Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button?


Many of us have had several sets of interconnects and speaker cables.  I have had many of the brands associated with at one time or another of being SOTA.

The ones that I remember having the most aural and mental impact on my pleasure index were the Wireworld Gold Eclipse.  I am not endorsing the Copper vs. Silver debate or forgetting the Nordost, Kimber and many other brands I have owned, I just remember the Gold Eclipse as being a major listening pleasure. 

And you?

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Showing 2 responses by frazeur1

I have been predominately using DH Labs cabling for almost 20 years now. Silver coated copper cabling for what it is worth. It has just seemed right to my ears in most of the systems that I have had set up over the years-including my current one. I also tend to use the same cabling throughout, preferring not to mix and match. 

Other cables that have seen use off and on have been Mogami, Supra, Linn, Naim, the Linn and Naim more when I had systems from those companies wares. 

I have tried several other cable looms in my current system, all being considerably more expensive with a lot of “buzz-word” technology wrapped around them. I end up coming back to, and preferring the relatively inexpensive, no or little foo DH Labs cabling. 

Most of the cabling that that I have tried against the DH Labs, has been similar or just different, but I cannot honestly say that any of it was “better”. Generally, I find this to be true of many hifi things these days, there just doesn’t seem to be those OMG moments to my ears, at least not very often. Maybe that is a good thing really, and could also be why I just listen to music and not worry over that next thing that supposedly “needs” upgrading. 
@axeis1, interestingly, Audience cabling was one of the groups I listened to/experimented with sometime ago. It was not their current series though. While it is excellent cable, it just didn’t do anything to my ears that my current DH Labs cable was doing, and especially for the cost. Maybe I am just cloth eared, but to be truthful, I am semi agnostic to all this cable stuff these days.

After swapping cabling in and out of my system over the years, trying to listen to the music with “open” ears to what might be different/better/worse, I have somewhat given up caring. The music in the end is what is important, or should be I would think, so I gave up. My time now is spent doing just that, listening to my music.

I am pleased though that others out there find their systems to be much more revealing or whatever other attributes it may bring with cabling from various brands. It would be a dull world if we all liked the same things!