Audioqest Wild Wood or Tara Lab Omega Gold?

"Audiolabyrinth. I do have the same question for you. What is it that you like in this brand more than others. What was the trigger for you. I have to tell you really sound like if you own some of the Cie. Very specific and very enthusiastic listener. I need more input in musical terms.

I've been reading Audiolabyrinth's posts for quite a while, and have though about why he must use Tara cables. I may be wrong, but this is just my best guess. I think we all have expectations as to what type of sound we like. And some things much more important than others. For me, the highs have to be perfect or I can't listen to the system. Other areas, I can compromise a bit, but just not the highs. With others, bass may be the area that has to be perfect. For Bo, I think everyone on AG can answer that 3D is his special area.

For Audiolabyrinth, I'm not exactly sure what his must have area is, but I think Tara cables provide it. Whatever those cables do for his system, its clearly his must have. But remember, I'm just guessing so it could be something else.

Hi zd542, your post is the most comprehensive and honest that I've ever seen to me in my entire audiogon existence, thankyou, if you desire my history story, I can share that concerning taralabs, however, I'm going to be direct,in 2013 I went from taralabs model the one interconnect to the Zero Gold, I was stunned at the lowered noise floor and separation of music within space and the details of treble, mids, bass,etc..., in late mid 2014, I got my hands on the Omega gold speaker cable's, I was using the one speaker cable's, when that happened, I heard the most detail I've ever heard out of anything I ever owned, that's going back to the early 80s!, this was the cable's I dreamed of owning one day because of the price of admission, literally has taken me from 1996 till these last recent couple of years to achieve, then, damn! Taralabs came out with the new two top model's of cable's, may not ever own the Grandmaster cable's, but my new goal is going after the Evolution zero and evolution omega, Evolution power cable as well, being the 1-meter Cobalt with oyaida terminations power cable made a significant difference with lowered noise floor and natural sound stage,yes I've heard the news cable's, made me sick! , no my current system does not qualify the Grandmaster, but mmmm, the Evolution cables are a winner for me, cheers to you zd542.

Very nice and friendly answer.
All of you seems to be happy with your toys.
Lucky we are. Glad we can be.
I am aiming for the AQ Wild.
Looking for one.
Then I let you know.
The system, is 825, Criterion. Aeris from Jeff Rowland.Playback design and a pair Revel Ult.2 Salon2 or a sharp pair of Magico .The mini2.
And in the background a pair of Artemis eos1.
I will soon be looking for a sub.
Cables Purist 20th ann. Nordost. And I stil have some Zen Hologram from a while ago.
The main thing is the library. More than 12000 Cds. Same with Lps
It has been an interesting journey. Full of music.Daily.
About 6 times a year i do organize live concerts.
Even better or frustrating when I go back the the system.
Thanks to all.

Let me throw another cable into the mix.
Siltech Triple Crown new interconnect.
Anyone heard it against Tara Labs Grandmaster or AQ Wel Signature?

Audiolabryrinth: "AWG" refers to "American Wire Gauge", a standard unit of measure for a single piece of "wire". When someone lists something of the form 6+ AWG, it is probably meant to imply the wire is more than 6 gauge (and probably less than 7 gauge depending upon written context). For audio cables, or any cables of any kind made up of more than one conductor, you need an "effective gauge" calculator to determine the actual effective gauge of the resulting cable made up of more than one piece/strand of wire of a particular gauge and/or multiple strands of wires each of different gauges.

For example, if you have a cable made up of 10, 24 awg wires, its effective gauge is 14, not 24. Multi-gauge calcs of multiple wire/strands for each gauge (typical of many audio cables) yield more interesting results. As you can imagine, "big bad audio" power cables and speaker cables generally are of lower effective gauges and things like interconnects, etc...are of higher effective gauge.

***Note: I say "generally" as there are clearly many exceptions to this observation for many good reasons....***

Reasonably good effective gauge calcs for both single-gauge and multi-gauge blends can be found in many places on the web,...here is one that yields good results;

http://www.wirebarn.com/Wire-Calculator_ep_42.html

If you wanted to determine the effective gauge of any of your Tara Cables, you'd need to know the specifics of what goes into it.

See Wikipedia for more detail on AWG, what it means to wire, composite cables, etc...and other listings on the web regarding effective gauge for more details...