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Warm, rich sounding interconnects?

My system is in flux at the moment with a Wadia Intuition 01 as preamp/amp/DAC bookshelf Tyler speakers and (horror of horrors) an iPhone with an Auris bluetooth connection for the current audio source. Since bluetooth at best sounds somewhat thin and tilted up on higher frequencies, it doesn’t play necessarily well with the Wadia which is great sounding overall but also can be on the revealing side.

I know I should get a better source - but even so I’ll always want the option of wireless in various situations. I’ve owned Purist Audio Museaus’s (rev-c’s) in the past, which would be perfect, but sadly sold them on A-gon some time ago. Those are hard to find and the newer Purist cables are brighter sounding.

So in a nutshell I’m looking for interconnects which will deepen and darken the sound for my current setup - and new/used for under $400. Any ideas?
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czarivey
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you purist, harmonic tech, siltech, zen and bunch of other brands for a lot cheaper from China dhgate or alibaba. they look and sound same.
czarivey
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This trend is still there. You can get 10k priced wire for $300, but I only pay $99max per wire pair coz there are plenty wires to choose in this price range perhaps even larger than amongst higher price range so even $300 is kinda too much. Alibaba is also publicly traded so they will continue to get away with all the copied gear they sell with great success.

czarivey
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One very interesting thing I found out about China made counterfeit products that the original products or at least parts from original products had been or being ordered from China by manufacturer(s) aiming for higher profits and lower labor cost. Well as we all know China labor is super cheap close to slave labor. Smart employees take out such parts and create same product pitching it overseas to make their living. To me it makes sense to purchase from there instead of purchasing from 'authorized dealers'. 
czarivey
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@mitch2 

I love boxing, because it's the best educational sport ever made on planet! The key phrase of referee "Protect yourself at all times" is extremely important and useful.

A single punch or quantity delivered to opponent drastically increases one's awareness and improves speed of thinking and tactical flexibility within certain rules.

Aside of political matters or politicians, the quality of aka counterfeit Chinese products -- guess what? --  increases and soon will overwhelm these so-called authentic stuff that is worth no more than few minutes of labor to create pair of hook-up wires + few more pennies for raw materials.

Another educational subject that I really like is math, because any dogmatic or delusional case can be easily revealed by building a simple math equation or matrix of such!

czarivey
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Fairly recently I sold Pioneer SX838 $319.xx and really wonder how to justify labor and raw material cost to build hook-up wire of matching price vs. restoration service and calibration of Pioneer SX838?

I also wonder what is justification of $30k wire vs. Steinway grand?
Washburn ES335 vs. $300 wire

Does any audiophile know how to count??

Note, I would never rise these questions in 70’s, 80’s when everything was fairly reasonable and matching the quality and beauty of design, but perhaps should some day attend these audiofests with mike and recorder to curiously ask manufacturers how THEY justify.

I also noted that trivial mathematical problems are somehow excluded from school programs and other useful things to life also excluded.
Seems like school is the tool to replace common sense with nonsense to generate ’real democratic’ voters!
czarivey
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I'm noman -- so no vote.

When I own some politicians, maybe I will have some votes. I figured they might be cheaper to purchase than some precious high end pieces of audio and definitely seem to be smarter investment.

czarivey
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no i'm self-imperialist

i do not reject democratically elected leaders, but there's no such thing as.

czarivey
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I stopped going to school since 13 by finding excuses day by day attending only quizes and exams fulfilling only bare necessary minimum to pass from grade to grade and I do not regret that. School is mechanism of making population submissive, obedient and deprived from common sense. Glad my sons found place on professional dance stage and pay little to no attention on what's going on in school.
czarivey
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rotarius, my higher education was slightly different from school and supported with my personal desire to learn certain things i wanted and i needed to know. once i've established myself as professional in my sophomore years, i dropped from college too. 
czarivey
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I finally found all possible justifications to the labor, raw materials estimates wires vs. other thingies.

It all merges into the meaning of toy vs. tool or instrument. In the toy department (for children) everything is inflated because of "mama buy me this" market factor (MBMT) is always present so mathematically (what I like most alas from any science behind) it looks as follows:

(Raw materials + Labor) * MBMT.

Note that in wires reaching the price of new car right multiplier always approaches to unity while MBMT approaches to infinity -- no need of knowing any electrical or performance properties as they easily factor out!

The value of MBMT usually contains tons of propaganda and advertisement -- which IS actually LABOR oriented to drain funds of baby boomer's foolish children.

Bypassing all science behind on how good or bad wires sound (do they sound at all?), the most honest value to the product belongs to Mogami and most of pro-audio brands. Mogami Silver series (ones preferred by me) provide better electrical contact than gold according to per-unit resistance/impedance. They run in the range of $25/m pair.

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