Do I really want the musicians in my room?


I've spent the last month - as time allows, at least - auditioning some of the popular gold/gold hybrid cables on the market. I noticed something very striking between a couple of the manufacturers: with one set in my system, my system "puts the musicians in my room". With another, the musicians are not in my room, but in the room the recording was made in; that is, I can hear the reverberataions in the studio or the venue. When I listen to the former, I think about how much information is on the source that I'm not hearing; with the latter, I wonder why I've spent ridiculous sums of money to get such resolution. Interestingly, though, my experience has been the "less resolving" "musicians are here" cables tend to have a more lush, seductive sound, while the "higher resolving" cables have a faster, more detailed sound. Which I prefer depends on my mood and the type of music I'm listening to.

Unfortunatly, it seems to me that these conditions are mutually exclusive. You can't have a system with a high degree of resolution and still have that "musicians are in your room" feeling, unless the recording itself allows for that. I don't seem to have many recordings that allow for both, though. Even then, the lushness is missing in the "higher resolving" cables.

Has anyone else struggled with this? If you found a way around this frustration, how did you do it?
aggielaw
Listen to live music only and enjoy the venue if you system is resolved enough.
Let me guess, the in-room sound was with the Gabriel cables?? They are a false god and ultimately, fatiguing. Go for the at the venue sound. Just my opinion...
I don't agree and would be willing to wager that the cables in question by the original poster of this thread are not Gabriel Golds.The Gabriels are nothing close to fatigueing.The Raptures are incredible and even the discontinued Revelations are as involving and resolving as your source material and electronics will allow.The original Gabriel Gold Extreme were very warm and smooth and I could see where someone might find that sound fatigueing.I found them warm,forgiving and easy to listen to.
Maybe the poster will let us know what cables he's heard and is talking about.

"false god" I don't believe any manufacturer has ever claimed their cables to be "God Like"
Someday we'll all know what the Guy upstairs listens to.
Odds are he makes his own cables and electronics and unfortunately there is no distributor on earth at this time.
False because they are at first very impressive but become oppressive over time. YMMV, and Hiernote's obviously does.