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Anticables

Does anyone have any experience with Anticables products? I spent over $600 on a pair of honestly cheap-looking ICs from them and after 400 or so hours burning them in I'm hard-pressed to tell the difference between them and an old set of no name ICs built from pro cable stock and heavy metal RCA connectors.

For all I know they are made out of regular bulk copper spools in a plastic sheath and wrapped in a Slinky.
madavid0
ptss
1,964 posts
 
I agree. Kinda like Spam. That cheap meat product that's a close relative of dog food.
madavid0 OP
214 posts
 
Okay guys, OP here with an update.

I ended up sending the 6.2s back, which AntiCables honored quickly and without fuss. I had an 845 SET amp coming in from China as I suspected my Emotiva was really letting me down (which, as it turned out, was the case) but my 30 days was up so I had to send them back. Also, these Chane A1.4s are really, really unresolving and seriously lack force/drive. I guess what that boils down to was that my system isn't, and still isn't, really capable of showing the difference between interconnects.

My headphone setup is much more resolving, but the trouble there was that I was feeding a balanced amp (Mjolnir 2) from a balanced DAC (Gustard X20) using single-ended cables, which may have muddled the signal too much to tell a difference between interconnects. Certainly, using my Audio Sensibility XLRs there was a noticable improvement -- which, as I just suggested, might be more due to the balanced topology of my DAC and headphone amp.

BTW, this is the Chinese amp I just bought:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Music-Angel-XDSE-HiFi-845-Vacuum-Tube-Amp-Class-A-Stereo-Integrated-Amplifie...~

The Chanes:
https://www.chanemusiccinema.com/A1.4

The DAC:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GUSTARD-DAC-X20-ES9018-XMOS-Optical-Coaxial-AES-EBU-DAC-384KHz-DSD-DOP-Decod...
wolf_garcia
6,708 posts
 
Solid core seems to make sense and a friend of mine loves his anti cables, but they seem fragile. I use mostly AQ solid core in my rig as it seems to work...balanced and unbalanced ICs and Type 8 speaker. 
nycjlee
286 posts
 
+1 Audio sensibility, they use OCC cables. They have their own cables manufactured. I’m using their balanced phono cable with great success. I use AQ wires for everything else. Solid. 
aolmrd1241
1,042 posts
 
madavidO said..."I guess what that boils down to was that my system isn't, and still isn't, really capable of showing the difference between interconnects."



I'm sure Anticables will be happy to know that their products aren't a scam afterall. ; With the equipment you were using for evaluation purposes,any ability to discern was highly skewed from the getgo...
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