Wilson owners Call of Duty

Mcrheist, hatchet hopefully buried and genuine interest in your experience appreciated, which PADs are you auditioning with your Wilsons?

I found the Aqueous Anniversary to be a fine value and the Dominus Ferox nearly incomparable with most speakers except Wilsons.

Transparent Audio Cables are allegedly voiced with Wilsons and do seem to have a special synergy with them, IMHO.

But I understand my credibility with you may have been compromised.

With no disrespect meant to your friend/ PAD dealer, I humbly suggest you try some TAs with your Wilsons.

Or don't bother as you can hardly go wrong with the right PADs.

After much auditioning of cables for my new W/P 8s including Audioquest Sky/Everest, Synergistic Apex, JPS Aluminata, Virtual Dynamics Rev 2.0, my reference Cardas GR and various Tranparent Audio products, I chose the TAs even before I knew that there was an association between the companies.

Of course the cables cost as much as the speakers but after hearing the result of the combination it really didn't matter.

Except to my accountant.

Rhyno, I ended up with a combination Ref MM phono cables, Ref XL V or XL SS ICs depending on the components connected and Ref XL SS SC. These are all TA's latest "MM" technology as XL has now simply become a model designation in the Reference series. Kind of confusing.

I listened to the whole new Reference line hierarchy including basic Ref, Ref XL, Ref MM and even Opus MM (big mistake!).

I have nothing but praise for the other cables I auditioned but there was clearly a special synergy between the TAs and my Wilsons.

Ed (Cipherjuris), your cable odyssey is very interesting. Sounds like you've attained an enviable synergy but I'm wondering why you didn't try Transparent cables in the same league (and price) as VD Rev 2.0s or PAD Dominus?

Interesting that you didn't go VD or PAD (or new TA) all the way like most do. How did you decide where to put what? I'm wondering if I should try mixing cables.

Mcrheist, like I said, you can hardly go wrong with PADs at any level but if you like your Cardas Golden Cross, definitely try Golden Reference which IMHO is a significantly under-rated cable. And do try the McCormack DNA-500 although I recently found the T+A A 1530 to be another remarkable performer for even less $$$ than the DNA-500!!

Ed, thanks for your insights. I'm probably a few steps back but I suspect I might be following your footsteps.

I look forward to your continuing odyssey.

Mert, more accurately, Wilson+Transparent is nirvana.