Audioqest Wild Wood or Tara Lab Omega Gold?

Labyrinth:

"...the Omega gold speaker cable's do sound natural, audioquest does not make a cable to this caliber of performance..."

It's one thing to strongly prefer another brand and model of cables but I feel your attempt at a definitive statement is not based upon enough listening to higher-end AQ cables in all probability (or you simply prefer Tara) and is therefore not correct. In truth, AQ WEL Signature and 1 other (IMHO) upper line of their cables (at least) do perform at that level of performance, you simply prefer the sound of another brand....as do I, for the record, but I don't bludgeon other brands based upon a listening opinion. Again, for the record, I've got a lot of pairs of AQ and Tara in my past ownership history with very good results and even more from an extended demo point of view...

Hi zephyr24069, I'm sorry you didn't realize I have listened to many audioquest cable's over the last 15 year's, however, your correct, I do prefer taralabs, and essentially, as far as other brand's go, there isn't likely but 4 cable's that I'm aware of that can beat the Omega gold,and definitely know the new Evolution omega and Grandmaster speaker cable's are today's best available,I welcome you to audition these two model's and tell us your opinion, happy listening.

If someone/Tara or Dealer is willing to send me a pair of each (or one at at time) already broken in reasonably without some huge financial outlay to do a very targeted in-home test, I'd love to try them and hear all that you love and respect about them both! I did realize you've heard alot of other brands as many of your responses/threads have the details; I was commenting on the absolute nature of your comments and comparisons.....have a great day!

Hi zephyr24069, I'm not sure what 6+ awg means?, that is what the Taralabs site says that the Omega gold speaker cable's are, and the audioquest wildwood speaker cable's are 9awg, I'm not sure, but I believe that 6+ means 4awg?, can you help explain this?

Beside the brand, material what is used for a cable influences the sound, details, blacklevel, stage depth and width, sharpness of individual focus of instruemnts and voices.

Tara Labs only uses copper, maybe the best copper you can get, but it stays copper.

When you compare cables like AQ Wel Signature with other highend cables made of copper, you will hear the differences in resolution and also in sharpness of individual focus of instruments and voices.

With the best silver you can hear more information, that is why I would never want to use full copper in a highend set. I don't say that I would not use copper. Because it also has other benefits.

At the end it is all about endresults, I am only interested in creating the best sound possible. I was in Munic this year at the Highend Show. I became aware of how much further we are in speed and resolution compared to all the others. Same thing about blacklevel and stage depth and width.

Audio becomes superior effective when you are able to use all different properties a brand/tool owns. You also need to understand what each single part you judge sound for does with the sound and your emotion.