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A question about Veritas cables

I've read a lot of good things about Veritas cables, and have one of their power cables in my system which seems to perform quite well. Now I'm interested in a pair of their Argentium X XLRs to connect my Denafrips Pontus 15th DAC to my Modwright KWI 200 integrated. I'm currently using a pair of Audience AU24 SE XLRs and I'm pretty happy with them. They sound quite musical and present good detail and imaging. To me their most compelling quality is the sense of composure they impart to the music, that is, how everything seems well balanced controlled. 

What I'm hoping to achieve with a different set of cables is a slight sharpening of the detail, but not at the expense of fullness and all-around musicality. For example, I tried out a pair of Cerious Technologies (graphene) XLRs a couple of years ago, but I thought those were a bit bright and not as pleasing to my ears as the Audience cables. 

Veritas uses silver conductors, and this gives me some cause for concern, as my pervious experiences with cables that contained silver were not very pleasing. Bright, slightly brittle, and in some instances, downright shrill. 

I have some budget constraints, which is why I was looking at the reasonably priced cables from Veritas. I can't see spending on cables whose price would be out of proportion to the value of the components they're connecting. Probably wouldn't hear the difference.

Would love to hear opinions from Argentium owners--would this be a worthwhile experiment, or should I just stay put? 

(Speakers: Ryan R610, sub: Elac Varro RS500)

 

 

cooper52
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996turbo911
238 posts
 

@macg19 What's the problem there? Are you saying you think it is BS, or AI generated, or what? Because it seems totally reasonable to me. The fact that OP, @lanx0003 and myself have all asked the same thing, means they probably do get this question regularly. The answer they gave me when I first emailed was along the same lines of the post above, but different enough to rule out copy/paste. I went back and forth with them for a while and all they were very helpful in addressing my unique concerns. I don't see what the problem is. 

@cooper52 I've been really happy with all the Veritas cables I own. Their signature seems focused on being smooth and organic or analog sounding, not bright at all. I've had silver cables which did what you talked about (brittle, shrill) but I've also heard copper based cables sound like that too. Probably related to the totality of design and not just materials. Veritas models don't do that in my system.

macg19
1,463 posts
 

@996turbo911 I’m saying it’s BS. But very smooth BS.

 

inagroove
302 posts
 

If you like the Audience AU24 SE XLRs, try the Audience frontRow XLRs.

cooper52 OP
214 posts
 

Thanks for the responses so far. There’s some very helpful information here, and I read the (okay, slightly controversial) Veritas response quoted by lanx0003 with great interest. The only way to really answer this question is to try a pair of these now- discontinued Argentium X’s myself. Veritas has a stock of these cables that they took in as returns or demos, so I ordered a pair. They’ll be here pretty soon and I look forward to hearing them in my system. I’ll certainly post my impressions when I’ve had a chance to assess them. 

 

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