Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit

Hi Dave,
99% likelyhood that they were crimped if at all practical from what I know of the gentleman behind the loudspeaker.

Ken

Thanks Ken: I will take a look at the crossover connections and see what I can do without modding anything for a trial run. I might be able to split (on one side) a piece of the empty OTA insulation and make a preasure clamp of sorts out of it. I'm sure that it should be fairly simple to get something temporary going.

Caterham1700, I was wondering where those isolation shelves came from! Nice work. 47 labs had them all resting directly on the floor (no rack at all). Did you intend them to be used this way? Besides visually reinforcing the idea of simplicity, I could not understand the reason for a rackless system--especially since the 47 Labs room was on the third floor of the Hotel, and people were tramping in and out regularly. Either: they have a very casual attitude towards resonance and vibration; or: they place absolute trust in your shelves. They also had a very relaxed attitude about moving the STRATOS cables around. They continually moved one between the FLATFISH CD Player to the PITRACER CD Player without any noticeable signs of anxiety that this would jeapordize the sound of their display system. As for the geometric arrangement of the cables, they did not twist the two cables around each another, but ran them parallel and adjoining with sharp bends to ensure a rectilinear cable infrastructure. It was difficult to detect the type of movement-induced anomalies to the cables that have been referred to here since each move of the cable was continually accompanied by a change of component, and because the speaker system was limited low frequency, and also because they played recordings with limited bass and also because the listening session had to satisfy the demands of product exhibition for a large mass of people. Despite all that, I thoroughly enjoyed this system's lucidity.

My OTA cables are now back on the woofers after burn-in, and settled down, and I take back any of my previous reservations. The sound is much better than garden hose on the woofers and OTA on the electrostatic. The garden hose sounds ponderous and noisy by comparison. Don't know why, but they took much longer to burn in than the others.

Redkiwi: I logged 300+ hours on my set, but it was easy because I used a SS amp for 200+ hours of it. No way would I have been able to do that with the tube amp alone in such as short time. I am glad to hear that they have worked out for both applications on your setup as I had no way to judge the "way low" frequencies myself. Now all that I have to do is to find a way to keep "Eddie the Thug", our largest cat from clipping them off of the speaker terminals (he's the cat that "hugs" the speakers). Kitch gave me a few good ideas that I will check out. Are you going to try it out in the SS system at the getaway residence? Ken has done the true test though, IMO, his vinyl posts of late have me drooling for a turntable and a phono preamp again. I shopped a few thrift stores out in the Valley today (as in Valley Girl) and the LP assortment was mind boggling @ 99 cents a copy.