Best interconnect between pre-amp and CD player??

Sunnyjim,

Here's my 2 cents worth. Try a pair of Mapleshade Excalibur ICs.
http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/Clearview-Excalibur-Analog-Ribbon-Interconnects/productinfo/EAIC%2DST/.

I found an old pair in a box of cables I had and just for the heck of it, tried them.
It was like throwing open the window. Night and day, difference, etc. My system has gone through a couple of permutations and I hadn't used them since I began this hobby years ago.

I should have never taken them out.

You can read the testimonials on their site and check out what some say here as well. There is a 30 return policy if you don't like them. Just don't use anything to quicken the burn in process. The ones I have use different terminations than the ones they use now. Progress I guess. They look hand made but people don't seem to mind.

Hope this helps you hasten your journey so you can sit back and enjoy.

All the best,
Nonoise

That plastic bag is like having practically no dielectric at all. Nothing to mess with the signal. If you could hear them in my system you wouldn't knock them and I guess that's the basis for such a remark: you've never heard them.

You like Chord ICs because they make them for Naim? How about a former Martin Logan employee who swears by the Mapleshades? You can content yourself to naim dropping as can I but the proof is in the hearing. Does Chord allow a 30 day return policy?

This reminds me of when I first posted about the Mapleshade Helix speaker wires all those years ago and the heckling that followed. Then, a few years later others come out with the same formula to rave reviews.

Go figure.

All the best,
Nonoise

Rrog,

Sorry If I over reacted: it was late and I was enjoying a glass of Chilean cabernet franc. Hard to figure out intent over the internet.

As for the design, they do look delicate but I've always handled them with care until I put them in my cable bin box and they laid there at the bottom with all manner of junk on top of them. It seems you'd have to be pretty certain you'd want to damage them if that was your intent.

So many choices.

All the best,
Nonoise

While researching something else I came across these
http://www.jwaudio.net/default.html

They appear to take the minimalist approach like Mapleshade, Anti-Cables and Morrow and may be a less expensive to boot.

All the best,
Nonoise

Sunnyjim,

Back when I had Hornshoppe Horns and was speaking to Ed Schilling, he said Mapleshade ICs were easy to make and offered to make me a set of speaker cables like them. Even one of his stock photos on his site showed them being used as his primary cable at the time.

I can understand the reluctance to get them and even I thought I was going to damage them some time down the line but so far they have held up.

There's another thread here that I started about rediscovering the Mapleshade Helix cables and couple of users chimed in on how much they like the Double Helix. One day when I have the funds I'm going to try them myself. Right now I'm bi wiring on the same speaker posts using the regular Helix and a pair of Clear Day single strand silver cables and am loving the sound I'm getting. Those Double Helix runs just might eliminate the use of bi wiring but right now I'm just happy as all get out.

Good luck in what you choose.

All the best,
Nonoise