Cable Quest


By reading these forums, I've noticed a number of people who have tried many different brands of SCs and ICs. Would you please tell me what you've tried and what you finally settled on and why? Thanks

bzawa

Just bought some Veritas top of their line cables and they are fantastic cables.  Much better SQ than my Audioquest Coffee USB and Audio Envy IC’s which I thought were pretty good cables.  I am just amazed at how much better my system sounds with reference quality cables.  Now I fully understand how much impact very high quality cables can improve SQ.  Took me awhile to get here.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/veritas-cables-a-new-brand-that-i-found

I can second the recommendation for Veritas Cables. I've tried so many brands over the years, many of which I loved. Some were very high end and costly, others not as much. But after all those brands I can't think of another which offered quite the same blend of value and performance that Veritas does. I've compared several different times with different categories (interconnects, USB, power) and although I can sometimes find another brand that gives similar levels of performance, it has always been a far more expensive cable. 

At this point I've replaced pretty much everything but my speaker cables with Veritas products. Those will probably be next before the year is over. 

@kofibaffour  Well good for you — you get to save some nice $$$ to spend on something else.  Just goes to show how important it is to be able to try cables in your system first or buy used to limit risk. 

The sound of new cables change for about 200 hrs or so......they also sound different depending on what they're attached to.

Like @soix I have had very good luck with Acoustic Zen for speaker and interconnects. Important note, for any cables, allow a minimum of three days in the system before you come to any conclusions about a cable. I have found that the AZ’s take at least that long to show their true character.