Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good?

JC,

Great write up.

Sounds as if you have been cought up like the rest of us Rapture owners.

JC,

Nice summary, I'm glad that you are enjoying your new GG Rapture interconnects. Also, it looks like you have a lovely system, I'm a fan of ARC and Dynaudio.

I would suggest that you give up on chasing the digital dream though, and just spin some more vinyl. Your vinyl rig looks to be pretty good, and I'm sure it will sound better than any digital gear that you can get....even with a tubed DAC.

Read my reply to Rja on 11/16/07 in this thread to further understand my analog feelings.

Cheers,
John

John, thanks for the kind words about my system. My speakers are ProAc 3.8s, not Dynaudios, however. I know what you are saying when you refer to chasing the digital dream. When I listen to analog for a time, it is very difficult to "adapt" back to digital. Digital's shortcomings, at least the ones present in my gear, become much more apparent after listening to analog. I still think I can improve my digital front end and will start my journey soon by borrowing an ARC DAC7 just to hear how significant a difference using a newer dac might bring to the music.

Hehe....ah yeah, ProAc, that's what I meant. I was thinking of my friend's ARC/Dynaudio system subconciously I suppose. He has the Contour S 3.4's. Actually I do think the Dynaudio speakers have a lot in common with ProAc's. They're both non-fatiguing, easy on the ears, and very musical, similar to my Verity Audio Parsifal Encore's.

Enjoy the tunes,

John

Hey man, you copping my tag line!? just shucking and jivin you, john. i have to hit the hay, but will interject that the rapture speaker cable is equal, if not superior, in upgrade capacity for a (my) system than the interconnects. more later....g'nite and
enjoy the tunes yourownbadself!