Purist, Legenburg or K-S?

Khrys, my experience has been somewhat parallel to Jfrech. You have a lovely system, yet to me, your cabling is the one thing "wrong with this picture."

I think you should just spend a little money with the Cable Company and borrow a set of Venustas (IC and spkr) and then ditto a set of Harmonic Tech, Virtual Dynamic, and Ridge Street -- any one of which will open up your system so you can really hear what you been missing with the Cardas stuff.

Besides offering you as many cables as you wish to audition,
ALL THE CABLES THEY'LL LEND YOU ARE USED!! That is so important IMO for evaluating cables, as I said.

And when you've decided, you dont have to buy all your replacements from them (their used prices a just a little higher than the open market) you can just buy one pair of Ics, or a PC to use up your credit, and get the rest on Agon as it becomes available (once you've decided what you want, it's a lot easier to wait for a good deal ;--)
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Thanks again for your recommedations. You've validated my growing belief that I could seriously improve the system by changing out the Cardas GR and that it is certainly worth the effort to audition other contenders, though I find changing out cables to be tedious. NO pain no gain so they say!
Looks like I'll be spending quite some time with the Cable Company. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Just be aware that the Cable Company charges for the rentals and retains that amount towards future purchases.
The amount of rentals and that retained amount can grow to a sizable sum.
As long as you know you will purchase something from them at close to retail , I guess thats ok.
But, if you see a good deal on a used cable or prefer a brand that they dont carry ,(Kubala ,Ridgestreet, etc.) you cant get your retainage back.

Just letting you be aware of this.

Thanks Ozzy. For many reasons optimizing cables seems to be the most problematic. Fortunately there are sufficiently confident owners/dealers of fine wire in LA willing to lend their wares for competitive evaluation in my system gratis. I will probably use Cable Company as well but if I rack up enough unused credits with them I'll just cash them in for snake oil which has rarely failed to improve whatever I thought I wasn't hearing.

Lesson learned yet again: there is no substitute for a reputable high end dealer.I assembled an impressive array of Purist and K-S cables to audition in comparison to my Cardas GR. They were all different but uniformly entertaining despite their competing proprietary electrophysioharmonics.

After the W/P8s had settled a bit my dealer came over to follow up and he clearly identified the problems that had been acctuated by the addition of the W/P8s were not cable related but in fact due to the failing tube complement of the HP 200.

Replacing the tubes brought back all the dynamics, resolution and dimensionality I had been missing for a fraction of the cost of any of these new cables.

The Purist and K-S cables are remarkable but with my system re-optimized I found them each to be different but not necessarily better than the GR I already had. And never did I end up tempted to pony up the spark for the new contenders even though I am fortunate enough to have easily done so.

Please do not take this as a negative impression of Purist or K-S. In my system alone they produced only differences that weren't sufficient to cause me to change out the GR I already had. Cost notwithstanding.