REALITY CABLES ?


Has anyone tried these cables from Gregg Straley yet? http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=21478
tin_cup
Dbld, My earliest post at the very top of this thread is still operative. Even the slightest change while tweaking in one of my Reality outfitted systems is easily heard, so it's ideal when a system is basically voiced the way you like it, and you're checking out any system alterations. These wires "speak the truth" ,as the old cliche goes.
Judging by how exciting my Reality wired systems sound, I imagine you could really have a ball with Reality in your current super system.
I find that consistently using a single manufacturer's wiring throughout one system usually allows the full benefit of a particular design and material approach.
Any component fine tuning is accomplished separately with tweaking, and need the wiring to be the ultimate conduit of what the system becomes capable of delivering.
The final step is room tuning, once the wiring gets the best through to your speakers.
I ordered a set of interconnects, speaker cables and power cords. I have a very high end system Dynaudio Evidence Temptation, MBL9007 dual mono amplifiers, Theta Digital Generation VIII dac, GoldMund Reference with Van Den hul Grasshopper IV cartridge. I am in the process of upgrading my cables and are currently in the process of trying cables from differenct high end cable manufacturers like Tara Labs, Harmonic Technology, Siltech, Siversmith, Kubala-Sosna, and NBS. I currently own Acoustic Zen and Cardas Golden Reference. I won't get Gregg's cable for 2 weeks but I will keep you guys posted on how this cable stacks up against high end cables on a high end system. My system is so sensitive, it reveals everything about cables.
Stereo_phile, Would you include the price of each contestant in your ongoing shootout when you post any update?
Your system, and the wiring that has worked for you until now, already reads like an audiophile's dream list.
I have not try them,but I heard them from Markr1
place they do sound very good...Mark also has a high
respect to Gregg..
Ok, here is the report on the full set of Reality cables: a pair of Reality Speaker cables 6ft, a pair of interconnect 1.5 meter, and two power cords. I was really looking forward to these cables replacing my expensive cables so to be fair, I put the cables into my FryKleaner Pro cable burner for 3 days and put it on my system for additional 154 hours.

First of all my equipment and price as Listerner57 requests are as follows:

Dytnaudio Evidence Temptation speakers - $40,000
MBL9007 Reference Mono 440 Watt amps - $26,600
Theta Generation VIII dac - $9,000
GoldMund Reference turntable - $25,000
Van Den Hul Grasshopper IV Cartridge - $7,000
Theta Compli Multiformat Transport - $6,000
Theta and turntable connected to BPT 3.5 Signature Plus conditioner
8 isolated ground 20 amp MC cable(35 amp capable) cryo treated ac lines with isolated ground Hubbel IG8500 cryo treated outlets.

There are more equipment I don't want to list and bore you but the above is what was used as associated test equipment and my classical concert Disney Hall trained ears. Can't get much better than this to judge cables IMO.

Speaker Cables:

The cables I have compared with are:

Tara Labs The One - 8ft
Acoustic Zen Double Barrel 8ft bi-wire
Cardas Golden Reference - 8 ft pair
Bogdan Spirit X shotgun - 8 ft pair
Analysis Plus Crystal Oval 8 - 8ft pair
Reality Cable 8ft pair

By the way, the order above is in order of ranking. Tara Labs The One and Acoustic Zen Double Barrel are very close in performance and have unbelievably huge soundstage, imaging, detail, neutrality and musicality. These clearly outperform the next two which are Cardas Golden Reference and Bogdan Spirit X speaker cables which are similar in performance. Cardas Golden Reference is a warmer cable while Spirit X is more neutral but similar in terms of performance and 85% of the top performers. I would rank Analysis Plus Crystal Oval 8 and Reality Cables are about the same in performance giving Analysis Plus and overall edge over Reality Cables. I would say Reality Cable speaker cables are about IMO is 7 our of 10 performer. Its not all its cracked up to be. I wish it was as it would have saved me lots of money but there is no way I'll take out my reference cables. I can see taht maybe in a lesser system, you can't tell the difference. However, in my high end high resolution system, you can definitely tell the difference.

Interconnect: I had a shootout about 2 months ago when I compared Tara Labs Zero($17,800), Tara Labs 0.5($7,800), Acoustic Zen Silver Reference, Cardas Golden Reference, Neotech 3001, Cyberlight P2A, and Bogdan Spirit. Tara Labs and Cyberlight P2A were clear winners. Tara Labs were ever so slightly better(due to being more quiet) than Cyberlight P2A but I could not justify the price so I ended up with Cyberlight P2A. Cardas Golden Reference and Bogdan Spirit X was next best giving Cardas a warmer presentation while Bogdan had more neutral presentation. Acoustic Zen Silver Reference in this case was a dissapointment. Anyway, I kept Cyberlight P2A, Cardas Golden Reference and Bogdan Spirit X around and compared Reality Cable interconnect. Sorry,not even close. It's even worse than Acoustic Zen Silver Reference.

Power Cords:

I have a pair of NBS Statement power cords($3,000 each), Cardas Golden Reference power cords, BPT L-10 and FIM Silver power cords. Reality cables are a joke both for amp power connection as well as component power connection. I think Greg even admits this. My favorite power cord is NBS Statement - it rocks for amp connection. Cardas is great for component power connection.

So as a result, I returned all cables to Greg thanking him for the evaluation trial period but these are not for me.

Hope this helps.