sonic signature of Pure Note Paragon Question

This thread is only useful to demonstrate the importance of break-in. As I said before, no one should judge a component or cable until many hours of break-in.

I thought I read it here but I recently read where a member stated that cables do not " soundstage " . The Paragons now have 215 hours on them and something amazing happened around 150 . Depth began increasing . It was not subtle and I am not imagining things. If this is not soundstagiong properties then what would you call it. I am now back to wanting to do a head to head with ..yes...... 3500.00 cables, the valhalla. I have an excellent memory for sonic signatures within a given system as long as the chain stays complete and i feel that even at this stage a comparison might prove interesting. Cables dont soundstage? Maybe yours dont in your system but here , its something to behold. These cables are really good and for what i paid { 50 % off deal } , a downright steal. This is the best money I have spent in a long time. . They stay. Thanks for all the help along the way.

Hello Brainwater,

I'm a year late on this archived thread, but how did the Paragon interconnects end up comparing to the Valhalla? Did you keep the Paragons in your system?

Two of my discoveries in the last two years are: Acoustic Reality eAR 1001 amps (2005) and Pure Note Paragon Enhanced cables (2006). I can spend a lot more money (and I'm willing to do that if necessary), but I don't need to.

Chris

I too am a year late coming to this thread but FWIW, about a year ago I pulled out my 10 meter QFil XLR between amp and pre and plugged in the Paragon Enhanced. It's still there. A little over two months ago I swapped my Valhalla bi-wire for Paragon Enhanced. Unlike Brainwater, there was no initial serious shortcomings... the speaker wires sounded awfully smooth and detailed ROOTB. However, last weekend I slid the Valhalls back in. The Verdict...the Paragons were easily 90% as capable as the Dost. The only performance area the PEs lagged in was three-dimensionality, and not by much and if I hadn't had the Valhallas as a longterm reference, no dissatisfaction would have been noted at all. We're talkin' a smidgeon here guys...no biggie. If I had to do it all over again I would definitely go with the Pure Notes. Value-wise, it's not even close.

BTW, the PEs couldn't possibly have more than 40 hours on them so I've probably prematurely judged them based on what others have reported here so I just might revisit them soon. I knew I was going to keep them all along so I didn't go into perpetual disco mode to beat out the 30 day ticker.