To loom or not to loom?


Ladies and Gentlemen.

I am asking for your experiences in running a complete loom of one brand of cable, experiences not opinions and conjecture please.

I have 2 systems with interconnects from DH Labs and Zavfino, Speaker cables from Zavfino and Wireworld. Power cables are a mishmosh of LessLoss (digital front end) Zavfino (tubes), SR Research SS monoblocks, all great quality cables. 

Should I look at consolidating each system to a specific brand and model of cables or is this a fool's errand? 

Again if you do not have specific experiences please refrain from posting gibberish and innuendo. 

audio_is_subjective64

@fuzztone So thanks for the post. No most of the trade publications, sites and cable manufacturers are using this as a description for continuity and having one brand of cabling. for example from PTA and TMR. I know you are being literal and trying to be clever. Guess that backfired. Gibberish.

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@audio_is_subjective64 My goal or vision didn't start with a cable loom as an end goal. 

I did experiment with cables starting with speaker cable.  I had several brands and Kimber Kable Bifocal XL was a clear winner.

After I realized speaker cables made a difference I tried several interconnects.  I tried silver, copper and even a hybrid.  Kimber won again.

On power used Furman and tried Shunyata and noticed a difference in distribution then in power cables.  

I've heard Nordost and Transparent and believe there are several excellent options.  I also believe the incremental investment for me to get to 'one manufacturer' is not worth the money.  (And I can hear Homer Simpson saying "so far").

This summer I heard a Nordost "Loom" and the results were remarkable.  I owned the preamp, DAC/Streamer and amp they were using and I was floored on the dynamics, detail and finesse of the music.  

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+1 it depends.  Looms may create brand sonic consistency which may be lost when using multiple brands.  OTOH I prefer to shop by cable types: analog interconnects, digital/ethernet, power cords, speaker cables.