If you decide to audition The Tara labs 0.8 ,,, I can tell you it is revealing with a slight warm good tone, and it is not forward sounding at all, which presents a realistic presatation with the sound stage, you get a good tast of three dimensionality with this speaker cable, but of course, you get better, more of everything when you move further up the Tara cable food chain, Happy Listening. |
@ Ssblnt99, Tara Labs just introduced new models of cables, The Omega gold is far beyound whats mentioned on this thread, However, The replacement of the Tara Labs Omega Gold Is the New Tara Labs Evolution Omega speaker cables, Tara labs claims is 75% better Than the Omega Gold, If you audition this cable, Be sure it is fully Broken-in, And please, Bring your Impressions to the Tara Labs Site Here on Audiogon, You would be the first, other than me, to listen to such a cable of this level of play back for home audio, The Evolution Omega Is second from the top, The New flag-ship cable is the Tara Labs Evolution Grandmaster I/C, Speaker cable, Power cord, The Gandmaster power cord will be introduced very soon, They have the proto-type now, look forward to your reply, Happy Listening. |
@ ssblnt99, BTW, for what it is worth, I use Krell with the Tara Labs Omega Gold, and in a year, will move on to the Tara Labs Evolution Omega speaker cables, what great synergy! |
@ Ssblnt99, Hi, I just E-mailed Tara Labs With break-in concerns of the Tara Labs cobalt power cords, In turn, Devon scott-vice president E-Mailed Mr. Mathew Bond Himself for my answers, I was supprised!, His answer was because of the complexity of the construction of the cobalt power cords, It will take hundreds of hours to break-in, end of quote.., wow!, Because I have a cobalt connected to a digital player, and most in my opinion only draws 25 to 40 watts from the wall, I will give the cobalt 600 to 700 hours of burn-in, now, a pre-amp draws a little more from the wall, I would say 400 to 500 hours of burn-in on that position, and the other Tara Cables, Give them 400 hours of burn-in as well, they will still improve beyound these hours, but you get most of the sound at 400 hours, This is a real pain in the aXX to go thru all this burn-in, I know, I am Burning in a cobalt now!,Make sure you come over to the Tara Labs thread two or three months from now and post your impressions there too., cheers. |
Thankyou and your welcome Ssblnt99, I look forward to read what you have to say on the Tara Thread. |
Audioquest Redwood against Tara Labs Omega Gold speaker cable, That's funny, I'm sure the Red wood is a good cable, However, The Omega gold is considered one of the best speaker cables available, It's in a different league, you made a good choice Ssblnt99, congrats are in order! |
Bo, It is not about what kind of metal the conductor is made of, it's the shape of the conductor and the dielectric, also the way the conductors are impemented in the windings geometry with tara Labs, The omega gold speaker cable has been a long standing known, As one of the best available speaker cables, out of all the types of cables Tara Labs makes, they are known for their speaker cables, as with other companys may be known for power cables such as shunyata research, the only speaker cables I know of, that are better than the Omega gold is Tara labs brand New Line, The Evolution Omega that Is second from the top, and the new Flagship speaker cable, The Evolution Grandmaster speaker cable, cheers. |
@ Ssblnt99, Hi, did you get the Tara labs Omega gold speaker cables yet?, if so, be sure to atleast do 400 hours, the cable still improves with more hours, however, you can enjoy what you do hear at this point of break-in, reply back, I look forward to this follow up. |
ok, power cords?, I thought you wanted speaker cables?, Not sure if you will like any of the power cords unless it's the new Grandmaster power cord, All the top tier Tara labs Interconnects and speaker cables I will recommend.cheers |
Ssblnt99, The Tara Omega gold speaker cables you are getting are a very profound speaker cable, The cobalt Power cord I own to, I have mixed impressions on that power cord, it has many good attributes, but some of the attributes I do not like, I will see how it pans out, I am not sure if it is wise to run a full loom Of Tara or any other cable for the first time!, The Zeo gold interconnect and Omega Gold speaker cables sound prolific together, when I use the cobalt with this set-up I have extrodinary clarity and Holographic sound, However, I am not happy with the thin bass, the bass seems to be over focused, It's a sound I am not familiar with, and do not like, my stock power cord with the other Tara cables has awsome bass with less clarity on the rest of the sound, I will see how this ends up, My amp is burning-in to 500 hours, I am at 159 hours, still, I cannot explain why the stock power cord on my digital player has so much better bass A/B the two power cords, just letting you know you might not like the cobalts, I also wanted you to know, try the speaker cables with other power cords, stock or not, you will not have problems with the speaker cables, they are incredible in every way possible, cheers. |
@ Ssblnt99, I agree with your statement, do some comparisions of the power cords, I would like to know the out come of that, The cobalt is a bitch to break-in, 500 hours, my cobalt is a used cord, I have a 3ft oyaide plug and IEC version, Keep me posted, cheers. |
Hi Ssblnt99, well, I am happy to tell you that the Tara labs cobalt with 678 hours of burn-in sounds a whole lot better now!, the bass is accurate and sounds good now, this power cord will go thru many changes, I have never exsperience such a long break-in in my life with anything, as it turns out, this is a good power cord for the asking retail price, most people do not give this power cord enough break-in before they give their impressions of the sound, I know, I was guilty of the same, glad I waited it out and gave the power cord a fair shake!, cheers. |
Ssblnt99, whats your first name?, any way, clerical error, I meant 578 hours and more on the cobalt power cord, regarding my last post, Rock you like a Hurricane! cheers. |
