On the flip side, I also found the cables extremely revealing, to the point that studio rock became less fun by virtue of its often-compromised recording biases. Instruments occupied their own places in space, even in some complex, early-80s rock by Rush. The background was so quiet that the music seemed to suspend in space. Second, I have never been so at ease while listening to a CD. (My previous system contained the Sonic Frontiers Anthem Amp-1 and Pre-1 and a Rega Planet). I have never heard vocals so rich, immediate and warm in an audio system, as I found for instance with a Sara K. The components in the system were:įirst of all, voices were reproduced to degree of naturalness that was almost jaw-dropping.
Recently I listened to these cables at Innovative Audio in New York and I was almost floored by how great they sounded. I am happy with it now, but it took A LOT of fiddling to get there! Too much trouble to go through, IMHO. Even old regular cd's started to sound like audiophile reissues. And finally when I switched the AC power cable on the DAC from the custom-made Kimber (shielded 8TC) to a custom-made silver cable (6x1.3mm solid core 99.999 pure silver wire, fully shielded), I struck the ideal synergy and the sound of Red Dawn got totally transformed, it became very pleasant - detailed, timbrally correct, harmonically beautiful, unobtrusive and light on the ears - all that on very different types of music from jazz and classical to club and acid, and that's a good achievement for any cable. However, the timbral balance was still somewhat wrong, something was missing. But when I substituted the interconnects with AudioQuest Lapis, the emotional impact of the music went up dramatically. First I thought - what a pathetic performance for a $900 retail cable (it sounded this way both with tube and solid state). And after some time I realized that it should never be mated with Red Dawn interconnects – together they sounded totally uninvolving, boring and hard. But even after two weeks with 8TC system sounded much richer and more involving. When I first connected it I thought - it is not burned in yet, it sounds more or less OK, let’s just wait.
For example Kimber 8TC may be somewhat less spectacular overall, but it is much more universal, it's hard to find a system where 8TC would sound bad, and it is easy with Red Dawn. It is a VERY system dependent cable! Audition it with your equipment at home first!! Every cable is very system-dependent, but this cable is more so than many others.
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