Moving up from Cardas Clear

I have a Cardas Clear Power Cable powering a Bryston 4BSST2. I originally had it plugged into a Bryston BIT 15 power conditioner but that was overkill. I instead plugged into the wall outlet and after some break in, bass seems deeper and under better control. The sound stage appears to be a bit deeper as well. The 4BSST2 doesn't really need a power cable upgrade but when I go back to the OEM cable, the music seems to lose some weight.

I've been upgrading my entire system from Cardas Clear Light to Clear cables. Listening to the Hi Res music on the flash drive Bryston ships with the BPD-2 digital player, I notice the last bit of sibilance is gone with the switch from Clear Light to Clear.

Since Cardas better cables seem to take a long time to break in, I don't know what the final result will be but even with freah Clears, I prefer them over the Lights.

I intend to replace the Kimber Monocle X speaker cables with Cardas Clear when I get through with the IC's. BTW, I also upgraded my Cardas AES digital cable to Cardas new Clear version and I was surprised at how much improvement it made. The caveat is that I went from a .5 meter cable to a 1 meter cable and I've been told digital cables should be at least 1 meter long.

Mickey,

I've replaced my Cardas Clear Light cables with Clear upstream of the preamp.

I'm now thinking of replacing the long Clear Light IC's from the preamp to the amp with Clears.

My opinion of Clear Light IC's is that they are very close to Clears with a bit less bottom end, a bit less sweetness on the top and perhaps a bit less organic. In other words, I might put it as Clear Lights are 80% as good as Clears at 1/3rd the price.

I suspect in most systems you won't hear the difference.