Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments?

I am going to give the Acoustic Ref and Accelerator products a try from the Cable Co. Has any tried these two cable series? Is there that much of a difference?

Tboooe, by all accounts, the difference is very substantial, favoring the newer, cheaper Tesla over the older, more expensive series. The owner of SR states as much.

I ordered my first pair of Tesla Accelerator ICs a week ago. I'm patiently waiting for them (and to order the balance of the full complement that my system needs), since good cables are about all I need to finish off my system.

geojop, thanks for the reply but i was referring to the acoustic Ref which is part of the Tesla line and the accerlerator.

Tesla Apex update:

These cables definitely need extensive break-in, even after the factory treatment.

They are great out of the box, but start to close in at around 75 hours. This lasts until the 150 hour mark where they begin to open up again...then they start to improve significantly.

The sound stage opens up and expands beyond the original sound...at 200 hours it is still improving.

The biggest difference is in the detail, the fine grain is starting to come out. Old recording (listened to thousands of time) reveal new sounds (or sounds that where there were a bit blurry). I use the analogy with digital photography - it's like going from 4 mega pixels to 12.

Everything improves - the soundstage becomes circular versus flat staggered cutouts. In other words the sounds seem to emanate in concentric circles from the instruments vs. front to back projection. The sound wraps around the room. Images are defined in shape, firmly anchored, and of realistic size and shape. All adding to the realism. Bells and triangle strikes hang in midair and radiant in 3-D space.

The growing fine detail lets you "hear" the resonance of the wood like never before (striking on acoustic guitar and piano). It gets hard to explain the effect. Sounds fade into a deep dark background. The tones are very neutral and natural, never pitched one way or the other.

One thing to note, the amount of information on 30 yr old Redbook recordings ( especially remastered editions) are still beyond our systems ability to retrieve. I'm hearing faint background vocals and instruments I never heard before.

The best of all - ALWAYS completely relaxed and unfatiguing, and more so as the break-in evolves. You can listen for hours on end without wanting to stop.

I love the way you can turn the volume up as loud as your system will permit and never feel a pinch in the ear, in fact more details continue to emerge. Everything from acoustic vocals to alternative sound silky smooth. If you love to play alt and emo LOUD, you will love these cables.

I get the feeling they will take several hundred hours of playing to fully breakin.

Updates to follow...

I just got my first pair of Accelerator ICs in the mail after waiting about 2-1/2 weeks (they are a hot date at the moment). After several hours of listening, these are my initial conclusions.

1) I will be purchasing the balance of the full Accelerator set for my system.

2) I had to find the best place to put this one pair of ICs in the midst all the Nordost Red Dawns. The best spot proved by far to be between the source and the preamp.

3) Everything that the previous posters have stated from their experience is pretty much true in my system.

4) My Red Dawn's give a very well-defined image with exquisite detail, but they also are definitely lean in the mids and they can produce some glare at times. The big difference that I notice by inserting the SR's is that the response is accurate throughout the entire frequency spectrum now. Bass, mids, treble are all represented equally, which is very nice. That's what I was looking for when I bought these (along with the excellent imaging and detail, which I already had).

5) I don't know yet if this is exactly a good or bad thing, but the ultra-high frequencies that were so pronounced with the Red Dawn and gave the sense of extreme detail resolution are now gone. The low-level detail is there still, but it is softer. Less pronounced expression of softer details is most likely more accurate.

6) All the good things that my system previously had are still there, like the detail, sound staging, imaging and dynamics. Keep in mind that I use ribbon speakers though, so your mileage may vary with boxes or horns. The sound is overall much more complete throughout the frequency range now, and thus much more pleasing.

7) One change occurred that will be hard to explain. Someone described it above, if I remember correctly. The instruments previously were well-defined in a 3-D space, but those instruments now appear to have been like flat cardboard cutouts in the past. Now the instruments have shape and volume in addition to their location in space. Very odd and unexpected effect but it definitely exists. It does sound like the instruments are more of a "sphere" with volume now.

This is all with just with one cable. I can't wait to see what it will sound like once I have the signal path full of Accelerators. My new quandry is: which slot to fill next? Replace the Symo speaker wire or the Red Dawns between the preamp and amp?

Here is a pic of them in my system. They are the black ICs between the Creek CDP and Mod Squad Deluxe Line Drive passive preamp.
http://www.jasonphillips.org/offsite/SR_Tesla_ICs.jpg