Anticables


Does anyone have any experience with Anticables products? I spent over $600 on a pair of honestly cheap-looking ICs from them and after 400 or so hours burning them in I'm hard-pressed to tell the difference between them and an old set of no name ICs built from pro cable stock and heavy metal RCA connectors.

For all I know they are made out of regular bulk copper spools in a plastic sheath and wrapped in a Slinky.
madavid0

Showing 2 responses by williewonka

I would like to hear what gear and other cables you are using - as
Mitch4t requested.
madavid0, please tell us what kind of equipment you are running.

Amp?
Preamp?
Speakers?
Cd player?
DAC?
Turntable?
Cartridge?
Phono preamp?
And add to that list...
- Power Cables
- Speaker Cables
- other IC’s.

One pair of Anticables will not necessarily improve the sound of an entire system - if your other cables or components are lower resolving - you will hear little in the way of improvement.

Anticables adopt a different cable architecture that can effect component perofrmance and tend to provide much better performance when used with other Anticales of the same or higher model in the audio chain. 

When used with other brands they may not provide the anticipated improvement.

Also exactly where did you install the cables...
- between a source and pre-amp?
- between the pre-amp and power amp?

We need all of the details to assist in providing advice on how to resolve your issue.

Personally, I’ve spent a long time experimenting with cables and I have found that a single cable can impair the sound quality to varying degrees by attaching it to different components. That applies to both power and interconnect cables.

Regards...
Madavid0 - the two things in your system that may be SQ bottleneck...

The generic HDMI cables - I use Belkin cables and they outperform the other cables I've tried

The USB cable - I used the following cable.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Power-supply-and-USB-cable-separate-audio-signal-cable-/251589388236?ssPageN...:

It completely isolates the signal conductors from the power conductors and provided a significant improvement in SQ

I think you will find that replacing these two cables will allow the Anticables IC's to really show you what they can do

Hope that helps