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Interconnect with great dynamics and bass slam ,

I recently purchased some Cardas Golden cross sepaker cables. They replaced my Dh Lab Q10s. I replaced the Q10s because i was getting some upper mid freq brightness.
I have Golden Cross interconnects from preamp to amp and from cd player to pre amp. The sound is very smooth and detailed .The bass and mid bass is not as authorative or as tight. The highs are better - more detailed and smooth.
The problem is the sound is almost too smooth the bass is kind of rounded off now .The sound is less dynamic.
My Question is.
Is there an interconnect that could give me back that great bass and dynamics of that i had with the Q10s, without the harshness i was getting. I think i would like to keep the Golden Cross speaker cables and try changing the ICs. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
grey9hound
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@Audiolabyrinth
My amp is 125 into 8 ohms and 225 into 4 ohms. THD is .04%
29db Gain
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audiolabyrinth
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@ waxwaves,where are you?you have comments on whats been said about your cable or eany thing here?cheers!
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audiolabyrinth
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@ grey9hound,wow!,I am lost for words!This is a odd situation!,please let me know so I can learn from you when you figure out the problem!I do not believe I can from here!Jmcgrogan2,can you give some advice here?cheers!
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blueranger
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Just compared Tara labs to Kimber KGAC and the Kimber has more dynamics and slam. The start of "Hey You" by BTO was much better than Tara
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waxwaves
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Grey9hound, the Emotiva sounds kinda hot on top in my experience, and not so resolute in the mids. The Emotiva did exibit a nice wide soundstage. Tried several, x-pa2, upa5... but my fav was the UPA-2. I will definately give my opinion of the Tara cable and am extremely pumped to hear it!

Audiolabyrinth, thanks again for the great input. What do you think of the Air 2 ics? Have you listened to those too? LOL! Honestly I am Looking forward to trying out the less forward sound of the Taras! Yeah,Good deals are nice!!! Would really like to hear the Quads 63 mentioned previously and learn more about those classics, maybe one day..

I usually use my best ic between amp and preamp for best results, but you never know what you're gonna get til you try... Always interested to hear others theories on this audio question. Maybe a new thread..."favorite interconnect from pre to amp or from source to pre?"

Thanks fellows!

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