Which cardas IC for Ayre components?
The Golden Reference at a heavily discounted price (see below) would be my call. Wanted Golden Reference but couldn't justify the cost so I went with Golden Presence instead. Very pleased with the quality of Cardas cables (ICs & speaker cables). https://www.partsconnexion.com/cardas-audio-legacy-golden-reference-interconnect-cables.html |
cardas to me is a frustrating brand... pricey to very pricey, yet so many of their cables are so opaque and overly smoothed/smeared in sound to my ears (compared to significantly lesser priced competitors) their higher stuff like their reference/golden reference series are more transparent, yet to me, they fail to outperform much more reasonably priced brands like audioquest wireworld zu and straightwire of course the quality of their cables is excellent, have an expensive feel to them, but at the end of the day, it is about how they sound i have no affiliation to any brands i have mentioned... i do own the ayre px5e and kx5e mp |
Be aware of the consequences speaker cables can have on an amp... An acquaintance once used TOTL Cardas speaker cables on his Ayre amp and due to their very high capacitance it damaged the amp - it caused the amp to oscillate. He then tried those same cables on a "loaner" Gryhon amp and blew that also - OUCH! High Current solid state designs tend to have this issue, but tube amps are not impacted Regards - Steve |
