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Why don't gold based cable fans try Synergistic

I am looking to try new cables and have been reading the archives in cable forums on all the great cable recommendations. I'm trying to get a handle on how the Synergistic Tesla range that I once owned compare to the gold based cable offerings.

However for some strange reason hardly any of the members here who seem to have tried the various gold based faves (Gabriel Gold, Jade, KCI, Purist and others) have not been tempted to try the popular Synergistic cables and not much here in the way of comparisons. I am not sure why but there seems to be two camps.

Anyways hoping to get a comparison as I had the Tesla Accelerators in my system for a short while and wonder if the gold based cables have the same naturalness, depth of soundstage, air and separation of the Teslas. I should add that as good as the Accelerators were sound wise I did not like the idea of introducing more electricity into my system with the active shielding hence looking for comparable alternatives.
frankk
tbg
5,263 posts
 
I doubt it.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
eaach metal in its pure form--either copper or silver or gold, have their own sonic signature. notice i have excluded alloys and mixed metal construction.

i suspect that each of us prefers one of the three metals in a particular application and so would prefer that metal to the teslas.

or, more obviously, people prefer different cables because of complementary or reinforcing colorations.

those who say that they don't want any coloration in their systems should realize that since all components are imperfect, coloration can be minimized but not eliminated.

each of us tries to find a way to satisfy our idiosyncratic preferences.
sabai
2,027 posts
 
I would be glad to hear from anyone using PCs and ICs in series.

I now have 2 PCs in series -- the GG Reflection into the Tesla Plex SE -- on the other end Cryo-Schutered into the SR PR into the SR PowerCell SE with Galileo MPC. I also have 3 XLR ICs in series -- Supra Sword into the EMM CDSA SE -- on the other end into GG Reflection then into SR Acoustic Reference with standard MPC.

The cumulative synergy of all this is quite amazing -- holographic and producing the best qualities that GG, SR and Supra can bring to a system -- all combined in one. Surprisingly, what really opened everything up were the Supras -- the least expensive of these cables.

I have found that you can have the best of more than one sonic world by experimenting with cables in series. When I take out one cable the whole sound scape collapses. My SCs are GG Reflection. I will be adding SR Galileo universal speaker cells later this year.
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