HiDiamond Speaker Cables

Stevepo, I have HD 7 coming and will be in my system in the next week or so. I will be able to compare them to my MIT M1 and my Synergistic Research Galileo Cells. The Synergistic beat the MIT by a large margin. If the HD7 beats out the Synergistic by a large margin that will be impressive. I do not expect that. I am hoping for a small improvement, if at all. AS the HD7 is less money even if it equals that is an improvement of sorts. Though the Galileo Cells are not speaker wire in themselves so it is not an apple to apple comparison.

I will post my initial impressions ASAP.

Hifial,
I have done some experimenting with this. I have the HD H8 speaker cables. I tried to take the SR speaker cells out but they went back in fast. On the other hand, I took the SR interconnect cells out and there was an improvement in the sound. I run cables in series.

I would love to try these. Not in the budget at the moment, and I'm really happy with the Zu Ibis currently in the system. I just have trouble imagining things sounding better than it does now, I am really incredibly happy with the sound. But the changes I experienced with the HD ICs and Digital were so incredibly profound it makes me wonder.

The two things "missing" are a tad of detail and a bit of bass tightness.

I realized the bass thing when swapping in a friend's DAC recently, the bass went a bit lower and tightened up a bit, but at the expense of organic-ness elsewhere (so I wouldn't trade DACs out as overall I liked mine a lot better). So I don't think speaker cables will help with that piece. Maybe with the detail/resolution though.

@Joncourage, there is a used pair of HD7's on the Gon from Wig. maybe try those...

Hifial: Did you get your HD7's yet? Curious on your thoughts.

Bacardi/Sabai: I would love to know your description of the the HD8's sound. For me, I found the power cables gave a unique feel of musical emotion to the recordings that I was never aware was even present. I'm wondering if the SC's would further amplify that. I really wish they offered some kind of money back guarantee, at least of their higher priced items. Would make life a lot easier.