or geometry) is to wind the neutral conductor around the signal conductor - the premise being that two cables side-by-side causes noise in the neutral which affects the operation of components it is connected to.

So I took one of the conductors (of a twisted pair) from my silver IC, inserted it in a 3 ft long 1/10" Teflon tube and wrapped the neutral around the tube with a 1/4" spacing between each winding. The neutral was made from one conductor (copper) from a CAT6 network cable.

Connected the very same RCA's and voila!

The performance improvement was remarkable, when compared to the original twisted pair silver interconnect.

The new cable was better at everything across the board, but the most startling improvement was to the dynamic response - incredibly fast and powerful

Considering that one of the silver conductors was downgraded to copper I think this clearly demonstrates the importance of cable architecture.

There is One caveat: I use the KLE Innovations RCA's on all my cables - without them you will not get the same dynamic response - they are among the very best RCA's out there.

Their cables too are excellent performers - very dynamic and neutral sounding with a very wide and deep image - I have them also :-)

Something to ponder