Spectron Remote Sense any good?


Has anyone had any experience, good or bad, with the Remote Sense speaker cables from Spectron? I'd like to upgrade my old cables and want a good match. My system: Sony SCD777ES (Mods by Kern) -> FSPDmkII -> Spectron MII -> VonSchweikert VR-5. I'm basically pretty happy with the sound but my obsessive audionervosa syndrome is, as usual, running unchecked.

If you have other recommendations for any other speaker cable, interconnects, power cords or conditioners, that may have synergy with my system, please feel free to offer your suggestions.

Thanks in advance for any input.
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I found the amp to sound much better with heavy-gauge Goertz or Analysis Plus than it does with the sense cable. To be fair though, you have to give the sense cable time to "burn in".
The feed-back loop can't account for every variable on the wire. The sense-cable starts out a bit "hashy" and then over the course of a week or more starts to smooth out. Strand noise etc, seem to be random in nature and are not really addressable by feedback. You just drive the amp nuts trying.

The amp just does better on speaker cable that has a nice low impedance across the audio band (and, perhaps, out to the switching frequency of the amp which can end up being reflected back to the amp in certain circumstances.

To my ears, the highs on the sense cables are not natural; the decay is rather truncated, and the sub-harmonics that describe the instrument are also damaged (very noticable against a good cable). Bass is usually good (best place for a servo to operate), but even there Goertz is smoother and less dry. So darn many variables.

The cable is a tinned copper stranded cable that retails in Europe for about $1.50 a foot. Read the jacket then look it up on the web.