Hello Stringreen - now we are on the same page. The system is / was all PAD 20th Anniversary cables - except the speaker cables which were PAD Proteus Provectus. I wanted to upgrade them to the PAD Dominus and it would have cost me about $8,000 plus mine ......wait a minute I thought. I listened to the Cardas Clear Beyond Speakers cables and they seemed to fit right in and they are not cheap for the 2.5 meter length they were about $9,000 or so. I liked them ...and then wen for the Cardas Rev 1 interconnects and they seemed to open the system up and moved the needsle to a more neutral middle ground...and as note they are not like the older Cardas cables. So that cable replaced the PAD 20th Anniversary and the difference in price is significant. That one went from my Esoteric player to the Esoteric pre-amp and it create a nice sound ......but when I went an borrowed a Rev 1 from The Cable Company and put that interconnect between the Esoteric pre- amp and my Esoteric amp - ( 50 watts clas A - a beast of an amp ) .....the sound id get more grainy with a shrill edging and lost that magic. I was very surprised - so that's why I was asking if you had auditioned the Cardas Rev1 and found that a whole lot of them can push a system to where it so neutral / so revealing - like a Nordost ( and not a criticism ) where it does loose than feeling.
