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Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects

Got a pile of interconnects cables today from Cable Company to try, focusing on between my DAC (Weiss) and pre (Mc c2300)—SF Amati Tradition speakers with MC601s. Base cables mid level Wireworld.

Contenders

- Cardas Clear Cygnus

- Cardas Clear Reflection 

- Shunyata Venom 

- Shunyata Venom X

First in was Cygnus. I was immediately floored. Loved everything about it—feeling so engaged with music. Amazingly dynamic and tight bass response. Every song I played was just amazing.

After an hour I was itching to try the Reflection expecting great things. Nope. Dull and woolly. I love warm, but perhaps this was too much of a good thing. After two songs I was back to the Cygnus. 

Sticking with the Cygnus tonight.

Shunyata will be up tomorrow and I’ll report back. 

w123ale
w123ale OP
101 posts
 

@jtcf I was thinking of exactly the same thing of mixing and matching Cardas. Do you have any experience with the Parsec line? Cheaper and warmer. Thinking it could be interesting to consider for a longer speaker cable run I need to make.

willy-t
124 posts
 

Hello

i have about 4 years living with all Cygnus cabeling

and recently put in Clears from a Little Loco to JC2 preamp

sound is incredible and emotionally engaging 

At this level of cable they are all good

 

Good luck Willy -T

mrskeptic
262 posts
 

You probably had the Clear Reflection connected backward and the electrons got confused. 🙄

w123ale OP
101 posts
 

Update: listening to the Shunyata interconnects to DAC and to amps. Well heck, sounding pretty balanced and getting out of the way. Not wow, but just this sounds like music. Hmm, this won’t be easy to sort out. Both cable sets are quite good.

decooney
1,906 posts
 

@w123ale Update: listening to the Shunyata interconnects to DAC and to amps. Well heck, sounding pretty balanced and getting out of the way. Not wow, but just this sounds like music. Hmm, this won’t be easy to sort out. Both cable sets are quite good.

 

That’s what matters the most. If you find a synergy that works for you in your system, trust your ears and ask yourself if you are more engaged in the music.

If you like the Shunyata, there you go. No need to look at Cardas Parsec or others mentioned prior. Cardas Cygnus is a more open and detailed IC. Parsec is a tad more veiled over and more grainy than Cygnus. Once you move up the line to standard Clear, it’s a smoother and different sound yet again. As mentioned before, I will share again - flip-flopping back and forth with Cardas and other cables does not work well, you gotta leave them be and not keep moving and messing with them for a few weeks, then rotate back to Shunyata again, will help to decide. Best of Luck.

 

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