Transparent Bi-Cable

Hi I"ve used Golden Cross and Golden reference before. Then went to Transparent Ref w/XL-major improvement in the areas you're asking about. Currently using Purist Audio Designs Dominus Ferrox (sold a bit ago) and now Purist Proteus Provectus Praesto...which is the best I've had so far.

I can't stress speaker placement and room tuning enough. I just left a friends house on saturday, he had wilson watt puppy 7s, all Cardas Golden Reference cabling...full set of ASC tube traps and a Rives Audio PARC. Killer killer good bass deep, tight, powerful with clarity...

I wish I could say the Transparent cabling will be perfect, I think it will help, and help a lot. But so would the better Cardas cabling, Purist and several others...Transparent has a try before you buy program right now. Might be worth checking it out...

Since Ultra wasn't available I auditioned Music Wave Plus MM2 and frankly the only thing that I liked about it was a deep, holographic soundstage. Everything else is pretty poor - bass and highs are rolled off (up to everything sounding weird with bass trailing somewhere far beyond the drums) and there is only one tonal colour - grey. Plus the level of speed and detail is really poor. Unless Ultra is lightyears above in terms of everything I mentioned these are not the cables for me.

Ultra is much better but the Super isn't that bad. How many hours where on the cables? Did you let them settle in for a few days as well? Bass seems to be the strong point for Transparent ( at least to my ears ) so I am surprised the Supers sounded rolled off and disjointed in that area for you.

It was Plus not Super unfortunately. And yes, I was suprised myself how poor the bass was. It was a broken in demo.

oh.. my bad... sorry about that. Yea, I think Super is where Transparent starts to shine, Ultra is kind of the sweet point, or at least as far as I was willing to go!