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Cords...

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Posted by bryan on April 29, 1999 at 10:00:27

In Reply to: What are your old cords? (nt) posted by Jack G on April 29, 1999 at 07:50:54:

My old cords are TG Audio Labs HSR-I and HSR-A. Both these cords work great on probably most ss gear. The HSR-A is a new release that was supposed to be good on tubes. I had a VAC 80/80 in house and first hooked it up with the HSR-A and let it settle for a while and thought it sounded off pace and sluggish. Off came the HSR-A and on went the stock cord and sure enough there was a instant very large improvement. I only have one HSR-A cord left but have mono block tubes so I can't even try it out, not that I would expect much anyway.

The M60 stock cords are the thinnest, cheesiest cords I've seen and I know I can do better.

I spoke with a super friendly fellow M60 owner last night and hes going to send me two Tiffany cords to try out. I'll be waiting by the curb for those.

I also heard that the Synergistic Master Coupler cords work well on tubes. But you say not. MMmmmMMMMmmm.

I believe that cords meant for tubes or ss can really be classified like that but there is no guarantee that they will work on 100% of equipment. The trick is finding out what cords work on your specific equipment. For example, I know the HSR-I works on SimAudio Celeste 4070SE's all across the country in different people's systems. The two just work well together. Sure, I could make an educated list and bring cords in until I get the right ones but I figured maybe someone alread knows what works with the M60s. Synergistic, Cardas, JPS, yada ... yada. I'd go broke and probably get hit by the UPS truck doing this. I also realize that system synergy and ones ac environment factor in but I don't think they do as much as the cord <<--->> amp synergy itself. This interface is one of the most important in the system, IMHO, and its a real blast playing around with cords. I've had the pleasure of introducing this to other less informed audiophiles and its always a thrill watching their reactions when a drastic cord change is made. Its' always the same thing. "Holy Sh*t!".

Once you get a handle on this it becomes a real system tuning thing just like interconnects. Its not just the challenge of getting good well matched cords, its getting several of them and tuning with them. You gotta love it.

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