Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous

First a comment about power cords: Dominus is essential for amps and (believe it or not) DACs. You can get away with other fine PCs (Venustas, etc.) elsewhere.

All my ICs are Venustas. I don't think there would be any discernable any sonic difference between Venustas and Aqueous since the only physical difference is in the jacket (not the conductors.) And personally, I feel that the 100% Ferox jacket (Venustas, Dominus) provides better shielding -- with comparable mechanical isolation to the Ferox/fluid combo (Aqueous, Purist Anniversary)

Finally (and this may not concern you, I don't know) the Anniversary Purist and Aqueous products will only be made this year and then discontinued. Whereas the Musaeus, Venustas, and Dominus will continue in production. And generally, discontinued products don't hold their resale value as well as current models.

I don't think there would be any discernable any sonic difference between Venustas and Aqueous

There is a huge difference between the two. I own both, and would suggest that Raytebeest would prefer the Aqueous IC's, as they are closer to the above-listed criteria than are the Venustas. As far as the speaker cables are concerned, we use the Aqueous in our system, which are sonically equivalent to the IC's. I have not heard the Venustas.

Boa2, since you have both, I assume you made A-B comparisons. What are these "huge" differences?

The Purist Anniversary & Aqueous Anniversary at first were going to be just made this year. But according to Jim at Purist the Dealers have told him that if he stop the line they would hit over the head. So the Purist & Aqueous will not stop.

ok thank you all for you input. I just talked to Jim and he to thinks I should go for the Aqueous. But if there are more people who did an a/b compare please respons here