Cable Asylum

Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

A mystery, but a direction

Posted by oofer on January 12, 2005 at 19:50:01:
Personally I landed on VH Audio Cryo Pulsars with Eichmann plugs as the best value for my system. I can endorse Chris VH's engineering and customer service as being first rate. FOR MY SYSTEM (!!!) these are just wonderful wires. I had CArdas, DH Labs, Blue Jean cables, LAT--a bunch more. VH Audio really did the trick.
Another way to go is Element Cable's Twisted pair interconnects which work off a lauded design by Jon Risch. I haven't tried this design, but more people swear by them than swear at them. This is a good sign.
I would recommend that you stick with one manufacturer for you interconnects. You begin to hear the differences otherwise. Every system has its own voice.Wires do help tune that voice and open or close the window it speaks out of.
As to Power cables, I use and recommend Chris VH's Flavor 4, especially for your amp. I have Moon Audio's Green hooked to my CDP and Tuner with very good results. My Preamp has a DH Labs power cable until I get another Flavor 4. The DH works quite well, however.
Speaker wires--I use Mapleshade double helix now after trying a slough of others. I like them, but again, your system will like or not like something that works on my system almost by definition.