PAD Venustas

I have a Phono Cable from PAD for a check, it's name is HDI Phono Cable. That's a good one. Is it rare? What confuses me a little bit, it is cheaper than Venustas and better in my opinion. Anyone out there who knows it?

I demo'd both the purist acqueous anniversary and the purist dominus and the difference was so startling that I began to wander whether the purist acqueous anniversary were defective. They were both cooked by the dealer before sending to me and were demos to boot. The dominus also smoked by nordost valhallas so I figured the acqueous was not defective.

I have not tried the venustas but cannot imagine they are worse than the acqueous. But then again, all cables are system dependent and the more revealing your system is the better or worse a cable could potentially sound.

Now I just wish I could afford a 11 foot dominus speaker cable.

Kharmapolice, RE: Venustas and Aqueous Anniversary.

These two cables have similarities and differences, it seems to matter a great deal where in the system the comparison is made. Dominus is such a world beater it almost doesn't matter where it's placed, it is generally preferred.

Oddly enough, Europe seems to favor Aqueous Anniversary and the USA seems to favor Venustas. Differences? I would call the Venustas fuller in the bass and less forward in the midrange than Venustas. Venustas worked a miracle between phono cartridge and RIAA stage, actually beating my Dominus in that (one) position.

Since then I swapped all interconnect and speaker cables to the new top of the line Purist Anniversary. I judge them (about) half again the improvement Dominus is over Aqueous Anniversary.

I installed the new Purist Anniversary AC cables two weeks ago and am just now getting them broken in. These new AC cables surpass even the Auctorita (German Dominus) that was my previous standard.

"Oddly enough, Europe seems to favor Aqueous Anniversary and the USA seems to favor Venustas."

Albert, why do you think this is?

Tony, I honestly don't know.

The owner of Purist says Sweden and Germany are going absolutely crazy over Aqueous Anniversary, but of the guys here in the USA that have borrowed both from me, over half preferred Venustas.

Perhaps USA customers have significantly different taste in sound and/or music, or maybe it's something else, like overall effect on their stereo PLUS their surround sound. It's just wild guess at this point, maybe we can determine over time :^).