Warm Sounding Cable

The Cable Co. is your friend if you have the time. Talk to Steve about what you’ve got and are trying to do. He’ll hook you up. 5% rental fee for all you audition + shipping. If you buy, that total 5% goes against the cost of what you buy. No shipping charges on your purchase.

If you want to gamble, check out PartsConnexion. Talk to Chris. He has Cardas Legacy cables at great prices (50% off list). I could not resist trying out what was at one time Cardas’ primo IC offered at 50% off (Golden Reference). Older Cardas cable is frequently talked about as "warm" (though not always justified, I think). I think there’s a bump in the lower midrange as opposed to high end being rolled off.  Cardas Golden Presence should be within your budget.  Cardas 300B Microtwin would be another option, though some will stick their noses up at its (supposed) lack of detail, slowness, blah blah blah. Not sure you want to go all the way there but it’s another very much lower cost Cardas option. Parts Connexion shipping was only $14.95 to the US and I got it the next day.

Good luck.

Quick interrupt, does the Cable Co. express an opinion on cable directionality?

To my ears, Cardas.
Happy Listening!

Perhaps Audio Art Cable IC-3SE with DH Labs RCAs, $320 1M pair new. 170 hours of break-in time to fully settle.

Purist Audio.....

i second the Purist Audio

I am a Purist Audio fan and have Neptune Luminist. The least expensive Purist fluid cable is $600 Poseidon, and you won't find it used. Nor will you find older Purist fluid cables. Be careful with Ferox unless it's Dominus, it changes the balance of the cable.

Cable Co. is a great suggestion and has always worked for me.  Some IC's I have found on the warm side are:

Kimber 1011
Kimber 1016
Kubala-Sosna Fascination
MIT Older 330 series

I dropped an Auditorium 23 interconnect into my system and found it to sound very organic and quite lovely,  warm but in a natural way. However looking at your system I’m wondering is the brightness you’re hearing just with the Sony? I see you have an Esoteric disc spinner as well.

Yes, it is just with the Sony.  The Esoteric player is fine.

Hi @inna .  I hope you don't me resurrecting an old thread.  I considering the Poseidon and the Neptune to warm up my system a little.  Have you tried both?

It’s gonna cost you more, but a top choice would be CARDAS GOLDEN  REFERENCE 

And for less, canare 4s11.

I think the AudioQuest Jaguar's are pretty warm. They also had a very nice holographic soundstage to my ears.

I’m currently running-in some Duelund Dual DCA12GA. It cost me only £130 for 4m, and as I can run the bare wire through all 3 sets of binding posts I’m saving masses on connectors, plugs and jumpers.

The tone is exactly what I was looking for. Immediate, rich, lush and with a real presence. Gone is the relentless attack of some tracks, and much of the sibilance - ATC speakers are somewhat of a double-edged sword.

True, I do feel I’ve lost a little of the transparency and dynamics of my TelluriumQ Ultra Black II, but overall I’m enjoying the listening experience a lot more.  Plus, they should continue to break-in and improve - only 20 hours so far.

Highly, highly recommended, and it didn’t break the bank to audition.