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In Reply to: RE: Did You Use A Cable Burn-In Device? posted by Luminator on September 28, 2015 at 09:20:19
Thank you for the reply. The cables have been burned in on a cable cooker by the dealer/manf. The Naim uses a Chord DIN to RCA. Never had a problem with it before with other gear. Certain(as I can be) it is the 12tc.
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Thank you for being a responsible audiophile, and getting the 12TC Cooked. Hopefully, it was Cooked in the correct direction.
I had the (woefully overrated) Naim Nait 5i integrated amp. My Cooked Kimber 4TC (the cheap Kimber banana doesn't look like much, but it sure is effective!) had no interactive discontinuities or issues with the Nait 5i. The 4TC did its job, which was to pass signal unimpeded, and tell it like it was.
If the 12TC is anything like the 8TC, it will perform better (i.e., be less gummed-up, congested, restricted), if you "puff it up." You will lose length, but you'll gain in sonic accuracy.
If you are not using Naim amplification, I seem to recall my old audio buddies saying that Kimber's TC series worked well with their 1990s amps from Quicksilver and Fi.
Isn't the Harbeth 5HL a bi-wireable speaker? Then if you are going with Kimber, I highly recommend their Bi-Focal XL. It's supposedly an 8TC within a puffed-up 8TC. Yet, it fulfills the goal of being a neutral and honest signal conductor. While I have no meaningful experience with the 5HL, I LOVED the Bi-Focal XL on the Martin-Logan Aerius i, ProAc Response One SC, original Sonus Faber Concertino (yeah, yeah, the cable cost more than the speaker themselves), and various Totems.
If you can't find or afford the Bi-Focal XL, an alternative would be to run the 12TC to the 5HL's woofer, and get a 4TC for the tweeter.
And people can also read my review in these pages of the Kimber 4AG.
I need to change my gear profile. I'm using VTL ST 150, 5.5 sig. II preamp and Shahinian Obelisk 2 speakers.
How do you puff up the cable?
Thanks.
AA's unclestu owns Honolulu's Audio Direction Ltd. In the summer of 1990, I visited his store, then located underground on Waialae, not far from the Palolo McDonald's. Even though I was a penniless college kid, Stu graciously demonstrated for me, the effects of Tonecones. I obvously could not afford CJ, Quicksilver, and Vandersteen. I ended up buying some AQ Sorbothane products, which worked wonders under my Sony Discmen.
The next summer, I returned to ADL, and Stu showed off the Simms Navcom Silencers. Though a little more expensive than the AQ CD Feet, the Navcom Silencers did a better job (less high-frequency roll-off), when used under my Adcom gear.
I didn't return to Honolulu, until the mid-90s. By then, I think ADL had moved to Algaroba, not far from Waiola Shave Ice and the McCully Zippy's. It was there, where I saw Stu (a) install MIT Z-cords on Conrad-Johnson components (which, at the time, had fixed powercords), and (b) puff up Kimber speaker cables. Doing so places the conductors closer to 90-degrees to each other.
I'm not going to step on Stu's toes. You can search Cable Asylum, for his numerous posts on this subject matter. You can also go to the ADL website, and find his tips on puffing up Kimber speaker cables.
I read some of his articles and tried the 'puffing' with the 12tc and am checking it out. I didn't fill the centers with anything. Off the bat it may offer a different sound, possible cleaner.
Thanks again
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