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| Thiel Owners jafant,The Cardas connectors for speakers (spades and bananas) are copper that is plated with Rhodium over silver. The copper wire is not silver-plated. The connectors for interconnects are made from brass and have various platings including silve... | |
| Thiel Owners rosami,I don't have any experience with Naim cables, but you could be right about the Thiels needing different speaker cables to perform their best. I'm still using Straight Wire Encore cables from the 1990's because I know they're a good match fo... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,I didn't think that the Cardas cables had underlying silver wire. Did you see that someplace? | |
| Thiel Owners Congrats to all you 3.7 owners! I'm still hanging in there with my 2.2's, which have become more expressive and "alive" since I started powering them with PS Audio M700 monoblocks. My search for new interconnects has also shown me that the 2.2's c... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,Thanks for the suggestion about Morrow interconnects. I'll definitely look into them. I'm pretty far down the Cardas path at this point, but options are always a good thing. I've also been interested in the Iconoclast cables that are manu... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent,I agree about the need for cable burn-in. The Clear Sky IC's I have were burned in by the dealer before I received them.I would be very pleased to have a cable in my system that was "relaxed," "detailed," and "natural" sounding (as you des... | |
| Thiel Owners pops,Thanks for the additional info on the MIT EVO's! Your description sounds great, though they are somewhat expensive - at least in terms of what I'm used to. Finding the balance between musical and resolving seems to be the holy grail of cable ... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,I've been reading some great comments about the Clear Beyond interconnects, but the price of a pair of 1m ICs is well beyond my budget ($3,750 retail). I've also heard positives about the Clear Cygnus, which uses some of the Clear Beyond's ... | |
| Thiel Owners pops,It's been several decades since I last listened to any MIT cables. It looks like there aren't a lot of inexpensive options, even in the Heritage series. I'm kind of wary of the little electronic boxes that adjust the electrical characteristic... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent,Thanks for the helpful info! The Clear Reflection is more expensive than I planned to spend, but I might have to expand my budget if these are really great cables. I only need one pair of them for now, so that helps things stay halfway aff... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,You asked yesterday about about any cable shoot-outs going on, and I'm still in the middle of some testing to find a balanced 1m interconnect to use between my PS Audio Stellar preamp and M700 amps. I'm using the Stellar gear to power my Th... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,Great news that CS 2.2 upgrades will be part of the early batch of "resurrections"! | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent:Do you think the 2.4 is the stand-out in the 2 series? I'm assuming that you view the 3.7 as even better, but the 3.7 would require a greater outlay of cash on the used market. | |
| Thiel Owners pwhinson:What a perfect quote from Nelson Pass to characterize the essence of high-end audio! | |
| Thiel Owners jafant:Thanks for the warm welcome! Just last month, I became the happy owner of the PS Audio M700 amps and Gain Cell DAC/Preamp, and the Stellar gear have definitely opened up the sound of my system. They have also forced me to wade into the mess... |