I reread this post, it sounds like I’m a fanboy, but I’m really not. I do enjoy my investment over the years in Kimber Kable. Quality Customer Service is important.
I have become attached to my Kimber interconnects and speaker cables in my ‘mid-fi’ rig. They are a great company to work with. Called them up and ordered custom speaker cable lengths for my 11.2 system. I’m running 8VS front L/C/R, 4VS & PR for others, Of course each pair of cables is equal length, I’m old fashioned. I have in wall wiring for rear speakers. I also have Hero interconnects, and the Kimber copper phono cable for my TTs and some Timbre interconnects for the old vintage equipment. Almost all of this was ordered directly by telephone to Kimber and purchased directly from them. Having custom length speaker cables and interconnects are great until you have move. The thing about the move was that I needed an extension to my TT cables. They made up an extension for me from the same spec cable used in their TT cables, with female RCAs on one end and male RCAs on the other, enabling me to continue to use my C2 preamp without any issues. I can’t detect any tonal character change in the sound of the TT, which is a result. The company is great to work with even if you only buy a pair of their lowest priced interconnects first as I did. Or asking for short jumpers made to measure. Since I have been using Kimber as my cable supplier for years now, I admit I have some cable in a drawer as a result of my last move, but this is offset by the consistency product to product. Good cables are worth the price for sure. I can’t afford the high priced stuff, but the low and mid quality is outstanding value for the money.
BTW, my system is a mix of Yamaha vintage (C2, T2 & M4) and New school Yamaha RX-A3060 AVR, Kef LS50 (7; L/C/R, FPR L/R, Surround L/R), Kef 102Ref rear surround L/R, and M&K Dipoles RPR L/R. Sources; AR The Turntable and Braun P600 TT, Sony TC765 RtR, NAK RX505, Oppo 203, Tascam D-3000. All recordings I make are stereo through Hero to the Analog 2 channel setup vintage pre. The output is through the AVR to the M4 driving the L/R LS50s and the pair of vintage Def Tech Subwoofers (no processing).
It all sounds excellent to me, coherent, consistent, capable and versatile. I have some Audio Quest cables and they are good, but the customer support and value from Ray Kimber's company has been excellent. No extra BS, just quality cables, delivered as promised on time.
