Had a chance to get my hands on a used pair of one of my old favorites from MIT, the AVT 1 RCA Interconnects. Used them in one of my systems many years ago and had fond “visceral “ memories of how great they sounded. They are absolutely phenomenal sounding in every respect…musical, dynamic, dimensional!! Jim2 would be proud of me 🥹
Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find?
I own a very decent audio system and have slowly been moving up over the last several decades weeding out less-natural sounding equipment and focusing on best sound for my money (what I can afford). My current gear is a collect of Quad, Pass, Klyne, VPI, soekris and a fairly large collection of Kimber, audio quest, Furutech, Cardas, Straightwire, DH Labs cables built up over time.
I have come across lots of high-priced gear that isn't faithful to the music. My reference has always been unamplified voice and instruments and attend such concerts regularly though they are hard to find (but still easy if you live near a major city).
It always a pleasure to come across gear that is low priced and exceeds higher priced gear when it comes to faithful reproduction of music holding to the live unamplifed sound standard.
So.....
I have recently purchased some ATAUDIO cables from Aliexpress that have left me stunned due to low price and performance. Recommended by another audiophile who seemed credible and owned good equipment so decided to give them a try.
A $26 1 meter ATAUDIO copper interconnect cables is running neck and neck my Cardas Clear interconnects and beaten my Cardas clear Cygnus interconnect cables when it comes to clarity, lack of edge and sibilance, warm open holographic sound reproduction.
Would someone here with a good resolving audio system give one of the ATAUDIO cables a try? The price is noise for us who have invested in decent (high-end) audio system.
ATAUDIO power cords and Interconnects have proved amazing. About to try their speaker cables. I would not recommend their silver cables. I tried them and while they sound more robust and full than their copper cables the silver cables have the a high frequency edge similar to other silver cables I have heard.
Just looking for couple of regular posters here to give the ATAUDIO cables a try.
Can't resist passing along an audio bargain.
If you don't believe in cables making differences please don't post here and go do something else as you have already found your happiness.
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See, I knew there were 2 of you! The Crap comment was referencing the OP…as for the misplaced tension, affirmation comes to those who are unbiased. Additionally, I did not indicate my reasons or experiences that influenced my outlook on cables, nor did I imply a level of monetary outlay that might be required to achieve an objectively superior result in this most subjective of hobbies. |
@jayctoy Pangea has some decent cables, as does Anti-cables, Signal Cable…so many choices for conventional designs. My personal experience ( from Fulton to present) emphasizes the obvious superiority of certain cable designs over others, but may be subjectively preferred or not, depending on individual systems matching and musical biases. |