The original Gabriel Gold Revelation was/is a very focused and revealing cable that does wonders with harmonics,tonality,textures while providing fast accurate bass.
A few members have mentioned that as great as the cable is it did not have the widest of stages.
On the other hand most people state that the cable has great soundstaging.
This may do to the actual speakers being used by members.
I use Logans so the stage was never an issue for me.
Some boxed speakers have a tendency to not image as well as others and benefit from a colored or accentuated sounding cable.
Copper cables in particular have a tendency to bloom(even when you don't want them to)
It is just the nature of copper.
This is where some trade offs may come in.
Do I give up hearing all of this information and music just to hear a bigger more congested sound.
I think the answer is definately NO.
I have listened to the MK 2 and the designer has improved upon a cable that most thought would be impossible to better.
The MK 2 releases an abundance of information in such an effortless and uncongested manner that the music just
absorbs you.
I actually hear more information from this cable and I believe the reason member glory finds the MK 2 to have great staging and depth is due to the cables capability to replicate the natural decay of instruments and voices within the recording even better than the original.
Hearing more things can shift your focus.
The mind is a funny thing when listening to music.
Ever listen to a system that you thought had great bass and then throw a sub in for kicks?
Then you remove the sub after a few songs and it's like where's the bass.
The same thing happens when you are exposed to more information from your recording.
Your mind has gotten use to certain passages within a song for example a Dimeola solo
Then when listening to the same passage with more info the guitar all of a sudden is not the only thing you hear.
It's like where did that come from?
I never heard that in the background before?
Upon listening to some Di Meola tracks that I am very familiar I noticed hearing more and more into the recording with the MK 2. and that is exactly what I experienced.(MORE MUSIC !)
When you are use to listening to your favorite recordings and all of a sudden things pop out that were never there before it is quite a pleasant surprise.
Upon further listenining I also realized that not only was I hearing more info with the MK 2 but it was more detailed too.
It just comes across so effortlessly that the music wraps around you without ever sounding analytical
The MK 2 does have some of the Gabriel Gold Rapture traits at half the price and these traits I find are far better than any cable I've heard except for the Rapture.
The Rapture is better no doubt and is probably one of if not the best cable offerred by the industry today.
The Revelation MK 2 is the one to beat at it's price.
I'd love to hear it take on the Tesla
In my opinion it would just be one more Goliath taken down by David
As an audio guy and not an olympian I still say "go for the gold"!
