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In Reply to: RE: RCA Interconnects on a budget. posted by Awe-d-o-file on January 17, 2015 at 14:07:33
Re the anti cables recommendation. Very interesting, what is it exactly that you're finding as the difference? What version do you have? They have a discount on level one and two, but the third level at 200 bucks seems to be doing some serious tongue wagging at the levels below. This is the sort of cable waving that confounds and annoys me. How good is good and how better is better, and will I be able to tell the difference on a modest system like my own?
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I started with Pauls very crude first version that actually was three cables; two positives one for left, one for right and just one ground cable which as ground is common is all that is needed.
I then upgraded to what is now the level one. They were and are excellent. I now have all top of the line silver w/silver Eichmann connectors. I can honestly say the upgrade to top line did help but you'd need very high resolving gear to hear any much less a bigger difference.
My rec is get the $100 ones w/Neutrik RCA's. Get a pair for CDP to pre, a pair for pre to power amp and then replace the shitty cables on the Rega too. This will be kind of a pain and not easy to do. Paul should sell you a pair w/RCA's on one end only for that for a little less. Especially if you order all thee at once. Email him and see. I used that version on my Rabco SL8E tonearm to phono pre and from phono pre to linestage and had no noise.
To me their unshielded design makes them sound much more open and the HF is more real sounding. They image better than any cable I've tried too. They smoked cables costing a lot more that I tried. I was a Kimber dealer amongst others and tried $1K silver cables too.
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Thanks all! This is a very supportive place and your input is much appreciated.
I tried Blue Jeans ICs for the TV sound in the bedroom, and now use them in my main system if they're the ones closest at hand. There are differences between these and Cardas Quadlink, which is what most of my others are, but those differences aren't all one-sided. At $35 for a 3-foot pair, they are essentially free.
The DIY Venhaus silver IC are between my preamp and power amps, and they're staying. Kinda fun to put together, though you have to come up with a way to protect the fragile 22 AWG silver connection to the RCA plugs - just a little wiggling and they'll need re-soldering. (Several layers of heat-shrink tubing covering the plug and first two inches of IC seems to do it.) I also shielded them with stainless steel braided tubing, connected only at the preamp end.
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"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Don't underestimate the ability to appreciate high-performance cables even within a modest system. Three separate audio systems in my collection involving some modest-cost level devices have shown that even modest-cost gear can show audible betterment via high-performance cables. It's not unusual for even high-cost cabling to be very beneficial when used with modest-cost level gear, so there's no real evidence of diminishing returns within reason. If you can clearly determine the subjective value of any sonic benefits involved in a cable upgrade, it may be what you can afford that is the deciding factor. YMMV
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