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Oyaide Cables

Information on this cable brand was showing up in another thread, which is fine, but I figured this cable line deserves it's own thread.  I have very little experience with the brand so far as I have only had the Black Mamba V2 PC  in my system for about 200 plus hours and just installed the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 PC last night.  I only need one PC for my system at this time as my Integrated amp has a DAC and my music streamer doesn't take after market PCs.    Firstly, the Black Mamba V2 PC is excellent.  I know audio is very system dependent, but in my system the BM V2 was the best PC I have had, it really made a noticeable difference.  It kind of gives you the  best of both words, good clarity and extension but at the same time the system is relaxed and natural sounding.  Very important if you have a lot of rock and pop and poorly produced material in your music collection.   The Tsunami GPX-R V2 PC improves upon the BM V2 in that the air and spacing is better, the stage is deeper and wider,  and the bass is still tight, but thicker.   I am thrilled with these PCs so I ordered the Tunami Nigo V2 speaker cables and those should be here soon.  I am very happen with the Western Electric 14 GA, but after hearing how good their PCs are, I just had to give the Oyaide SC a try.     Anyway, bottom line is I suspect it would be very hard to find a line of cables that sound this good at such affordable prices.  A Big thanks to Wig for letting me know about these PCs and Speaker cables and guiding me along.  
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@kclone funny how that works out isn't it. I thought I had ordered the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 but by mistake, I ordered the  TUNAMI GPX V2.
Now, I'm waiting for delivery of the  TUNAMI GPX-R V2 from Japan.
I ordered the GPX-R V2 on 2/12 and a few days ago realized I never received a tracking number, contacted the eBay store and the gentleman said oh, sorry, I got busy and forgot to ship it! Oh well, it's on the way to me now. I want to compare the Black Mamba to the other two.
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It is weird, I will not say one is better than the other.  It just depends on what your in the mood for or what fits best with your gear.  Like I said, I really enjoyed the GPX R V2, it has it's strengths for sure and I will likely revisit it soon.   In my system the Tunami GPX R-V2 kind of spreads things out, creates a lot of air and space plus provides a thicker heavier bass.  The Black Mamba still images well, the stage is quite as wide or deep, but things are very focused and coherent.  At first I thought the GPX R V2 was the warmer of the two, but I no longer think that is the case.  Both are natural sounding and work well with most of the recordings.  In other words, they don't sound brittle, bright, hard.  I am very sensitive to that these days and if a cable exposes that in a recording at to high of a level, out it goes.  Obviously, they can't fix crap recordings, but at least they are listenable. 
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Good review of the Oyaide 5S Continental usb cable :-

https://positive-feedback.com/Issue60/ramblings.htm
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~48 hours my BM Σ v2 cable opened up, and has more air. I'm up to 200 hours, now. Does the cable ever get liquid in sound? That would be my greatest criticism, at this point. 

Has anyone had their cables cryo'd?
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@sadono, I have some power cords that the manufacturer cryoed. I also made come power cords that I had cryoed and after a long break-in, in my opinion, I preferred that flavor.
I have no idea if the Oyaide power cords are cyroed or not. Does anyone know for sure?
If they aren't cryoed I'll bet that cryogenically treating them would be a good thing, but one never knows until they try that favor.
On a slightly different note I received my TUNAMI GPX-R V2 power cord and currently have it on my cable burner along with a Matrix power cord.
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