To loom or not to loom?

@ghdprentice +1, I think it depends.

I have Shunyata power and Kimber speaker cables and interconnects.

I am very happy with where I am and don't expect to move towards 1 loom.  

@overthemoon So you never went the loom route. Thanks. 

So I must ask as a mfr of both tube and GaN amplification what have been your experiences and are their brands and types of cables you prefer.

@audio_is_subjective64 Because we made the first balanced line preamps and amps for home use it didn’t occur to us to not support the balanced standard. Because we do, the cable is really unimportant to the sound, because its the equipment that does the heavy lifting instead of the cables; IOW the equipment prevents the cables from having a coloration.

So we make up Mogami Neglex interconnect cables. The Mogami cables are not expensive and are a high quality cable intended for use in recording and broadcast. We put Neutrik connectors on the cables; Neutrik still makes the best XLR connectors out there. We make a balanced tonearm cable too which uses a low capacitance Mogami cable.

The balanced standard really works- I’ve put Mogami cable up against balanced ’high end audio’ cables that cost $1000.00/foot and had the Mogami come out on top.

@stereo5 thank you for your insight, you and @ghdprentice as well as Mr Ralph have me rethinking the loom theory. I am quite pleased with all my power cords and IC, though I am intrigued by the Analysis Plus line of cables. 

Many cables - signal & power - have been auditioned in my system over the years. I wasn’t convinced that a full loom was better.

That was then. Now, I’ve transitioned to a full loom of signal cabling by Synergistic Research - Atmosphere Series - upper tiers. Their approach is fairly unique. My system sounds the best it ever has.

To loom or not to loom?

An audio system needs to be fairly well tuned-up to appreciate the benefits of the upper tiers by any manufacturer.

Still, I can see holding on to any cables from another brand if they’re contributing to the quality of music.

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I’m slowly transitioning to SR’s pc’s. The biggest impact has been with SR’s digital pc’s. They’re on to something. Since I stream 100%, this is a welcome addition.

My other PC’s are Transparent, Purist and Snake River Audio. They’re solid performers. No rush to replace them.

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I’ve tried a LessLoss C-Marc pc and a LessLoss AES digital. Too sterile for me. YMMV