I myself have discovered MG Audio Design interconnects, at first from comments made by Arnie Nudell about them-that he himself found them to be he best avaliable at any price. Latr I found out that Paul McGown of PSAudio also uses them, and also that at a meeting of the Colorado Audio Society, that the members present for a demonstration favored the MG Audio Design interconnects over top of the line Nordhost Odin 2 models. That the MG Audio Design top of the line interconnects are $1600 for a one foot pair helped. But still they were too much for my budget. Then I found out that a half meter pair of them goes for only $900 a pair. To cut to the chase, they are easily the best interconnects that I have ever used. Far superior to my pair of Audience 24AUse pair. Anyway, these are not just good interconnects. They are easily state of the art. I presently ue an McIntosh MR74 tuner for most of my music. The audio reproduction that I am able to achieve listning to local FM rdio broadcasts in Boulder Colordo is simply incredible. I do not need to use my OPPO players or phonoplayback system to achieve audio nirvana. That is a simple truth. Of course one must have the power cord, power conditioning plus speaker wire combination to be able to achieve the total effect. Overall it can end up to be a costly endeavor but with careful selection it can be achieved. I am also using a bunch of Audioquest power cords, a JPS power cord for my 2 OPPO's and two Audioquest Niagara strips. Fortunatly I am able to use a one foot pair of MG Audio Design's top of the line speaker wires-which go for $900, combined with runs of Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires for my speaker wire configuration. In total, my modest audio system is able to achieve results much greater than could be expected otherwise. Anyway, overall I have spent a lot of money on my wire-power conditioning combination, but at a level of audio reproduction simply amazing. Simply, if one could hear my present audio system just on FM radio, they would be easily impressed. To be able to get the quality of audio reproduction from FM radio-you would have tohear it to believe it. I have found out over the decades that if one is able to get a superior sound quality from ones audio system using FM radio as the audio surce, then the higher resplution audio sources themself will truly be able to do their stuff to truly exceptional levels.
Opening a can of worms
Here is the can filled with opinions. It's been hashed and rehashed to infinity and beyond with no clear result. Since I am a seeker of truth I'll post my thoughts here for the yea and naysayers to debate over. Question is: Are expensive speaker or any other cable in a system worth the exorbitant cost over a reasonably priced cable loom? I thought I'd experiment myself to find out. My comparison is between Transparent Ultra cable loom and Blue Jeans cable loom on a pure stereo system comprised of Proceed PAV, Proceed PDSD, Krell Kav 250, Musical Fidelity A3cd, Sony Ps4300 TT and B&W 803D2 speakers. All sources were used by this experiment using identical playback material. Cables had in excess of 200 hrs burn time and all were identical in lenght. The only variation were the connector manufacturers.
One change that occurred during this 4 week long endeavor was that I'm firmly seated on the sharpest picket on the fence.
My result is that I'm now a believer that there are audible differences in cables. I also believe that these differences are minute and one has to really listen carefully and for a long time to discern these differences.
Now to the crutch of the matter, $$$$$, As we all know Transparent Cables would reside in the upper tier of Audio Cable expense. Blue Jeans Cable on the other hand falls into the lowest tier of expense (well maybe not lowest but low nontheless )
One would think then that the Transparent would be far superior to the BJs. Not really! Yes the highs were a little cleaner, mids a little tighter and lows a tad more pronounced but not by as much as one would expect. Soundstage was somewhat more open and airy and depth was somewhat more defined with the higher priced cable but again less than one would expect.
Now for my personal opinion regarding the cable debate: expensive cable looms are slightly better than reasonable priced looms, if a dollar equals a penny to you then by all means opt for the higher priced loom, if a penny equals a penny don't be ashamed for opting for the best you can do. The differences are so minute that it's not worth going into debt over. BOTH looms sounded superb on my test system and I would be happy with either loom.
Now let the debate begin, just know I'm a fence sitter and not in one camp or the other
One change that occurred during this 4 week long endeavor was that I'm firmly seated on the sharpest picket on the fence.
My result is that I'm now a believer that there are audible differences in cables. I also believe that these differences are minute and one has to really listen carefully and for a long time to discern these differences.
Now to the crutch of the matter, $$$$$, As we all know Transparent Cables would reside in the upper tier of Audio Cable expense. Blue Jeans Cable on the other hand falls into the lowest tier of expense (well maybe not lowest but low nontheless )
One would think then that the Transparent would be far superior to the BJs. Not really! Yes the highs were a little cleaner, mids a little tighter and lows a tad more pronounced but not by as much as one would expect. Soundstage was somewhat more open and airy and depth was somewhat more defined with the higher priced cable but again less than one would expect.
Now for my personal opinion regarding the cable debate: expensive cable looms are slightly better than reasonable priced looms, if a dollar equals a penny to you then by all means opt for the higher priced loom, if a penny equals a penny don't be ashamed for opting for the best you can do. The differences are so minute that it's not worth going into debt over. BOTH looms sounded superb on my test system and I would be happy with either loom.
Now let the debate begin, just know I'm a fence sitter and not in one camp or the other
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