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I own the Wilson Sophia 2s and of course LOVE them. I just recently discovered a fantastic new line of cables from Virtual Dynamics. I was trying the Cardas Golden Reference power cords when I found these, and much prefer the Virtual Dynamics product. Here is a photo of my Wilson/Ayre/Virtual system they put up on their website:

http://www.virtualdynamics.ca/content.php?id=96&secondary_id=52

I have since upgraded all the cables and power cords to Reference 2 model, with one Genesis prototype power cord on the CD player. Virtual Dynamics Cable and Power Cords are truly spectacular. They cast a huge pinpoint accurate soundstage with lots of depth and perfect focus. They are wonderfully musical, and come complete with tears and goosebumps when the music touches your heart.

I traded old style Transparent Reference cable to buy these, and I will never look back. My audiophile friends cannot BELIEVE the difference these cables made in my system.

I suggest calling the company and chatting with James. They are a very friendly company and it is a free call. Great prices on B-stock and demo cables, here on Audiogon auctions, and directly from the company. The reason so many people are selling is the stuff is so good, it is addictive, and like me, people trade up a lot. But even their lower end lines will FLOOR you. At least that is what happened to me, many weeks and dollars ago.

Virtual Dynamics is up there among the very best available, just read the forums here and see what others are saying. I am in no way affiliated with the company, just one of their biggest fans !!

Mert: How about first describing what you are trying to fix or how you want to tune your system? More detail? Warmer? Softer? Faster? Quicker attack?

I found the Cardas a little darker on top compared to the transparent, and a little warmer in the mids. But I would compare Cardas Reference against Super MM.

Tarsando: I find that Nordost cables add too much detail to an already detailed speaker, plus they provide a thinner mid range. Maybe a perfect match with warmer fuller tube equipment....

I prefer the Transparent cabling with my Wilson WP7's and my Solid State Theta Gear.

A couple of posts above, I made an error. I called the Virtual Dyanamics Revelation 2 cable "Reference 2". I still had Transparent on my mind I guess, but all my current cables are REVELATION 2 model from Virtual Dynamics (with one Genesis on my CD player), and I am loving the results.

Paul

I own a pair of Wilson Watt Puppies 5.1's driven by T+A electronics from Germany. I have owned cables from Transparent (Reference XL's), Synergistic Research (X Series and X2) and most recently before switching, Nordost Valhalla's. Now let me say that these cables have all sounded different in my system delivering strengths where others had weaknesses and visa versa. I have initially been attracted to a cable and it's sound only to miss a strength from the previous cable so I was the preverbal dog chasing its tail in a circle- no perfect cable exists or so I believed.

I recently tried Synergistic Research's new Tesla Series cables in my system. My first audition was for two pairs of Accelerator interconnect and one pair of Accelerator speaker wire to go head to head with my Nordost Valhalla interconnects and speaker wire. Now mind you the Tesla cables all combined cost less then just one pair of the Valhalla’s, so I did not expect much but that's the cable my dealer had to loan at the time (The Cable Co.) so I gave them a listen- WOW. These cables had the speed and inner detail of the Valhalla’s, and the bloom and sound stage of my old Synergistic Research Designers' Reference Active, and the musical mid-range and sweetness of my old Transparent cables but with a sound field that is ADDICTIVE. To put it simply these cables sound like no other cables I have ever heard and I have auditioned many cables over the years. I have since upgraded my Accelerator speaker cables to Precision Reference and I am going to try Apex interconnect and Precision Reference interconnects as I feel these cables represent audio nirvana. I have just never heard cables that present such seemingly opposing strengths and do so with state-of-the-art performance. Warmth, detail, speed, bloom, pinpoint imaging, natural harmonic structure, musicality, and an amazing holographic presence like no other. Your results may vary (but I doubt it) however one thing is certain. Before you plunk down your hard won cash on expensive cables you must listen to them in your system first, and for at least one weeks time to let them settle in, and Synergistic Research Tesla Series should be on your short list. Then let your ears decide. BTW if your dealer will not loan cables for you to try perhaps there is a reason.

Transparant cable
Yesterday morning I called Wilson Audio and asked which cables would they recommend for my setup. I was kindly informed by a gentelman ''it is not a secret that we use Transparant cables (reference)for internal wiring of wilson speakers. I was shocked and didn't want to hear rest of the story because I could guess the reason why they use network cables: they emphasize particularly on midbass and high frequency in trade of low bass. This was answer of two strange things.(at least for me) First: I was trying to find out how possible''old sock'' focal inverted titanium drivers sound so good,effortless, smooth...these values are not new to me since I am used to Focal be drivers. Second: Wilson Audio make show demos with underpowered, ordinary amplifiers.
As all we know network cables have ability to play music how they are ''fine tuned'' by their dedicated crossovers.(big ugly box, sometimes black, sometimes white)
One of my friend has transparant cables and Wilson Maxx2. I asked him why he uses tranparant cable. He said transparant corrects Wilson's some characteristic faults. He was ''wrong''. Not the transparant corrects faults, but any cable which has anyhow a particular character forces wilsons play ''incorrect'' in my opinion.