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Time to upgrade my PS Audio Quintet

I currently own a PS Audio Quintet and while it works well, I am hoping to find something that adds more transparency and reduces grain. My primary components are;

Exposure 2010S2 Integrated Amp
Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD/SACD Player
Dell Laptop / Wavelength Proton DAC
Spendor A6 Loudspeakers
Analysis Plus Interconnects and Speaker Cable
DH Labs Power Cords

I have the Exposure plugged straight into the wall and everything else into the Quintet. As I mentioned above, my main goal is to take the edge off the system. While I care about frequency extremes, they are not as important as a natural, transparent, uncolored midrange. Anyone who's used a Quintet and moved to something better, what is it? Around $1500.00 or so is my budget.

Products I am considering;

PS Audio Power Plant Premier
Shunyata Hydra & Guardian
Synergistic Research QLS 6 & 9

Thanks,

John Allen
allenjohns
allenjohns OP
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Bacardi, my power amp cord is a DH Labs Power Plus.

Srwooten, what is 6N copper and how does it differ from OFC? Is Oyaide the only company that uses it?
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srwooten
694 posts
 
6N= 6 nines copper or 99.9999% pure. OFC= oxygen free copper. There are several good companies that use 6N or even 7N wire. Harmonic Tech, Acrolink, and others. Oyaide is continuous cast copper- I am not sure of its purity but I believe it is 6N.
karmatogdral
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hi John,
I'm also using Spendor speakers and thinking of getting Analysis plus cables, what interconnect and speaker cables do you recommend?
allenjohns OP
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Karmatogdral, I was using silver coated copper cables from DH Labs. I've read that silver cables can add glare and grain to the sound so I moved to copper cabler from Analysis Plus. Copper Oval-In IC's and Black Oval 9 SC. The AP cables have about 80 hours on then and are just starting to open up. So far I'm happy with them.
karmatogdral
66 posts
 
I'm thinking about going up to solo crystal oval 8, have you compared the two? Oval 9 and oval 8?
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