Chris, swallow hard and trust me on this. Many, many cables take 250 hours of continuous signal running through them to fully settle and open up.
As hard as this is to believe, and I most certainly know that a lot of people think it hogwash, it never-the-less is real.
Your cables may or may not end up being to your liking, but give them a week or so of constant juice before making any judgements.
I've had cables go from heavy and completely lifeless to thin and splashy, back to heavy and muddy, open up a little, then a lot, but without focus, back to muddy, then awesome bass but no sparkle up top, to wide open and glorious. All within the first couple of hundred hours.
You'll start getting close to their final sound when the focus becomes more consistent and the imgaging begins taking well placed shape.
Audioquest is the real deal and I've run many of their cables over the years. They'll show up after a couple of hundred hours and then you'll know if they compliment your gear or not.
As hard as this is to believe, and I most certainly know that a lot of people think it hogwash, it never-the-less is real.
Your cables may or may not end up being to your liking, but give them a week or so of constant juice before making any judgements.
I've had cables go from heavy and completely lifeless to thin and splashy, back to heavy and muddy, open up a little, then a lot, but without focus, back to muddy, then awesome bass but no sparkle up top, to wide open and glorious. All within the first couple of hundred hours.
You'll start getting close to their final sound when the focus becomes more consistent and the imgaging begins taking well placed shape.
Audioquest is the real deal and I've run many of their cables over the years. They'll show up after a couple of hundred hours and then you'll know if they compliment your gear or not.