FWIW, I tried both Xangsane's SP-9003 RCA silver interconnect and P-6008Ag power cord out of curiosity. Both were ok at best, somewhat lacking in their ability to reveal fine nuances in my two systems. The RCA connector quality is flimsy compared to the the Furutech, Cardas, & ETI connectors on my other interconnects. After replacing the cheap connectors of the power cable with Parts Connexion's house brand plugs, it plays nice with an REL sub. It wasn't a great partner for anything else. The interconnect sounded no better than a similarly priced interconnect from Signal Cable. Not bad, not fantastic either. My DIY silver wire with top of the line Vampire RCAs sounds more refined than the SP-9003 in my systems. Eventually, I'll try replacing those RCA plugs with better quality ones. I don't doubt those that say the Xangsane's sounded fine in their system, one's audiophile's nirvana is another's purgatory. FWIW, I tried these with quite a mix of different components. Tidal Piano Cera or KEF R& Meta speakers, Luxman C-700u, Modwright LS 36.5, PS Audio BHK, & DeHavilland UltraVerve preamps. Amps were PS Audio BHK250 and M1200s, ModWright KWA99s, Luxman M-700u, and Decware Zen Torii amps. Auralic G1.1 & 2.2 streamers or Luxman D-08u SACD.
Xangsane SP-9001AG silver interconnect
So, encouraged by friends I've bought some bulk Xangsane SP-9001AG silver cable.
The cables has two squarish/flat solid core silver conductors (purity supposed to be 4N), one silver plated copper drain wire, teflon, cotton, copper foil, and finally silver plated copper mesh.
Jacket says OCC.
Well, it's been playing in my system since a couple of days, burn-in is far from being over, but I can already tell this is a very very good cable, with great tonality, fantastic transparency, dynamics, taut and strong bass... this is the best cable I've heardin my system (by hundreds of miles), and according to some friends you need to go very, very high in price to find a better silver cable.
I don't mean to highjack this thread but if you have not looked at this other thread on Audiogon, perhaps you might want to (made in the USA, 30 day money back guarantee, sounds very good, at a very reasonable price, but more expensive then ordering from China etc.) https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/veritas-cables-a-new-brand-that-i-found
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I'm not making any criticism of Veritas cables as I haven't heard them, but I will say that these Xangsane, their top interconnect model, are $145.00 plus tax whereas the Veritas are $349.00 as an introductory price and are not their top model. In addition to that, I thought that their description was very circumspect. They don't specify metal used for wire or RCA's (they say they use what's best for each model), and then say that they don't want to confuse the potential buyer with too many details, which sounds ridiculous to me. Xangsane says what they use as well as showing a detailed cutaway of the internals. The wire is sillver and the RCA's are gold plated copper. |
