Cardas: Cross vs. Reference and Clear

There seemed to be a little more weight to the overall presentation in my system with the Cross in play. 

I haven't tried the newest rendition of Cardas, but none before worked well in my system. 

To follow Stringreens comment, the Cross were the only ones I liked I really didn't care for the others mentioned.

Thanks, stringreen. As you might guess, I've found Cardas a good match in my system, although I do hear them as being less transparent than some competitors.

A friend has been using Cross for years. He recently added a pair of Clear Light.  In direct comparison, he reports that Light maybe sounds a little louder at the same volume, with maybe more detail in the upper frequencies, but that they are very close overall. His system is solid state, as is mine. 

My experience with Cross and Clear (M) has been limited to the power cords in my own system. 

Cross was a mainstay in the Cardas lineup for nearly 20 years if I'm not mistaken. Altough Quadlink was replaced by Parsec, as yet, there is no direct replacement for Cross in the new lineup. I find that curious.

I have owned the Quad Link, Cross, and Golden Cross RCA IC and speaker cables.

Cardas's reference speakers at the time were Magnepan IIIA's and Tympani's.

The Golden Cross Speaker Cables work great with with my Magnepan 3.6's.

I use the Golden Cross iC from arm to phono stage, and is sounds the best ever, after trying many brands of ICs.

I found the Cross as a good RCA IC but I now use PRO Carare Star Quad XLRs with XLR outputs to inputs.  

All the cardas cables had very long (~200 hour) break in before they sounded their best.

They all had the old Cardas "house" sound - Warm mids, deep full bass, extends high frequencies, big sound stage. 

Cables are always dependent on what equipment they are connected to IMO. YMMV.