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Whatever happened to Straight Wire?

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It seems like Straight Wire is moving towards obscurity.For the past 10 years i haven't heard anything about any new products (Crescendo cable came out over 10 years ago and i rewired my system with it),they do not advertise and i haven't seen their cables on display in any high end stores around NY area.I hope everything is well with the company because it was their Crescendo cables that gave me a decade of sonic bliss.
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samzx12
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Their Crescendo's are great wire.
schipo
1,268 posts
 
Can anyone please tell me what new innovation in cable technology is or does it really exist? I believe no cable is the best technolgy, but until then I have to say wire is going to be just that wire. Now I know I am really going to get it with this statement?
mrtennis
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the use of expensive wires is a very recent phenomenon. i have a pair of pear audio anjou interconnect cables. i believe this cable represents an innovative cable design. it is an all gold-wire cable.

another metal that is interesting is platinum.
guidocorona
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What are the interesting characteristics of Platinum?
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elberoth2
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Funny thing that you mention gold as a conductor. A few (10+) years back Siltech used to play with gold conductors. At one point they offered the same cable with diff count of gold wires - FTM-4Si which was pure silver, FTM-4Sg which used one single golden wire, and FTM-4Su which ATAIR used 4 golden wires (the rest was silver). Me and all my audio buddies who have heard them, all prefered the least expensive, all-silver version. Siltech quite soon abandoned that technology.
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