Interconnect cables needed

sgb

You might want to try the Tributaries SCA 150's. At about $150.00, I am extremely pleased with them on my system.

 

Who sells these?

Thnx

 

Steve, there is lots of fine cable to be had in your price range.

My personal favorite is MITCable.

I racall trying one popular brand that I thought was horrible, Audioquest. The terminators are flimsy, the cables develop shorts and aren't very flexable, and I got a very compressed, in your face sound. I don't recall the name but it's not made anymore. In fact, I don't really see their ads much anymore.

 

I have several Audioquest ICs, but most of them are their earlier models (15+ years old, I'd guess). Their original Diamondbacks are running between my ULD-12's and their crossovers, and have been doing a great job; I run their then top-of-the-line IC from my tuner to my preamp. Their Type 8 s peaker cable has been doing yeoman's duty 'roun' here for almost as long -- not as extended as the An alysis Plus, but with a bit more smoothness and greater imaging. Tried the Harmonics and Spectral ICs -- again, more high end extension, but not as smooth on the top as I'd like. I'll be ordering the Homegrowns for a trial since they have a money-back offer, but I'm beginning to think that I like my sound a little more polite than most of the folks here do. ::ˆ

 

I got mine at a local dealer. Try Audio Advisor or http://www.tributariescable.com

 

cadillacjack, I finally decided to order a pair of these cables since they were only slightly more than I wanted to pay (I need 1.5 meter run to reach from preamp to amp).

Have ya got any idea how long it takes these wires to break in?

 

It's hard to say. I estimate it took about 50 hrs to stabilize. I heard a difference right out of the box but it gets better.

Good luck,

CJ

 

That's great Gary, glad to hear it all worked out .

Are they a hyper pure copper or a copper/silver combo.?

 

interconnects

Couldn't hardly pick a more contraversial topic. Your description of harmonic Tech. cables sounded like an exact description of the cable before they're broken in. They are notorious for needing a long break-in. They begin life sounding lean and a little bright. I have some experience with them. Though am sure it would be hard to get anything significantly better in the near price range. There is a co. that makes what is called a 'MOBIE' that will break in any cords and interconnects in 10 days or less.

djose

 

With a large grain of NaCl:

Well folks, after viewing this thread I couldn't resist chiming in with my two cent's worth and tell y'all what wire works best for your's truly.

After long years of fretting over speaker cables and interconnects and searching for THE utopian "wire" for my high-end gear I finally focused on some of the sharpest electron conveying stuff on the planet: I settled on barbed wire from farmer Jone's south pasture! So, how does one come by this magical wire? Well, it's always best to audition at night to get the most favorable results; the only drawback being the high and low clipping accompanied by severe roll off before you ever get it home. Once in your system, however, you should never have to worry about break-in again.

Note: When seeking out this wire always endeavor to avoid the 12 gauge farmer Jone's also has in stock; it's a VERY effective conductor, but the psycho-acoustic effect of pumping noises combined with the perceived limitations of unshielded copper usually results in a spotty [COLOR=dark-blue]wetness[/COLOR] that's at first warm and pleasant but becomes rapidly irritating. Transients with this wire should be fast and smooth, avoiding the buckshot effect.

Once procured, you should raise this unshielded wire off of the floor via glass telephone insulators so that the electrons will properly move from amplifier to speaker without any unforseen tetanus inducing missteps, such as the "bare foot yowl syndrom" (i.e., a more gut-level type of wow & flutter called Ow & Utter)!

Well, I hope that these observations will be of some use in directing budget challanged audiophiles to the best bang for their buck(shot); audio being the adventure that it is, if you're clever enough to maneuver around all the bull and the pumped-up hype you should do just fine!

Cheers,
Robert (aka Cat)

 

Re: With a large grain of NaCl:

Well, Robert (aka Cat), you shoulda let me know last week before I ordered that pair of cables from Homegrown and spent all that money! There's a cow pasture 'bout a mile or so down the road from my house with half a roll just sittin' out next to some cow pies near the farmer's shed. (Rust won't effect the sound any, I guess?)

But I hope you're not trying to pull a guy's leg with this. I remember visiting an audiophile friend in another city years ago who had been loaned some IC cables that some test marketers had developed. It was kinda neat lookin' - just two thin wires braided, one red, one white - and these marketing fellers were looking for some answers. How much should these cables sell for? $300 a meter, my friend thought and said so. Then they told him that they had some purple and gold stuff out in the trunk of the car, and bein' as I'm from Louisiana, I barged in and said they should test market the stuff down here in LSU country, but that us cajuns are always lookin' for a deal, so they'd better mark it with a $500 price tag, then reduce it to $79.99 at the cash register.

At any rate, my friend described the red and white ones as one of the most dynamic and transparent cables he'd ever heard, and asked whether they needed a distributor. I thought to myself that they were a little ringy in the higher frequencies, and felt like I was soon gonna be gettin' some visitors so I better make some lemonade; but I wondered why my friend would ask about a distributor since most cars today use electronic ignition - was he goin' to re-wire his car with this stuff? Turns out a month later that I got a phone call from my friend saying that he found a source for the wire (doorbell wire available at Home Depot) and it all became clear to me then. That explained the ringing