I've got F1, speaker cables and interconnect. Both were a significant upgrade from more expensive Synergistic. Both have the signature Townshend sound, although it feels odd to say something with so little signature has a characteristic sound. What it is, Townshend eliminates a lot of colorations or distortions common to others. I have experience now with their wires as well as Podiums and Pods. They all have in common a clarity of detail and truth of timbre that seems to come from eliminating ringing and other distortions common to many components. The more I live with this stuff the more it seems a lot of what others are doing amounts to trying to tune harmonic distortions in less offensive ways. Where Townshend instead engineers them out of existence.
They do not "sound good". They let you hear how the recording sounds. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Isolda should be similar to F1 only at a lower level. Hopefully some actual owners will chime in. From what I hear they are very similar in terms of what I just described, only at a little lower of a level of detail and transparency. A lot of which is probably due to the wire, as I understand it the F1 wire undergoes a special treatment that greatly improves conductivity and thus greater detail. When I was looking into F1 I came across several who had Isolda and had compared to some pretty spendy wire and said good enough, done looking. Good enough so if you got Isolda it would probably be only F1 you would consider an upgrade. But again, hopefully someone who has Isolda can say how they compare.
They do not "sound good". They let you hear how the recording sounds. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Isolda should be similar to F1 only at a lower level. Hopefully some actual owners will chime in. From what I hear they are very similar in terms of what I just described, only at a little lower of a level of detail and transparency. A lot of which is probably due to the wire, as I understand it the F1 wire undergoes a special treatment that greatly improves conductivity and thus greater detail. When I was looking into F1 I came across several who had Isolda and had compared to some pretty spendy wire and said good enough, done looking. Good enough so if you got Isolda it would probably be only F1 you would consider an upgrade. But again, hopefully someone who has Isolda can say how they compare.