Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good?

Need opinions please. I recently upgraded my cd cable to a GG rev mk2 and am very pleased (understatement!) with the upgrade. I have a 5 meter silver cable from pre to pro that could be upgraded as well. However, it would be less expensive for me to try the Rapture on my CD player than upgrade the 5 meter pre to amp cable with the GG rev mk2. My concern is that the potential improvements with the Rapture might not be fully realized. If I could change the configuration of my set up and was only dealing with 1 meter lengths all around this would not be such a difficult problem to resolve but I can't. What would you do?

Jc,

Where there's a will there's a way.

Get rid of the 5M. It's killing you.

Buy a Sistrum SP-101 ($400.00) or a Sistrum SP-1 ($250.00) and place it next to the amp. The Sistrum stand will beat the living snot out of the stand you have your CDP on.

It looks like you have power on the back wall by the amp. Make sure it is a deadicated line. A 1M will now work for a lot less $$$ than buying a 5M wire.

Glory, I think even Sistrum says that the SP-1 is superior to the SP-101.

Norm,

I did a comparison between the Sp101 and the Sp1..I thought the Sp1 maybe better because of its lower mass and what I thought would be greater reactivity. I can say in my system that the Sp101 sounded better. I used an Audio Research tube amp for this test..weighed in at about 45 lbs. The 101 gave the ARC greater articulation and a slightly more focused stage. Tom