@antigrunge2 great idea, taking it one step better - deleted my former posts targeted at one individual in response to nonsense. I have nothing to prove about cables, testing, or nice timbre or tone that Im listening to right now. After 45 years of designing/building speakers, I’ll say good wiring and cables can truly help a worthy system. My own driven cable journey restarted many times and ended with the best from George Cardas. All of the timbre and tone anyone could ask for. Best of luck to all on the journey!
Speaker cables with good timbre
As the title says, i would like to hear recommendations on a pair of speaker cables, copper, that have a very good midrange, imaging and truth of timbre or faithful reproduction of instrument sound. As i get older i started to realize i value those characteristics the most when i listen to recorded music. Thank you in advance.
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There are some many good cables to select from, and I recomend that you a select a few and try them your system with your music in your listening environment to see if its characteristics meet your needs and expectations. I would not buy any without trying them in my system. I have Kimber Kables and interconnects in my system and think that the mid range, imaging, soundstage is great. Although I have all types of music in my collection, my listening prefernce most of the time is jazz. Have fun and enjoy your system. |
Hi audiogabby...thanks for your question, A reminder we are all on differing phases and stages of our hobby-pastime-passions. Having worked intimately with a small cable manufacturer, I look for similar tastes in presentation to mine. I suspect George Cardas and I would have a grand time in a listening session. Additionally, tonality - timbre...sounds as YOU know them, is always primary to my goals as well, audiogabby. My limited budget solution was buying a run of used Cardas Clear Sky X4 cables and retrofitting one end to bi-wired at the loudspeakers by Cardas. I also upgraded the 12 ends to forged spade connectors. Time has taught me the connectors can be AS or MORE important than the wire. Clear Sky | Cardas Audio (scroll to X4 Speaker) The X4 is a biwire design, however, the Cardas Tech cautioned biwiring the ends may not be appropriate for full range applications, particularly the deep bass. My situation was okay as I cut off the 80hZ at my pro Focusrite DAC, sending deep bass only to my RymiK L12 subwoofer. Above 80hZ, using SPDIF from the Focusrite, that signal is sent to my NEW Geshelli J2 DAC, running the most current AK4499 dac chip along with the terrific Sparkos 2590 op amps. Never has $555 been spent more wisely in my long hi fi journey. Wishing all our USA members a warm "filling" Happy Thanksgiving week! More Peace Pin (caps for old eyes) |
imo, probably the best value in the lineup for the cost. Less grainy sounding than Parsec, or in my system at least. If you jump up to Cygnus quad wire it gets to be even more detailed. Clear Reflection has its own old/new design blended from Cardas with a tad more weight and richness I like. Standard Clear is exactly that. Some people who've never tried any of them love to jump in and report expensive cables don't make a difference. Cardas does. .Good, better, bad, or just different - in a transparent system there is truly a different result with each of these cables. Congrats on the Clear Sky X4. |
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