New WIREWORLD Eclipse 8 series FULL REVIEW

Assuming WireWorld has continued to refine their decades old goal of maximum possible neutrality, if their cables do not work out in a system, a logical conclusion would be that the problem is something other than the wire. Rather than an expensive bandaid ("warmer", in other words, distortion generation that appear as "warmth"), fix the problem elsewhere in the system.

In many cases, the problem is the speaker. No surprise as most buy speakers based on reviews and good deals, not an audition in their home with their equipment. Now begin the endless cycle of upstream gear changes and tweaks to try and change the basic character of the speaker, again euphonic distortion generating bandaids. Of course, assuming the listening and speaker positions have been dialed in exactly; another unlikely event for most system owners. Without this hopeless cycle, most audio dealerships would close.

To those who claim that silver coated copper (or tin for that matter like the very well regarded Duelund wire) can't possibly sound good, I very much doubt they have actually auditioned the Wireworld Sliver Eclipse 8 products in their system.

Why do most dealers carry many cable lines if one brand is the most neutral? My guess; easy money. An honest dealer would only sell the most neutral and if there is an issue, help their customer identify what is wrong elsewhere in their system. Good luck finding one.

I'm not interesting in debating this. Just my opinion, take it or leave it.

And, then you also have the, "my brand is the most neutral" response. Very much doubt these guys have auditioned the Wireworld cables being discussed in their system much less the 100s of other brands on the market.

Of course, the million dollar question is, why are there 100s of cable brands on the market???

You guessed it; easy money.

@tweak1 , No, just that most speaker cables are.

ww eclipse 8 sadly did not work out for me. chain, a node n130 usb out to holo audio may kte, ww e8 xlr out to benchmark hpa4, ww e8 xlr out to benchmark ahb2 powering perlisten s7t. top end and mids were warm but veiled, felt like lots of detail was missing, little air at all, tight soundstage, imaging felt off, vocals, especially female vocals were dull, bass was loose and bloated. it honestly kills me to say it as i researched a TON and had a lot of faith and excitement for these cables. i tried to blame other parts of my chain but as soon as i swapped out ww for worlds best cable (canare / neutrik) my soundstage tripled in size, the veil was lifted, air was back, detail returned, the bass had bite and sharp resolution. it was a VAST difference. only complaint w wbc is maybe a little too bright and forward. on hunt now for something like the wbc only a little less emphasis on top end. i love the added detail in mid and top but the brightness is fatiguing. goes to show how synergy always trumps dollars when adding to your chain. 100% agree w posts stressing get a bunch of cables to evaluate. and for cable doubters, if you have not tried playing w swapping out a few cables, you might be surprised. i certainly was!

I'm currently running in WW Eclipse 8 rca's between my Marantz 30n sacd and Musical Fidelity Ms8 preamp and after about 200hrs I ordered the XLR's to go between the preamp and Halo JC5, the xlr's arrived yesterday and are currently running in. The cables I'm testing them against are Morrow MA4 rca's which the Pure Harmony plugs and the MA xlr's for the amp. Between the Marantz and preamp convinced me to get the xlr's due to the top to bottom coherence tonal balance and just flat out musicality. Nothing missing that the Morrow's had but and overall increase instrument placement ,air midrange articulation and taunt bass. I'm extremely impressed with Eclipse 8's in that application and hope a further increase in fidelity is to had with the xlr's or is just the balance and or synergy between the MA5 xlr's and the Eclipse 8 rca's ?