Albert,you have clearly indicated what a "Mensch" you are.Alluding to this last post,and the "Classy" way you handled my friend!! Now are you in a possition to "Loan out" any Mercury, White Label Promos?
I just bought the new Aqueous Anniverary IC cable. And it is by far the best IC on my Musical Fidelity Nu-vista Power amp. I had many on my Nu-vista; Valhalla, MIT AC-1 Oracle, FIM Gold, Cardas Golden Ref, Siltech's. But compared to the Purist we are talking about superiority. The low freq. are by far the best I've ever heard. It goed a lot deeper. The middle are more open than all the other cables I've ever heard. And the high's are open but sweet.
I'm going on two weeks now on these Aqueous Anniversary interconnects and speaker cables. They keep getting better and more revealing all the time. The music is revealing details that I don't recall on previous listens. This is a terrific set of cables. Well worth the investment and a solid value as well.
Well I borrowed from the cable company the purist dominus interconnect cable (xlr) and was immediately floored by how great they sound relative to my nordost valhalla interconnect. They sounded great instantly even though the cable company said I would have to burn it in for a while (even though they are a used latest version (not ferox)).
My current system is:
Wilson Watt Puppy 7 Lamm 2.2 hybrid amp Emmlabs dcc2 and cdsd digital emmlabs cable between dcc2 and cdsd audience au24 speaker cable
Because of the hefty price of the dominus, I also asked to demo the Purist Aqueous Anniversary interconnect (xlr) and speaker cable.
Even though these are no doubt newer, it was immediately clear that the Purist aqueous Anniversary interconnect could not compete with the dominus.
Sure you could listen for 500 or so hours and the sound would no doubt improved but the difference is night and day.
I am not surprised how much better the dominus interconnect is given the price difference.
I have also tried the Purist Aqueous Anniversary speaker cables against the audience au24 speaker cable which is a good neutral speaker cable.
Sadly, the purist acqueous again was easily bested by the audience au24 cable. Here I was surprised since the price is similar and the acqueous anniversary is a purist model so I would have thought it would be even more compatible with the dominus interconnect.
Bottom line, dominus is king.
Too bad, I can't also afford the dominus speaker cable.
Karmapolice, If you want to go the PAD route, you might try a set of PAD Venusta speaker cables. Two years ago, I tested them against the Au 24 and preferred them in my system: Granite 657 tube CDP, Supratek Syrah, Spectron Musician II (now III) and Van Schwiekert VR5-HSE. I still use and enjoy them. The difference wasn't huge (the AU24 is great cabling), but was noticable, and the Venustas are far cheaper than the Dominus. David
Has anyone compared the Pure Note Paragon Enhanced and the PAD Aqueous/Venustas? I'm asking this because the Pure Note is among the best discoveries I had in the past two years. But if the PAD is really that better, I would like to home audition it too. Thank you very much.
Dan: I have auditioned the Venustas XLR balanced and AES/EBU digital interconnects. Both were sounding good. The only thing which bothered me a bit was the laid back and very polite sound of both the cables. I had less than 100 hours on them, so it is possible they haven't had enough break in time. I'm not familiar with the Aqueous, but I wonder how the speaker cable would sound.
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