Is Stealth Sakra IC is really better than Indra?

Hmmm, well I have a Sakra, as well as the Indra. The Sakra I have had for a couple of months now, about 400 hours break-in time on it! I have had a number of listening sessions with it, the last one at about 250 hours. I plan to have another listening this week, at the 400 hour mark.

Off the hop I would have to agree with Kops, yes it is! Right out of the box it's better. In my experience it has gone through some growing pains in the break-in, and has also had some, shake your head in amazement, incredible moments in those first 250 hours. I am very much looking forward to seeing where it lands, where is settles out so to speak!! At that time I will spend some time swapping it out with the Indra, to do a direct comparision.

At this point I have to say that no matter how the Sakra turns out, and I think it's going to be strongly better than the Indra, I believe the Indra is an excellent excellent value at the used prices on here! I actually prefer buying used cable, this breaking in cable is painful. If you're on the bang for the buck program......you should be very happy with the Indra, I may just end up there myself! I am still open to the possibility the Sakra has potential to blow me away.....but yikes, it's not cheap!

I'll report more with more hours on the cable!

Well the 500 hour thing is good news Kops! I had heard another fellow say that it really comes together around 1000 hours, but if you noticed 500 and above, then I'm close! I can understand your position on the used thing, there are some really good deals right from the dealers these days........I do like to think that anyone who pays this much for cable would take good care of it, but you're right, you never know!

One question I have, and maybe it's a dumb question, nevertheless I'll put it out there for people! When breaking in an interconnect, do you need to have the amps on? If I am breaking in the source ic can I just have my source CD player running without the pre and amps running and having actual music coming out the speakers!! Are you actually getting signal flow if there is no work being done? Throughout this breakin I have had my system playing music at low levels! Thoughts anyone!

Hey, thanks Tom.........I'll shut the system down and save some electricity!! I am considering putting the Sakra on a cable cooker........anyone try that with Stealth?

Quick update on the Sakra Break-in. I was at around the 450 hour mark this week and sat down for a long night of listening. There was quite a jump from the 250 hour mark. I was hearing a much wider sound stage than with the Indra, alot more detail, alot more air, and without a doubt, more layers. I was quite impressed. As good as it was I can't completely let go of the Indra.......I have had some very emotional listening sessions with it.....if the Sakra can do that in the future, it will be a hands down no brainer. I'm actually starting to wonder what another Sakra to replace the Indra from my pre to my amps, would sound like!

Guys.....just for kicks and giggles I bought a pair of Mogami Gold ic's..........$100 for the pair. To make a long story short, they are amazing! I sold the Sakra and Indra! The Mogami Gold got me 95% of the way there at 1% of the cost! Initially I just bought the cable to integrate my home theatre system in with my 2 channel system. One night for fun I swapped the Sakra and Mogami, and never looked back. The money from my Sakra and Indra bought me an MBL6010D!!

Rgs92...........that's a great question!! I actually don't know if I could put my finger on it. I would say there may be a little more flesh with the Sakra cables! I have heard someone describe the Valhalla as having less body than the Indra, but great detail and imaging, that may nail the Mogami Gold! I have actually changed my system for the better since then, especially with the addition of the MBL6010D.........and I would love to do another comparison so as to really nail the subtle difference! I do know another fellow who sold his Tara Zero after trying the Mogami........and he was running an MBL system worth over 100K. In our experience, the difference was just not worth the money. This week I will be comparing Analysis Plus Golden Oval agaist the Mogami, so it will be interesting to see if the results meet my memory. I would love for others to try this! Heck, for the $100 it's worth a try!

Alot of what you are saying is true Inna! I myself have on occassion spent thousands to get that 5%!! In this case I sold my ic's and put $10 000 in my pocket, so I guess I have decided the 5% is not worth 10 grand to me! Right now I am considering spending part of that $10k and getting a Tripoint Troy, which will give me way more than 5%.

Who knows, when I run out of places to reasonably upgrade my system again, I may reach for that 5% and end up with the Stealth in my system........but right now I'm getting more by investing that in other areas, such as a preamp or Troy! As for my friend with the Tara Zero.......he had $30K in a very long run of ic's.......now that's alot of jingle for 5%. I find the Mogami gold gives me a very, you are there, sound, much like the Atmasphere preamp did. (On that point, Ralph Karsden of Atma recommends using Mogami with his gear) Alot of other cables were giving me their flavour.....which isn't all bad of course, and in some cases much prefered. Everyone has that decision to make.