Good Copper IC's for 2.5M RCA pre to amp?


I am looking for a 2.5 to 3M RCA terminated interconnect to replace Purist Venustas cables from my preamp to amp. Prefer something a little richer sounding than the Venustas, even if it means sacrificing a little of the Venustas' detail. Would like to get out of it with a used cable in the same general price range as what I can sell my cables for used. Are the Gregg Straley Reality Cables a real contender here, or not in the same league? How about their speaker cables to replace Venustas? Any others? Thanks.
mitch2

Mitch2

Art Dudley wrote a pretty good (accurate) review of the SX Ltd. some time back in Stereophile, comparing and contrasting them to Nordost's Valhalla.

Bruce Richardson of Voodoo cables makes an Ultralinear cable comprised of both copper & silver and it was also on the top end of my short list prior to me settling on the Res Ref x2... back then. Since however, the SR Acoustic Ref active in their tesla series does edge out the Res ref near entirely save for the bass impact and more weighty feel the RR's provide. The SR AR do offer a tad more resolution and near the bass of the RES REFs... and come across very naturally. Some say more analog like, but on that point I'd have to pass as I've no analog gear.

The SX's lay somewhere in between the SR AR & SR RR but are more naturall than either of the SR wires. With a high res system, the SX + either AR or RR will indeed satisfy... duller systems might not respond as well... for ex. SET like sounding gear whose fingerprint is way lush, perhaps... and that's just speculation on my part given the way they handle sonics.

With the SX in there somewhere (it's usual place is on a source but I've found it works well as a main too), re-creation of the original venue is clearly evident, as well as is a more organic presentation.

One last note on the SX Ltd. is they reject EMI & RF well indeed for SE cables and act more like XLRs in that respect. they're quite clean sounding and without air flowing radiations or artifacts... and I'm using my SX as a main IC.
Thanks again Blindjim - you have given me several to look at.

Bill, I agree with you and have noticed no sonic difference between my 1M ic's from preamp to amp, and the 2.5 to 3M ic's I am currently using.

BTW, I meant to say above,
"virtually none of the tube preamps I have liked have BALANCED outputs."
Try KS Emotion or Jorma Design No1 and if you could stretch to Jorma Prime you would be amazed.
Kimber Select 1011 is rich in spades, I find 1 run is perfect and 2 is too much.