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Using older cable in new system? Need advice...

Hi,

I'm in the process of refreshing a system that I originally bought in the mid to late 1980's and need some cabling advice.

I sold my Vandersteen 2C's on Audiogon and will likely replace them with either Quad 21L's or Totem Arro's. I have a SOTA Sapphire (currently being refurbished at SOTA) for analog and just purchased a Music Hall 25.2 CD player for digital. My amp is a PS Audio Elite Plus integrated with 70 watts/channel. I also have a Tandberg tuner.

My 20-year-old speaker cables are Monster Cable Powerline 2, which was "pretty good stuff" back in the day. Should I keep on using it? Is this something that deteriorates over time? Also, in my new, much smaller listening room, the lengths are way, way longer than I need... would I want to have this cabling resized at a dealer?

Thanks for any and all enlightenment you can offer!

Peace!
rebbi

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philjolet
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everyone has an opinion, I feel upgrading your cables is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to upgrade your system. I would buy cables on Agon try them out and sell them if you do not like them. If you use the Cable Co you will end up paying full price for something that could be had on Agon for about 1/2 price, otherwise they are terrific.

Cable has come a long way since the 80s.

I recommend Alpha Core Goertz MI2 Veracity as the best cable in the $200 price range, another good choice is Kimber 8TC which is a good all around cable but the Goertz is lively with better tone IMO. I bet you would find either is much better than the Monster cable.
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Chazro
I have some Tera Pandora S ICs from the late 80s. These were top notch back then costing over $300. They still sound nice with a full tone and nice detail but my $380 Audio Note AN V cables easily are more open, detailed and revealing without some of the colorations the Tera has. If you wanted more of a full sound the Tera might be preferred to the AN V but otherwise the AN V easily betters it. BTW the AN V is the bottom model Audio Note offers for ICs...
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