Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit

Abex:

Have you considered changing the RCA's on your transport/CD player?

I have done this on my vintage amps as the stock female RCA's do not work @ all with the 47 Labs RCA's. The female RCA's on my old Musical Fidelity amp did not work well either come to think of it.

I however used inexpensive female RCA's which look to be the same as the ones @ Triode Electronics (they come with supplied with Teflon washers).

I have not wanted to screw with my vintage CDP(Phillips CD-80) as the player is 12yrs. old and I was not concidering messing with it.Afraid I might mess it up and it's built like a Tank which I use for a transport.
I am now considering changing the Binding Post to my Amp and and will probably have my speaker's reworked using Cryo Treated OTA,New Outboard Crossover's and New Binding Post.

Any suggestions?

Abex:

If the RCA's are directly mounted to a board it can be difficult changing them out, but if they are connected with wire's there is not much to mess up.

Anyway, if you ever get around to it the only other thing to check is if the RCA's use the chassis as a ground (otherwise they will have a non conductive barrier between them and the chassis/case, usually plastic washers on both sides -w- modern gear).

I recieved my Cryo Treated OTA cable to try as IC's and will be having it installed in my new speaker's if testing goes well for the cryo'd IC's.

I also have tried the Eichmann Plugs with it and I would say unless you are forced to use them don't!Stay with the Plugs that are supplied.

My initial impression of the Cro'd IC I believe can be said to improve in three area's.They are Bass,dynamics and vocals.There are also things I did not hear in recordings before.The thing which changed also was the forward to back plane in the soundstage.Deeper and not as forward as before,but still clear with no veiling.

I will mention something else that might be relevent.I recieved 2 duplicate digital cables ,one cryo'd the other not.They have some impact on what I am hearing.Before I was trying Canare LV77S Digital to try with poor results.They veiled the vocals alot.I still need to switch back the Canare to see what happens.That might be more accurate from what I had been listening to up till recently.Infact one thing I did do was replae the amp-pre connection using the canare because the plastic plugs kept losing theirconnection.I did not like the sound so I inserted the Eichmann plugged OTA (not cryo'd) into that connection which cleared the veiling of the Canare cable I was having . Eichmanns are not better than using the straight wire when using it between my amp-Preamp(Passive).What I noticed when switching it out was that bass was aittle less defined than before.

These are just initial impressions which were done last weekend and have not had a chance to really have them settle in yet.The last test shall be when I get my speaker's which will have OTA cable running thru them.The speaker's will be the most advanced set of NEAR M50's which are no longer in production,but are still used by Manfs. that I have talked with as a reference.I imagine they shall not be broken in for 1-2 mos. after recieveing them.

Hope that is clear enough to understand

Till then regards and happy listening!

Is anyone using the new 4719 speaker cable? How does it compare to OTA?

- Ken