Man, I’m SO tempted to just say yes, but my experience is that cables can be such a crapshoot who the hell knows? I personally think there’s more than one road to success here, so unfortunately that means it’s really a trial and error affair in the end. I actually have all Acoustic Zen except for power cables that are Cullen, but I’ll likely try an AZ power cable at some point just to see what I get. I’d suggest if you have a favorite cable in your system try adding another and see if it improves or not. I really liked my AZ Satori double barrel shotgun cables and as I added their interconnects and finally their MC2 digital cable things kept getting better, which is how I ended up where I am. That said, I think it’s perfectly possible to get great sound from mixing n matching as you’ve obviously already discovered. How’s that for a wishy-washy non answer?
Does creating a loom in cables in a system make a significant difference?
I use a mix of different cables for interconnect, speaker and digital cables. I have no complaints. The music sounds great! I seize upon good values for superior cables from Audiogon and Audiomart US. I'm setting up a system in another room and I'm wondering if I should stick with one brand of cable throughout or just keep buying high quality cables regardless of brand. I'd appreciate your thoughts.
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Uh, what? Distortions? I think I know what you mean but I don’t think you worded that appropriately. I currently have a full loom of Acoustic Zen cables just because adding another AZ cable at each spot led to a sonic improvement to me, so I obviously gravitate to their house sound. But, if I hear about another cable from another manufacturer that really piques my interest I won’t hesitate to go outside the loom and give it a try. Despite my current situation of having a full loom of AZ, I wouldn’t hesitate to change and add another manufacturer’s cable if I thought it was better and in my budget, and frankly I think religiously adhering to one brand is just easy and lazy. Example — I just bought a used AZ MC2 digital cable I’m thrilled with, but if I hear about another digital cable from company XYZ that seems to offer even more of what I’m looking for I’ll certainly give it a try. I guess my point is, just keep adding better cables for your tastes/system as you see fit, and I don’t think that in any way necessitates sticking to one brand. Just my take and experience. |
@tantejuut Big +1. Even though I ended up with a near full loom, I am in no way married to it.
@jjss49 Another Big +1.
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