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Here's a fun cable question...............

Lets say for fantasy sake, someone dropped $30,000 in your lap, told you you could use it to construct the system of your dreams. The only condition was that all your cables had to be purchased from Radio Shack, except for one. The fantasy man would also pay for this cable, so money would be no object.You could choose 1 cable from any manufacturer of any type.It could be a PC, interconnect, speaker cable , digital cable, whatever. What cable would you choose?
I would have given a different answer several years ago.
But mine would be a PC. Not sure which one though, as Im still auditioning.
darrylhifi

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john_l
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Set of valhalla long i/c's for pre to amp. (free from the cable guy)
Used Tenor monblocks (11K)
Used Talon Khorus X's (7K) (18K
Used SCD-1 w/full audiomod's (4K) (22K)
Used BAT vk-30SE w/phono (3k) (25K)
Nottingham space deck turntable with space arm and dynavector XX cart (2k) (27k)
Used Macintosh MR-78 tuner (1K) (28K)
New Alesis ML96 hard disk rcdr(1K) (29K)
Racks, cones etc (1K) (30K)

This system reflects the fact that I like to have multiple sources. I almost chose to build it around magnepan 3.2's and wolcotts, but I tend to prefer dynamic speakers for their smaller size and strong dynamics.

I chose to go with an active verses a passive Placette preamp. This may be a mistake, but I chose this route because it allows me to have good phono stage without interconnects between phono stage and preamp. Additionally I feel that a cheap cable tends to drain dynamics. I am betting the bat preamp will add some drive to the system.

The last alternative would have been to build a system around an ayre amp and some eidolons like I have now. Maybe. Guess I just want to try something different as usual.
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