Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous

Nsgarch, wouldn't that then make the Musaeus the "Venustas lite"? Musaeus, Venustas and Dominus are the only three cables in the PAD line to mix silver and copper conductors.

Hi J Mc -
As I tried to express in my previous, the Musaeus model, although made of the same "stuff" as Venustas and Dominus, just doesn't provide the same qualities (even in lesser amounts) as its two more expensive brothers. Many people feel (and I still do) that the Venustas line represents the best price/performance tradeoff of all the high priced cables available. It's one of those products where you'd truly have to (at least) double what you spend just to get a 10% performance increase -- and then only if your system (or hearing) is resolving enough to hear the improvement ;~)

There are some other little exceptions too: for instance the Dominous Power cords are in a class by themselves -- which is to say that in my (ever humble ;~) opinion, nothing else I've tried comes close (not even the
Venustas.) For high power applications/devices, it's in a class by itself; which, considering its cost, makes it a (relative) bargain ;~))

While I am not disagreeing how good the Venustas is, it is 4X's the price of the Musaeus. You are right, the ancilllary equipment should dictate which would work best. I don't see Venustas cables making sense in a $10K system.

All I'm saying is that yes, the Venustas is a nice option for those that cannot afford to wire a system with all Dominus. Similarly, the Musaeus is a nice option for folks who can't afford to wire a system with all Venustas.

I do agree with you about the Dominus power cords, they are a classic.

Aqueous Powercables are great for amps. For sources I have my doubts. I used it a few times and compared it with the Valhalla of Nordost. This one was in resolution superior. At poweramps the Aqueous was superior. At the end of this week I will get the new Purist Audio LE powercable for my Pass x250.5. I am very curious what it will bring. Purist Audio powercables are stunning in low freq, much more open mid's compared to other powercables. And a lot of depth and black.