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Upgrading-Clear Days to Nordost Tyr 2 or Frey 2 vs Cerious Matrix IC's and speaker cables

Hello everyone. I need your help.
I’m in the process of upgrading my Clear Day double shotgun speaker cables and IC’s.
I prefer musicality, micro and macro dynamics, speed and transients, and air and soundstage width and depth vs warmth.

I am very happy with what my Clear days are delivering I just want a more refinement in what it does well.
The ClearDays are generally neutral with good soundstage width height and depth. Musical but not overly warm, or thick sounding. Good bass presense with nice but not overly harsh highs. I am looking for more front to back layering of the sound-stage, detail in the mids and lows, plus balanced bottom to top performance across the entire frequency spectrum.

My 2 channel listening system consists of a Modwright Oppo with a GEC U52 rectifier and 75 silver shield "holy grail reflectors" output tubes. My amp is currently a BAT VK-6200 feeding into PSB T3’s supplemented with a REL S5. I use REL bassline Blue and AQ Boxer cables to connect my REL S5.

Has anyone demo’d both Nordost and the Matrix lines?
How do they compare? What is the Matrix house sound vs the Nordost?
Performance wise how does Matrix compare to both Frey 2 and Tyr 2?

Thanks everyone for your input and help. :)


chazzzy007
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hifiman5
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@tuberist
A big +1! Paul Laudati, God rest his soul, knew what he was doing and how to recommend the right cables for a specific system. Then again there is no "universal" cable that will sound great with all systems!
chazzzy007 OP
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Thanks to @tweak1 @hifiman5 and @tuberist for your comments here.
In appreciative memory of Paul who many of us got a chance to know through the years. Great guy and such a loss for our community.

My Puritanlabs 156 conditioners are a very recent addition and they are breaking in now. The process is much like breaking in an amp as the sound character is evolving and although not finished breaking in I am very pleased with the improvement in SQ. I changed out a CPT 1800 and I must say it is several huge steps up in both current delivery and SQ with the 156’s vs the CPT 1800.

@tuberist What Nordost cables did you have in your system and how do the Clear Days compare to them???


chazzzy007 OP
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@tweak1 
In what ways do the Wireworld's better your Clear Days???
tweak1
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First I sold them several years ago, so not much memory, but

WW cables are designed by a professional (David Salz) who understands the various electromechanical issues (capacitance, inductance and skin effect) that affect signal transfer

Paul’s cables and jacketing were extremely simple, with no regard for what it could be doing wrong

hth
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unfairlane
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  Guys, none of those mentioned (or other) cables even comes close to the pure, calm and shocking dynamic signal you can get from a thick (minimum 9awg) solid copper conductor. Simply because they represent a much lower resistance and eliminates interference, just what your amp asks for.

In fact, no conductor on the secondary (low current) site should be thinner than 9awg solid core.
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