So YOU can't hear a difference in cables


I do.

I have a set of Van Den Hul the Seconds They get rid of the digtal glare and edge. They are non fatiguing to listen to.
They sound full and lush but give up some detail and soundstage. I can listen to them indefinitely.

My Au24's are more holographic, have better soundstage, detail in spades, but there is that digital edge and glare.

My silver interconnects sound good but tizzy on the top end. They are out.

Day in and day out give me the Van Den Hul the Seconds, no fatigue, but oh I want the detail and soundstage of the AU24's.

If you suffer from that digital glare or edge get the vandys.

I find that the louder the music the more that the cables matter. I find that cables "tune the sound".

Anyone have a suggestion for an interconnect that fits my bill at a reasonable price?
zilla

Showing 5 responses by wellfed

Are you sure you hear a difference? Or do you think you hear a difference because you want to hear a difference? ;-)
Sogood51,

I have been waiting to hear some user feedback on this design. It got poo-pahed pretty badly when I sought comment at the Cable Asylum. Of course, nobody had heard it at that point, but that didn't matter since apparently the design alone was worthy of the slight in their minds.
Well, it looks like we have found new and useful "adjectives" to describe our speaker cables. My XLO Signature Shotguns sound like Rosemary Clooney, the brassy, yet soft, younger Rosemary Clooney. Beats the heck out of yin and yang as adjectives IME.
Gunbei, I like where your cables ended up. What would you have done with them had they stayed at Rosie?
Gunbei writes

...I hope you're talking about the YOUNG Rosemarie Clooney! The stock tubes in my Blue Circle preamp reminded me of a young Phyllis Diller.

Oh I was VERY careful to liken them to the young Rosemary Clooney. They are "hot" cables after all.