Same! Great cable... very transparent, detail and clarity aplenty. I bought from this guy. Great service and fast shipping.
I would say the 2549 is a little more dense (warmer perhaps in some systems), and the 2497 a bit more open/transparent. To my ears in my system. At the moment I like the combination of 2497 between source/preamp and 2549 between preamp/amp to balance out my system.
Yes it’s coaxial wire, so it has low capacitance. What’s the problem? Usage defines an object; not the other way around.
Technically, the 2549 is a balanced microphone cable, so you're not using it for its intended purpose either
I have no idea what you mean. Exactly, those figures are good. Low capacitance is beneficial for MM cartridges and its double shielding makes it good for LOMC cartridges. I don’t get why “it would be more suitable for an s/pdif cable”…
I mostly use Videoquest MAC 3-1 75 Ohm coax cable for analog interconnects. It is as quiet as any RCA interconnect I have tested using my "Kyocera flip pre-out/main-in switch back and forth during quiet part of tune while cranking it" test. The internal/"normal" connection is dead silent and differences among cables in what I am 99.9% certain is shielding effectiveness is clearly noticeable under these extreme testing conditions.
I just hooked up three pairs of 2549 with Amphenol ACPL RCA's. Got the blue ones just to look different. I discovered my Transparent Musiclink's were too high capacitance for phono (close to 200pf/m even for their phono cable). Mogami 3103 swapped in for speakers to be Mogami front to back. I dressed those up with the Techflex/pants etc. Performance Audio for all. Made to order. I can report back about the sound after I get my Darlington Labs phono back from upgrade.
Man, it's placebo city around here with this Mogami rig. If I didn't know better I'd say my system never sounded so good! Yikes!
Why should it be placebo? Those Mogami's are great cables - I should know, I've used them extensively and still own some. And even if your own brain (or the anti-cable police) told you otherwise they cost so little they're basically the Krypotonite to the high priced cable "snake oil" argument, so you're safe
I make my RCA cables from Mogami W2965 and Neutrik Rean NYS373 interconnects. Low capacitance and no noise from them even when the interconnects turn into a tangled mess even with power cords.
Is anyone ever truly safe? I tried Mogami Gold balanced interconnects for a few years in my system but they were a step down from my previous single ended cables. I ended up trying some Cardas balanced cables and liked those better than the Mogami.
Well this had me wondering between the 2497 that I have for my phono interconnects, and the “digital” 2964. Worlds Best Cables sells the same length, same connector 2497 for over double the price of the 2964. ($89 vs $32ish). why would that be? Capacitance is indeed lower on the 2964. What quality is driving the 2497 that much higher in price?
Expressing opinions these days is indeed an increasingly risky business. So I take your point. Same as you, I ran Mogami's (and Canare) for quite a while. Great value cables but like you I've moved on. As a value prospect however I don't see how the average punter can go wrong? I'm sure you'd agree they punch well above their asking price? Or have I assumed too much?
The price was low, and funnily enough, I picked them up at a Guitar Center in real life after work one day, so they also score a point for availability. I don't know how well they compare to other similarly priced cables, but I wasn't mad at them. Hopefully that much was clear when I said I used them for a few years I tried the Mogami Gold digital AES/EBU cable also, but it was also a fairly large step down from the Stereovox and Cardas I already had: that experiment went less well than the interconnect one. At least it gave me another AES/EBU cable to experiment with and have as a backup.
