Thiel Owners

Prof - it would be helpful to me to know what interconnect and speaker cable you are using in your system, as well as the other components as well as your comments about strengths and weaknesses. I am calibrating my experience and understandings from a perspective of long absence from the arena. Your perspective, especially on cable, would inform my thinking.

prof,

Have to agree with you.

George

George - I am especially interested in learning your methods of comparison or evaluation.
(This inquiry is an honest one)

Hi Tom

I’ve been able to use a fairly wide variety of cables in my system off and on (Nordost, Audioquest, others...often loaned or given by audiophile friends/acquaintances). But that’s not because I’m craving high end cables, just because if I need one I sometimes don’t have to buy them. (I’ve often given them back if I went on to buy my own).

You won’t find me too helpful as I am not convinced about the case for expensive/audiophile cables.  (Especially AC cables.   Doing some blind testing of AC cables cured me of any desire for those long ago).

Currently I’m using a mishmash of old Kimber PBJ interconnects that I bought long ago, I think there is an audioquest set in there, and some nordost for one connection (will probably replace that). I may replace all those with interconnects from bluejeans cable at some point. Probably no need, but some of the cables are pretty old and the bluejeans cable specs may suit my CJ preamp a bit better.


My speaker cables are currently Belden 5T00UP 10awg, from bluejeans cable:

https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm

I had to do a 40 foot run or so for the speaker cables and went biggest awg just to ensure no audible transmission loss.

I’ve heard speakers I own on this set up, and at my friend’s place who has borrowed or purchased speakers from me. He sometimes has up to 50 or 60 thousand dollars of cabling (Nordost, Crystal cable, others) for his system and the speakers sounded at least as good at my place.
FWIW. Probably not useful to you, but there you go. Cheers!

Prof - your opinion is quite useful to me. I'm casting a wider net than my personal, usually quite old, experience. I presently have bought a long run of unterminated ProCo cable 12 x 4 which resembles your links. Bluejeans' welder sounds wonderful. Terminations are serious business. I have not tried AC cables; although my queue has some shielded hospital cables to compare with "normals". I can imagine EMF interference issues. I have an EMF meter and was amazed by the levels of EMF around my gear. I installed 2 new outlets and simplified routing which significantly reduced those levels. I think I heard a more relaxed musical presentation, but I had no assistant and no way to A/B, so the result is merely a move in what seems to be a good direction.

Thank you. Tom