As another ecstatic user of Ric's Pursang cables, let me add my enthusiatic agreement to your comments. You're describing exactly what I hear in my system. I've never heard cables with such clarity, dynamics, naturalness and realism all rolled into one package.
I had an interesting experience last night. My system is wired from stem to stern with Pursang, but to get there I went through a couple of stages that left me with full systems of other wire. Because I'd gotten where I am through a series of incremental additions I'd never compared a full system of Pursang to full systems of other cables. Over the course of about three hours last night I did just that.
The signal wires in the system consist of a digital IC, a pair of balanced ICs, a pair of RCA ICs and a pair of speaker cables. In all cases the RCA and XLR ICs were the same wire.
First up was an Acoustic Zen setup, consisting of an MC2 digital cable, Silver Reference interconnects and Satori speaker cable.
After listening to the Pursang for some months I was shocked at how much detail went missing when I fired up the AZ setup. The sound lost dynamics, drive, lucidity, engagement and all-around realism. It was as if a thick cloth had dropped over the window on the music. Now for people who use AZ wire this may seem a bit over the top, or even downright unbelievable. All I can say is that this is a fair description of what I heard. The sound took on a degree of remoteness that I just didn't expect. Now, I hadn't used these cables in about two months, but they had been well broken in when I put them away, and at least the single-ended ICs had seen consistent use in my living room system since then.
Next up was a multi-manufacurer system consisting of a Nirvana DC-110 digital cable, Wireworld Gold Eclipse III+ interconnects and Magnan Signature speaker cable (the wide black ribbone).
This combination was more successful. More detail and emotion came through, and the dynamics were better than with the AZ system. There was a better soundstage, resolution was a bit higher, and there was more of a sense of the performers as real people. But (you knew there was going to be a "but", didn't you?) I still had a sense of something missing. The "there" just wasn't all there. While I could hear the musicians as people now, I was still missing a lot of insight into their artistic intentions and how they were realizing them during the performance.
After a couple of hours doing this, I was feeling pretty dissatisfied, and finally gave in to my urges. I rewired the system with Pursang - a digital cable, two pairs of ICs and the speaker cable. I hit "play", and the first two bars reaffirmed why I've become a Pursang zealot :-) The "there" was all there. I could hear all the nuances of the performances, the dynamics sounded real again and the veil over the perfomances lifted. Not only were there real people making the music, I could now hear and understand the artistic decisions they were making - fingerings, phrasing, the interactions between pairs and groups of musicians, the breathtaking realism of voices. When I played some Schubert it was as though the EPA had stepped in and ordered all the pollution to be removed from the lake so I could see every glittering scale on that quintet of trout swimming below the surface. Sheer bliss.
As far as I'm concerned the Pursangs define a new state of the art in audio cabling, and Ric Cummins is a freaking sorcerer.
