Hi williewonka, a belated return to thread, sometimes life gets in the way.
I’m now about to turn my attention to power cables and would like recommendations from you for a schuko plug, perhaps an all out best and next best.
I have been thoroughly enjoying the interconnects I made and on a visit to an audio show in Dublin I took along a pair of cables on the off chance I could compare them to some expensive and well regarded big name stuff as a sanity check. The most impressive was the all Gryphon room, all Gryphon cabling. They do not entertain the idea of anything else. The system comes at about Euro 250000
The chap in attendance named Rune agreed to the comparison at end of day. Analogue was via XLR and so I used one of my pair for digital which accepted RCA. My wife, Rune and I sat front center in that order and listened for about 20 minutes to a variety of music. The Gryphon cable was XLR so we set it via remote 3dB lower and did swap overs on the fly. Well, hmmm, very little difference was heard. My wife said she watched his face and that he looked a bit shocked. I heard slightly more assertive chords on grand piano, bass and treble too close to call. When I asked Rune what he heard he said tonality, it’s in the tone. Well he had to say something, his boss was standing near! I asked the boss his impression who said it had been a long day and wasn’t really listening.
The Gryphon cable sells for Euro 5000 so this is a sterling effort from you considering his cables had been running all day and mine played with no settling time at all.