Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good?

regarding the pricing.I myself really appreciate that Steve
tries to work with members if possible.I know he has set pricing on standard lengths and that the auction prices vary,but after I got 1 pair of GG's on auction and wanted speaker wire Steve tried his best to work with me.I've dealt with Steve enough to know that he works with people and is more than fair.I don't believe he let's customers set the price.
Maybe he may ask "what I have in mind " to gauge my budget or needs.How hany other places can you get a product of this quality from some one who actually cares and tries to help.I myself hope that he continues to auction and works with folks instead of having the cables go into mass production with price increases.
This is just my opinion

Budburma,
I would say that the cryoing I did made little or no difference. Again, I bought the cables as an experiment so I did the cryo thing. I checked with Steve to make sure that cryoing was OK from a damage stand point. He suggested that additional treatment probably wouldn't make much difference and he was right.

darealjaydee-right on! the gg's are fairly priced and steve is as helpful as he can possibly be, but he does (of course) have set prices. i was making a bit of joke by referring to that as another 'astral plane' and hope it wasn't taken poorly.

Rx8man....kci? i'll have to take a look! thanks!

I bought a GG Revelation IC for my headphone rig (CD->headphone amp, RCA) and I've been very pleased with the results. Steve was very helpful both before and after the sale, I felt completely safe all the way!

I haven't had too expensive cabling in this rig before, so it's hard to compare with the top stuff out there at this point. It clearly beats anything I've thrown at it so far, but mind you those are all cheaper cables. The sound I'm getting is best described as natural, open, very detailed and somewhat warm and seducive. Don't think it's murky and muddy, quite the opposite.. Very crisp and clear, but still a bit of warmth to it! Listening fatigue doesn't exist at all, I can listen to this rig all days long without tiring.

I ran into a weird situation when briefly testing the IC on a very high end rig that I've so far been unable to explain. Put simply, it was awful. It could just be that it needed to settle for a couple of hours, or it could be something else (hardware failure, severe mismatch with something else - I don't know). I'll be getting my long-awaited big rig in the few coming weeks and I intend to further explore the GGs then. :)

Nobody mentioned they look great by the way, hehe.. Get them in the black jacket with gold stripes on, that looks great! They're also very easy to handle: flexible and extremely light. They weigh practically nothing! I was quite surprised by that to be honest.

As for burn-in, I noticed marked improvements after a few days of continous play, so I'd say 75-100 hours before you do any critical listening. Still now, after 500+ hours, I think it sounds better than it did in the first week, so it continues to improve.

Did anybody compare to Virtual Dynamics or Synergistic Research cables..?

osgorth-check out the post by budburma on 4/14/07 I think he's tried even more cables than me!Something must have been wrong with 1 of the components or something to achieve a result like you stated with the big rig?I've been communicating with a few members who have the GG's and one of the biggest strengths besides the sound seems to be their synergy with everything there hooked up with.The results you're hearing with the headphone rig is what you should have heard in the big rig system.I just had a friend over yesterday to listen to my all GG system and he was floored.Miles Davis was over having a beer with us or at least he was there in the room