Cardas Golden Cross no longer offered by Cardas ?

If musical means no highs and a emphasis midrange, Cardas golden certainly do the trick!
I never find any cardas neutral enough to fit a high end system. On a bad speaker with agressive highs and no medium, it's probably a good choice.
anyway it's too bad to buy a bad cable to compensate a bad system...

Cardas Golden Cross can be fantastic sounding , especially if you like listening mostly to Rock music. I guess everyone has different ears. I have had great success with the Cardas Golden Cross in my system.

It is the first time I post an answer here, because for me the Golden Cross just sounds right. Perhaps the Golden Cross is not neutral, but what is neutral?. In my opinion, it is just natural sounding. It is the only cable I tried that doesn't sound artificial and hifi, and that does fully justice to my MFA Luminescence preamp and Jadis JA200 power amp, both owned since 1990. If I put just one neutral cable (in the audiophile sense) in there, music is gone. You just need the right tubes in your amps and Golden Cross interconnects and speaker cables. I have the Golden Crosses in my system for 5 years now and I'm done. I never even think about changing anything again. It is just the fullbodied, harmonically rich and natural sound I was looking for. If you play a musical instrument yourself, you will love this cable.
For all musiclovers, it is a pity Cardas stopped offering the Golden Cross. Sadly, all good things tend to disappear... Same with good NOS tubes. Have fun listening to your music everybody!

Overall, I think the current trends of more revealing/fatiguing products selling at vastly inflated prices is killing the audio industry.

It's been many years since business school, but higher cost + lower long term satisfaction doesn't seem like the best response to down economic times (or any other actually).

The business model of sign a big advertising contract in exchange for glowing reviews has been suicide for the industry. How many former excellent high end audio stores are either gone or operating out of someone's basement?

10 years ago or so I fell in love with the Purist Audio Musaeus's that I used for all IC's and speaker cable. I loved the musical, non-fatiguing, deep, large and rich sound from these guys.

I lost a pair in a recent move and replaced them with the newest version. The new ones dropped the old sound to jump on the revealing/fatiguing bandwagon. Cable Company said they're pretty much all that way these days (except MIT and Cardas). Argh!!!

Actually, I have heard many say the newer Cardas Clear cables are more revealing too.

The problem is that most manufacturers spend more time trying to please their critics than they spend trying to please their fans.

Many "musical" components and cables have been becoming more revealing. Meanwhile, companies know for their high resolution, ARC, Lyra, and Nordost are trying to become more musical.