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Virtual Dynamics -- what has it beaten?

There's a lot of rave reviews of VD cables in this forum and elsewhere, but it's hard to put it in perspective unless you compare them to other cables. Does anybody have a side by side test of VD cables vs. Acoustic Zen, Stealth, Nordost, Ensemble, etc.? I tried the Audition interconnect, power and speaker cables myself and just didn't care for them, so I'm curious how they stack up against the competition.
erzielin
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
In performance vs. cost? Everything, IMHO
cosmic_void
142 posts
 
leme,
Thankyou for your comment. The problem isn't one solved by swapping the + and -. In a biwire setup you will have phase relationships with the mid/highs and the bass. If using two different cables on the same speaker of two different lengths you will get phase errors according to Rick. As it sits now with the Auditions on the mid/high and the HT Pro-11's on the bass things sound pretty damn good. This is with the Audition cables on everything else as well. 3 PC's, 2 IC's. I will have more to say once the Audition biwire speaker cables come.

Slipknot1 - the performance vs. the cost on the Audition package is excellent in my opinion. I'd like to hear what the Nite cables sound like but alas I haven't won the lottery yet. =;-)

Another thing: My preamp has absolute phase inversion which inverts the phase angle 180°. This has the effect on some material of extending the soundstage way back. This can be done from a switch on my remote. Interesting but I don't use it too often.
gravity_feda7b0
2 posts
 
for me it has beaten (speaker cable wise) (i now have the reference cable.

analysis plus 9's. QED's silver 12, Cambreidge flat solid core, power snake,a bunch of MIT, alumiloy and a few others.

Not in all aspects mind you, all of the cables had their own sound. But when doing the qualities vs cost thing, the references have won big time in my system.

cheers
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
Cosmic_void,

I'm with you. I would love to get into the Nite package as well, but alas, my spouse would freak over "wire" costs.

The last batch of VD Power 3's that came into the house caused a: "you spent how much on extension cords?" Compared what i could have spent on a PC that comes close to what Rick's products do for my system, she has no idea ;)
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Hey guys, while my system has been all VD Audition for the last six months, I did recently change my digital cable to a Nite. That's the only place I'll probably be able to afford to upgrade for awhile. The area that the VDs have been much better in my system than any other cable is transparency and the ability to throw a huge, focused soundstage. I feel the Nite improves greatly in all these areas over the Audition digital.
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