Did anyone hear the Cardas "Clear Beyond"...

Since my original slightly impertinent post, I actually heard the Clear ICs and Clear Beyond SCs connecting a VTL 7.5 to Siegfrieds pushing X2s.

The cables were "clearly" in the same league as the fine components to which they were connected but represent a significant departure from the Cardas house sound. That pleased my ears but I'm sure others will prefer the midbass richness and upper midrange presence of Cardas GR or Cardas GC.

I had long given up on Cardas , my first cable love, but reconciliation may be at hand.

Khrys, how would you describe the non house Cardas sound you heard?

VTLs and X2s? Nice.....

JOULE-ELTRA Marianne Electra Memorial Preamp, LA-100ME debuted in this room yet no one even mentioned this and the question is ...how cables sounded? May be 99% improvment was result of two or three years of Jud Barber work (and lately Simon Thacher formerly from Spectron) and not these wires??? (may be 50/50, may be 90/10 - but discard flagship of highly respectable designer as it did not existed....Brrrrrrrrrr )

Gary Westside-music - if you are Joule dealer may be you have more details?

Rafael

Khrys.... did you happen to hear or not hear the "Clears" at Brooks Berdan's?

I'm sorry to say but if you are using the "right" cable for your system (that matches well with your gear), a $2,000 speaker cable won't be inferior to the stratospheric priced ones (> $8,000). People, you should bear in mind that gear is about 85% of the sound, while cables (and tweaks) are only responsible for 15%.
With other words: You should not think that by buying $10,000 speaker cable your gear is going to sound much better.

Chris