I know this is an old thread and that there have been no posts in years, but I have the opportunity to get a 3 meter pair of Tara Labs RSC Air One Series 2 XLR interconnects. If anyone is still out there, are they any good? Any idea what the retail was on them? Is there anything I should look out for?
New cables are out from Matthew Bond, founder of Tara Labs. Interesting flat design. Wonder if they will inherit the Tara Labs house sound. At $10k for the GSC 36 that puts it between the Muse and the 0.8 -- big gap between those models -- and at $6k the GSC 18 is at the level of the One CX.
After having the iconic 2 interconnect's for a while, one thing that is absolutely apparent is this cable is louder than previous cable's of this type that I've used before, this could be from the much improved clarity, the noise floor is substantially lower.
The iconic 2 interconnect's sound impressive for what they cost, the mid-range is very revealing on drums and vocals sound like they have no business doing this in this price range!
Hi, I just bought the Tara Lab's Iconic 2 interconnect's for the wife for Christmas, this cable is 1/8 to RCA connections, out of the box the bass was lean, vocals decent, treble and mid-range average, however, after a 12 hr playing time these interconnect's have surprisingly very good vocals and the mid-range and bass is impressive for a cable that is $280.00 for 2 meters, I would dare compare this cable to a whole lot more expensive cable's by any one else, the cable is improving with more playing time, the sound has become huge without exaggeration, most State of the art Tara Lab's cable's take 500 hrs of burn in time, based on the improvement's here with these interconnect's , I suspect they will fully bloom at 100 hrs of play time, we will see what happens, bottom line here is a good recommendation for a cable in this price range, very impressive indeed, cheers.
Hi a acdvd, The Air forte would be the thinest, The Tara Lab's The 2 is the better choice between the three, each step gives you more resolution, bass, treble detail, however, if you pull the trigger on the 2, be sure to get the model with the ground station, the noise floor is lower with that set-up.
Hi romney80, yes, There is a significant difference with performance, I would get the 0.8 with ground station interconnect's, very revealing, definitely will let you know your weak link of your system is if out fitted with all of it, the speaker cable's are good as well.
Hi all, I want to change my speaker cables and after reviewing and hearing from few audiophile friends, I am convinced to switch to TARA Labs evolution series. I am trying to decide between air evolution and 0.8 speaker cables. How much of the difference in the quality if anybody have tried both or auditioned.
The head phone cable's from Tara Lab's are statement cable's, recently had the chance to do critical listing with the different models, loved them to say the least, I find it hard to imagine any other cable's would sound better than my preference here.
Hi, Decided to pull the trigger on a krell vintage piece, the krell kav 300I, it's been some years since I owned one of these, this is my second one, thinking of doing the Tara Lab's The One power cord on this, what's your opinion?
Hi cabinlife, Contact Tara Lab's for the size of the spade size, however, I can attest that the spade lugs Tara Lab's provide or sell fits anything I've ever tried them on, in this case, my opinion, spade size is irrevalant.
Hi I'm looking at some Tara labs RSC prime 1000 it has the bsm banana plugs on it. I need spades for a pair of Vandersteen’s 2ce signature. Does anyone know the mm size of the screw off plugs on the bananas?
Just a note to all other crazy cable audiophiles out there...I eventually couldn’t resist trying Anticables by way of a challenge from one of my friends. So long story short is that they allow music to flow effortlessly and with full color and range. The best way to describe them is that my music sounds like the components are hardwired together...immersive and accurate without any negatives. Spot on faithful to tone and expression as well. Quite transformative!
Hi tonykay, I would contact Devon Scott Dicker, The president of Tara Lab's by way of email, express your concerns with him and ask him to reply, I'm sure if he doesn't agree to accommodate you he will surely give you a logical explanation in the time of the corona virus.
I have a short in my "Space and Time w/TFA Return" speaker cables. I realize they are vintage but the tech at Tara Labs refuses to look at them. I sent a vintage power cord to Kimber Kable for repair and they sent me a new cord. Now that's customer service!
Tara Lab's has come out with a new cable called, Evolution Concerto, each channel has 216 conductors, excellent speaker cable's for high frequency extension, full midrange, with deep powerful bass.
Tobor007, lol!, that is some late 80's cable's, high end cable's by anyone sounded like zip cords back then, the industry just started making so called high end cable's.
I have the Tara Lab's cobalt reference power cord on the new krell k 300I with dedicated line and furutech gtx-Rhodium d duplex receptacle, this combination has elavated the performance of the amplifier beyond my expectations 🥂 cheers.
Hi debbarnes58, I have enjoyed reading your well written post, believe it or not, as good as the 0.8 phono cable’s are, you would be very impressed with the zero evolution phono cable’s, and the Grandmaster phono cable’s, these cable's would do the clear audio gold finger 1 a huge justice, it would be like listening to the cart for the first time, to be clear here, you will get all the cart would ever do, cheers.
When we bought a used Clearaudio Revolution with a linear arm, we started getting upgrade-itis. We were told interconnects should cost about 15% of the gear it’s connecting, so we bought $600 phono wires. We had MIT M2 interconnects from our former solid state amp. So, we used them to connect our ARC PH3 to our KW 500. As we continued to get educated, we read that MIT cables are great for solid state, but don’t optimize tube gear because harmonix get messed with in their correction “boxes.” Talking to some experts, we were suggested to try Tara Labs interconnects because they are neutral, musical and just sound “right.” Well, we bought Tara Labs the Two with Ism onboard and were blown away. So when we could, we bought the 0.8 phono wires. Wow, wow, wow! Eventually, we bought another upgraded TT—a new old stock Clearaudio Anniversary Wood, with the T2 linear arm. It came with a straight run of very good clearaudio phono leads, so we didn’t need the 0.8s. I missed them!! Even though the new cart was a gold finger 1, upgraded 3xs the price of our former clearaudio cart, and the arm and TT were huge upgrades, I could hear the difference losing the 0.8 Tara lab phono wires made in my system, just a bit more grain in the clearaudio run. Still sounded lovely, and I was happy for the solid bass improvement, greater detail with the better cart and arm. I checked to see if I could get my arm changed out to take interconnects, but I wasn’t willing to wait a year to get it bavk(how long Clearaudio said their repair/upgrade backlog was.) i highly recommend Tara Labs interconnects! I’m still saving up for Tara Labs speaker wires. On my wish list!
I recently sold the Rega osiris integrated amplifier, and the Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier, the new krell k300I integrated amplifier seem' s to have everything better than the previous amplifiers, 350hrs and still breaking in, the clarity this amplifier has is just uncanny to say the least, non fatigueing!, unlike the Luxman, the osiris was good, but lacks the treble detail, and articulated bass as the Krell, or clarity, this is the order of my findings after living with these unit's, krell k300I, Rega osiris, Luxman L-509X, all have used same everything, digital, cable's , furutech gtx-Rhodium duplex receptacle's, dedicated line's, etc..., cheers.
Hi dave_b, This amplifier has the large and wide sound stage with medium depth, I do know that this model k 300I integrated amplifier is the first ever built by krell to have class A amplifier and pre-amplifier, this also has the Krell XD modification, krell does not stress an invitation to upgrade this amplifier to XD Since this model integrated amplifier is where XD derived from and is already implemented within this model, I believe that is why this has uncanny clarity that I mentioned, I'm assuming this unit gets hot when driven hard because all of it is class A, no worries, it does not get to hot, just A lot warmer than past krell integrated amplifier's that I remember.
One of my biggest questions was what happened to the large scale Caps for the preamplifier stage that are seen in the Vanguard? Not a lot of detail given about new preamp stage for K300i.
Mine has the fans to keep it from overheating. Does the K300i still have the panoramic effect to the soundstage? I love the large and wide soundstage with medium depth...I like to feel closer to the musicians than being to far removed.
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