cable doubter no more

A case can be made that if each of us could keep swapping out cables in our high end systems and repeat this process until we found the optimum sound from our gear, then cables could transform the performance in many of our setups. The problem is it's cost prohibitive. Even if you could keep borrowing through the Cable Company and had the time to keep the cables long enough for them to fully settle in, the cost of many cables is too high to begin with. You can buy used and still pay too much in some cases. So, due diligence with the value to performance cable designers is the only option for many audiophiles. Many have trials. Wouldn't it be fun to have 5 sets of IC's and SC's from different great cable makers and be given six months to try them to hear which ones would make your system sing? ;then be able to buy the best of the lot for your system at an affordable price? That would be the ultimate. I feel, we never truly know the many ways our gear and speakers can sound given the many cables available to connect it all together.

I think that Analysis Plus is one of the better values in cables and ICs. I'm using Solo Crystal Ovals with great pleasure. I also plan to buy a few of their power cords, which stood up well at RMAF when compared to some hyper-expensive PCs.

Dave

ok, "you are wrong" was not intended as an attack, as much as a seeing the light kind of thing with cables

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Another saved.

I see the light too! However, my philosophy is somewhat different: any piece/group of equipment that improves by 20% with change of wires (no filters - some cables are actually filters which would be different) is either badly designed or something is already incompatible/broken in my book. So for sure a cable can make such a huge 20% difference but this simple fact points to another problem somewhere else. (remember an IC or cable is just wires).

So in my religion audio equipment should work well with any appropriate interconnects and cables and if it doesn't then I get worried about the short comings of the components or their fundamental compatibility with eachother.

Wiring is a tweak like tone controls and power cords.

To my ears, they can and often do change the sound, but in of themselves won't make a bad system sound good and most decent wires probably will not make a good system sound really bad either.

Like so many other things in audio, its a matter of personal taste and overall system synergy. Wires can be an effective and relatively cost effective way to tweak a system.

I wouldn't go any further in bestowing value on wires than that.

What version of Blackovals are you referring to - the 9 or 12; and are you running a single pair or bi-wired pair?
Additionally, in terms of your perceived "+20 percent improvement," do you find that one of the cables, IC or speaker cable, provides greater sonic improvements over the other, or is it clearly the combination of the two cables?

Thank you.