Does anyone know if neutral cables exist


I need a neutral cable so I hook up my system of Conrad-Johnson tube gear. I paid the money to hear the electronics not the cables!!! I don't want to adjust the tonality at all. What can I get that sounds like "no" cables
tbonephile

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It's good that you're happy. I'm trying to get those for trial, but things are slow with the dealer I'm using. The Clearausio RCA connectors are what intrigue me the most. I hear that they are better than other brass/copper blended connectors, like WBT.
AlbertPorter is dead on, re "neutrality"!...............I'm trying a one meter Gold Eclipse III RCA interconnect right now, besides VERY many others. With either my tube power amplifier, or tubed headphone amplifier, I feel that it is very smooth, so much so that the treble range takes on (mostly) the same character, no matter which recording. All the other cables I'm trying don't do this. However, the GE3 is perhaps the least fatigueing silver interconnect I've ever heard (even though the treble range is still the slightest bit forward). It is a "very nice" cable, definitely worth the used price, IMO..................One thing I'm finding is that it is almost impossible to get that "tube midrange" that I'm after with a silver interconnect (my amp is NOT a 300B, or 2A3). However, this "midrange" CAN be had with my silver speaker cable (Dragon plus), provided the interconnect is copper...or perhaps gold..............Cardas makes "neutral reference" cables, and my experience with them has been that they are neither "neutral", nor a "reference". However, the name supposedly implies a consistent character, with regard to "no matter what length, they 'sound the same'". I have no idea whether this is true. It could be, I suppose, at least in a practical sense.
Thanks Tre, yes, I'm familiar with them. I thought all of those inexpensive connectors were mostly brass. Are your sure they aren't just copper plated, and then nickel/gold plated, over brass? I thought they were. I've emailed Kimon before, and his price to do Leap design is twice what perhaps the most prominant designer's in the world, is. Of course, that's if that one has time...which he really doesn't.
I too, have been trying many cables for six months. I've not tried the Nirvana, and plan to try that NBS Monitor 3 interconnect with my pentode/triode tube amp, besides my Krell. I've been hearing different instruments playing the same notes simultaneously for a while, but there are different degrees of this with different cables...besides how much of the dynamic envelop you're willing to sacrifice, to get there. I've had Robert Harley's older reference interconnects for a while (MIT 350 EVO), and still prefer them to everything else, more or less. I'm trying different speaker cables also, but can't afford the MIT Oracle right now. It'd mean two different ones also, one for the tube amp, one for the Krell, so that's really out of the question.