In my praise of the Eichmann, and now the KLE, bullet plug, I did not mean to slight the Xhadow. It looks to be very well designed and certainly influenced by the Eichmann design. Yes, I think I overheated at least one bullet plug in my lifetime, but I think I salvaged it. I did melt an XLO XLR connector, but good. Which is to say, I had to trash it. I am not sure, but I think "Anti-Cable" Company recently switched from KLE to Xhadow connectors on its top line of cables. I know and trust the owner, Paul Speltz; he is like we are, a serious listener, but he happens to be an EE and very smart in this field, as well.
Vintage DIN phono cables, any good?
The question is about old DIN tonearm phono cables for the top of the line vintage Japanese tonearms.
I wonder how good those old cables are compared to the mid priced new cables ?
For example an old Audio Craft, SAEC, Fidelity Research, SONY cables made for their top of the line tonearms are good? It's easy to replace an old RCA connectors, but what about the cables? Some of them are silver and must be a good quality.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
I wonder how good those old cables are compared to the mid priced new cables ?
For example an old Audio Craft, SAEC, Fidelity Research, SONY cables made for their top of the line tonearms are good? It's easy to replace an old RCA connectors, but what about the cables? Some of them are silver and must be a good quality.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
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I like comical stories if they can enlighten the issue involved like a kind of introduction. Two Serbian hunters are walking in the montain searching for animals. ''Look there at the top of the montain: a (montain) goat''. ''You must be blind'' say the other ''it is obviously an eagle''. The disagrement lasts till the ''thing on the montain top'' started to fly. ''Do you see an eagle!'' say the ''eagle man''. ''Still a goat'' say the other. i remembered this story by reading the 3th post of our dear chakster about the RCA connectors. |
@nandric i wonder why Frank, the designer of Signal Cable Silver Sesolution (beloweb by your brother Don), don’t use ETI Bullets anymore? It’s stated on his site. His new choice is not KLE from Eichman, but the "standard rca" or more expensive traditional Neutric ProFi RCA and there is no other options for some reason. |
@lewm I know and trust the owner, Paul Speltz; he is like we are, a serious listener, but he happens to be an EE and very smart in this field, as well. Meanwile the designer of that old Xhadow RCA made his own new LoveCraft RCA and claimed they are even better, the good news (i just noticed that) the price is cheaper than Xhadow and they are available direct from the designer just for $80 (pair) here. I use the LoveCraft RCA on my best phono cable (Stereolab Master Reference) and i love it. Strange that each time i talk about Chris Sommovigo products (cables) his name is still new to the audiogonners, while he was in business for 25 years. I don't think that his idea to make Xhadow connectors comes from Eichman, those Xhadows are pretty old design. I think this 6moons review expain very well who's Chris Sommovigo. The reviewer is Srajan Ebaen. |
Dear chakster, I am not Frank but guess that the price difference between Neutric and Eichman is the reason. One usually don't ask his butcher about the quality of his meat. There is even a Dutch saying about this: ''the bucher should not value his own meat''. But why should you refer to others? You have your own ears. The fact that your hands are not ''born'' for soldering ''art '' you can't ascribe to Eichmann. Anyway if one looks at both kinds one can easylly see the opposite philosophy of their making: one point ground and thrifty use of metal by Eichmann and the opposite by Hhadow. Read the first post by Lew about this ''philosophy'' and wonder about his last post . I think that he never considered carrer in diplomacy. Even with Raul he keeps friendly relation. This is, alas, not given to us the ordinary humans (grin). |
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