I replaced my Shunyata cables with a complete set of Triode Wire Labs interconnects and speaker cables. I find them to be warmer than the Shunyata.
Who makes the best copper cables?
I’m a hardcore cable dork
I’ve been through many cheaper copper cables and even more medium to higher priced silver cables.
I mainly own Furutech project v1
but they are not a cable. After they warm up they disappear from the system which is great. I love that. But I’ve tried to make everything in my system like that
now I want to add a little of that thick voluptuous copper timbres into my system.
I know copper can be just as resolving as most silver. Clarus crimson was unreal in details but it was too slow,dark and bloomy
i do not like cables that have capacitors to try and artificially alter sound staging also do not like shunyata. Good but too cool and artificial sounding
Anyone have any recommendations?
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I’ve had iconolast lop of the line xlr and it got sent back. Way over priced. Sounds like a wannabe tyr2 and the tyr2 is good but not great. reel to reel can create some unbelievable timbral colors. Some of which I haven’t heard since a kid with cassette tapes. If the cabling they used hadnt been so transparent, those colors would have been skewed. Being that they weren’t, I knew the cable might be just what I need. Will be doing a direct comparison with furutech project v-1
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@squared80 : Back in the Days of Yore 'philes used Radio Shack/Tandy gray Switchcraft cables. Nobody complained! Then around 1976 DiscWasher brought out Gold Ens IC's. I bought some. Noel Lee started Monster speaker wire, soon followed by Monster IC's. I have some of the much later Monster Reference IC's, bought cheap from an estate sale. By 1977 Mitch Cotter was selling his TriAxial cables for the very reasonable price of $30 a meter. I bought six pairs plus a phono cable ($35). Mitch claimed a lower noise floor due to superior shielding. I still have those Cotter cables buried somewhere in storage. |
Cables are poison to a good system. Plain and simple. I trust my ears not other peoples opinions. While I never went into forums and ridiculed people that thought other wise, I was never a believer in them either. Then I bought and sold hundreds of pieces of equipment trying to get a sound I liked. It was always good but never as good as what I heard in the shops or at shows. Then a friend sent me a usb cable to try and it opened my eyes. Next step was auditioning cables. My mindset what what cables are adding better goodies to the sound. Then I received project v1 to audition and realized that all these other cables, while good, the good qualities they had were merely just imperfections. The v1 opened up a window. No constrictions. However, like I said I’m a cable dork and acknowledge there might still be even better. I mention all of this because I had a $22k brand new first in the. US esoteric n01xd se and arc ls28se. I thought just going big on my dac would be what I needed. It was nice. But when I got the cabling I sold all of my electronics and went to work on good cabling, conditioning/grounding, fixing my network. Now, my base is so good that even when I have just my 8 year old denon home theater receiver plugged into my network and streaming qobuz, I have more detail, insight and stability than I ever had with the expensive electronics. In fact aside from the separation of instruments and natural timbres, my system sounds better than pretty much 99% of what I hear at shops and shows. Even a cheap but good cheaper dac and a nice tube pre should be all I need to have a system that I will finally enjoy |
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