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Re: Mapleshade Clearview Golden Helix Cable [Question]

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Greg,

I agree, the Acoustic Zen products are excellent. I had thier entire line of products in my system for several months, and was extremely happy with them. I replaced them with the cheaper Mapleshade stuff only to help finance a preamp upgrade; but the MS turned out to be better than I had expected. I ended up keeping the MS speaker wire, but went on another upgrade binge, and bought a few pairs of Tara The 2 that I found on Audiogon at an excellent price. I also bought several of the Blue Circle power cords.

In answer to your question, I had the Tsunamis on the CDP and preamp, and used the Krakatoa on the power amp. The Krakatoa has two copper and silver conductors that are braided in a helix, while the Tsunamis use a single 11 guage "zero crystal" copper conductor. If I remember correctly, I think the terminations were the same on both.

In my system, the Krakatoa improved the the sound of every component I used it with, but was only slightly better than the Tsunami when used on source components. When used on the amp, the Krakatoa was a significant improvement over the Tsunami, especially in the low bass.

If you've been thinking about trying these, call Robert Lee at AZ. Ask him to send you one of each to try. He won't bill you for them, unless you decide to keep them.


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