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In Reply to: RE: what a difference a cable or two makes posted by Green Lantern on December 05, 2020 at 21:03:15
After auditioning several brands of speaker wire, my current favourite looks positively anorexic
compared to the garden hoses previously demo'd.
It is also interesting to watch the reactions of visitors as they see the door-sized 20.7s connected
to a speaker cable with a 1.7mm diameter.
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Which cables are those?
They are Crystal Cable Piccolo Diamond. What they lack in bulk is compensated for by using
silver annealed with gold wire wrapped in Kapton.They beat out competitors from Cardas, StraightWire, Audioquest, and WireWorld in my system.
Sweet, pure, and extended highs could not be matched. Honourable mention goes to Cardas Clear
Reflection which had an incredibly pure and smooth midrange but seemed a bit rolled-off for
HF extension.
Edits: 01/05/21
As per Jan 5, 2021 thread:
They are Crystal Cable Piccolo Diamond. What they lack in bulk is compensated for by using
silver annealed with gold wire wrapped in Kapton.
They beat out competitors from Cardas, StraightWire, Audioquest, and WireWorld in my system.
Sweet, pure, and extended highs could not be matched. Honourable mention goes to Cardas Clear
Reflection which had an incredibly pure and smooth midrange but seemed a bit rolled-off for
HF extension.
Nice to see someone trying to obtain full potential from their system by investigating what improvements a half decent cable can bring, instead of just constantly swapping components.
Ironically though, you are just dipping your toes, the Picollo Diamond is their entry- level cable in the gold/silver fusions, with 6 more levels to climb. It's actually a Siltech cable(gold/silver fusions), Edwin van der Kley saw a hole in the market for thin cables, as opposed to the thick Siltech's, and started a sister company, named it Crystal cable(renamed Crystal Connect) and let his wife run it.
You are selling yourself short the way you have it connected, you should have the Crystals in a bi-wire configuration, lose the jumpers and just use the 4 connectors below, too much resistance and a loss of signal quality the way it is now. Better still, dump those chunky metal connectors, fuses + fuse holders as well (but thats a different story).
Yes, Edwin and Gaby do offer many upgrade possibilities within their respective companies.
My dealer has a demo pair of the Reference Diamond - 3 steps up if you include the discontinued
Standard Diamond- but even a smoking deal on a $ 7500 wire was over my budget.My T-IVa are set up for bi-wiring but I'm not sure how the MG 20.7s could be bi-wired and still kept stock for resale purposes.
I have to keep my dream of owning 30.7s alive. LOL
Edits: 01/06/21
MG 20.7s can not be bi-wired and still kept stock for resale purposes.
Andy
Oops, my mistake, I thought the terminals were like the 1.6's, but those are attenuator connectors and not bi-wire jumper connectors, I should have seen that the way the jumpers are connected, old age is creeping up on me............
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