Merlin vsm mme owners, Cardas cabling Question.

s, golden cross is a softer sounding cable that is recommended for ss or brighter speakers. the vsm se was designed with se triodes and in certain systems could be a little bright and lean. the golden cross had a nice synergy with the early vsm. later vsms were designed with transformer coupled valve amps, otls and ss so they sound a lot fuller, clearer, smoother and expansive. imho, they have really come into there own. now they work extremely well with golden presence, golden ref and are the best with the new cardas clear.
i used golden ref and now the clear to design all of my speakers.
nice to hear from you. :-)
best, b

Interesting, John Dunlavy would proabably have suggested that all cables basically sound the same, he proabably would have recommended large guage zipcord.

paul, i knew john and he was not a cable guy that is for sure. i said it then and i'll say it now, "each to his own". :-)
how is the master bam and the master rc's?
should be settled by now.
b

The speakers have never sounded better with the MasterBAM and RCs in place - I can't imagine that every SuperBam owner would not think the upgrade well worth it; just one more step in the full realization of the VSM's evolution.

I can provide some input from personal experience. I had the exact same feeling about the Cardas cables as you do. I argued with Bobby P about it. I was a big JPS fan for a long time. I never heard Cardas sound worth a crap on any system I ever had and never understood why anyone liked them. Had them here many times from the Cable Co. to try and always sent them back unimpressed.

When I got my Merlin VSM lead free speakers from Bobby and a Fila integrated along with the Audio Aero Capitole Reference I finally gave in. I tried the latest JPS and the Cardas GR and had to agree with Bobby that there is a synergy there that can not be denied. They beat the pants off the JPS. I was surprised and shocked. That was enough to convince me and I set out to buy used Cardas GR for the entire system. Power cords, interconnects, speaker cables.

I would not have believed it if I had not heard it myself because it went against everything I had experienced in the past. I'm a planar/electrostatic guy but Bobby P has taken some concepts in which he strongly believes and contined to refine and improve them for years.

Everything is relative but Bobby's "prescription systems" are very hard to beat in my view. They have an organic realism that I have never heard before that is natural and life like. Just get some loaner Cardas from the Cable Co. and listen and draw your own conclusions. I did not want to believe this until I heard it myself.