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Sharing my experience with cables

Almost 40 years ago, a dealer in Montreal loaned me a pair of MIT cables. My scientific background refused the idea that cables would have any impact on electrons propagating at the seed of light.

The impact on the soud was so evident that I bought them. Since, I have tried many cables of all kinds and spent over 20 K on cable for two systems, one in Montreal and the other on the lake.

My criteria for all my components is physical:  if my arms and neck hair are raised by the music, it works for me. The other critical aspect I discovered over the years is distortion, which I think has a lot to do with crossovers. I beleive that crossovers are powerful filters whose job is to kill music.  Electrostatics are clean because they don't use such filters. But i still prefer normal drivers, , 2.5 ways because somehow the roll off frequencies are away from most of the music is. 

My latest speaker are Wilson Sophia 3, Raidho X3 and Q Concept 500 .

The Transparent speaker cables work fine with Wilson and Q Concept. For the Raidho I use  Luna Red for speakers and usb from the Aurender to the Devialet amp.

All of this just to give you context on what I a m about to say.

The cables I foud to have the most impact is the Power cable to the power amps (solid state)!  Here are my recent experiments:

Audioquest Blizzard makes the Raidhos sound dark, as if the riboon tweeter were dead !  

My most expensive cable is a DR Acoustics Red fire ultra ( 5K).  It makes  the Qconcepts too bright.   

Custom made Furutech are  much better with the Q Concepts.

I will try the DR power cable with the Raidhos next week.

They are all way better than the 5$ cords supplied with electronics. 

Finally, I have found litthe effect of cables on Aurender streamers and Dacs. This is aanother subject though.

 

Thank you for any suggestions. This is my first post here, so be indulgent !

 

lucmichaud1

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@lucmichaud1 I have been exchanging my OCC wire Cables to PC Tripe C wire Cable and DUCC wire Cable.

The impression the PC Triple C cable has had through the initial use as a Phono Cable has been enough to trigger curiosity and to learn more about how it can influence the SQ from the system.

The System is nearly completed with a full Cable change. At present there are Cartridge Tag Wires, nano treated Power Cord, RCA Phono Interconnect's and Speaker Cable, that are introduced.

The intention is to have all devices powered with a nano treated PC Triple C Power Cord, as the impression made when using the Power Cord on the available devices has been notable for the perception of improvement, especially on the Digital Source Devices. 

My nano treated PC Triple C Power Cord has been on loan for a period of time to a friend who has been converting to PC Triple C wire, even to the point the impression made, has encouraged them to have found a way to use the wire as an internal wand signal wire in their Tonearm.  This same Person has said the nano treatment is preferred over their owned Cryo Treated PC Triple C wire Power Cord,  the nano Treated Wire that is on loan is said to improve on the resolution.

The detected differences could have initially been due to a variety of factors, but now both have been compared to each other using the same Plug Connectors, the variables that can be contributing are getting less.  

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