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Clear Day Cables Speaker Cables

I know there have been some threads/discussion on Clear Day cables here, but I wanted to write my own opinions since I recently purchased a pair of their double shotgun cables after trying their regular shotgun cables for free.
I am so happy that I took Paul (Laudati, the owner) up on his offer to send me a pair to try for free. Until I heard these cables I had no idea what a huge difference a speaker cable can make. And the prices for his cables are really reasonable as well.
The double shotgun wires simply shine. The depth of the soundstage is amazing. The bass is so clear and defined and also deep and rich. Treble is also clear and detailed without any harshness. The mid-range retains a bit of congestion, but my cables are only a few days old and have only around 40 hours on them. Paul tells me it will take a few weeks for them to relax and open up. Based on my experiences with the standard shotguns, which were already broken in when I got them, I have no doubt this is the case.
As you can tell I am not much of a reviewer, but I hope if nothing else that I have made folks aware of this great speaker cable option. They are so awesome I want to tell everyone I know about them. I'm so glad I found them because of the countless hundreds of dollars spent on other cables that had nowhere near the impact that these have on the sound. Paul sends demo pairs out for free fully knowing that most folks will want to keep them once they have heard them. Not many companies do this. I wonder why?
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wig
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Definitely a great cable! Clarity Cable was the only cable to surpass it...
facten
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Wig in what way(s)?
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wig
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For the price, Clear Day very good but Clarity speaker cables have more body, fuller sounding, better bass, and a larger soundstage.
audiotunesx
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I have had a set of Clear Day Double Shotgun cables for about a year now. They replaced vastly more expensive Purist Audio cables that I was borrowing at the time. I do not know if the 30ft length of the PAD cables reduced it's performance, but A/B against the Clear Day cables was suprising. The PAD cables had a great mid-range and excellent bass, but lacked top end detail. The Clear Day cables are more neutral from top to bottom. The bass on my Magnepan 1.7's seemed to extend lower, and the top end revealed all the little details I had been missing. Overall, the sound was more musical, very similar to my Synergistic Tesla interconnects in terms of sound. I was worried that silver cables would be sharp and edgy, but that is not the case with Clear Day cables. They are smooth at the top and extremely transparent. I was worried about bass output because of cable size. But compared to 10AWG PAD cables I actually got more extended bass that really benefited the Magnepan's. Thanks to these cables I saved hundreds of dollars that I put into power conditioning. I strongly recommend these cables and do not believe any speaker cable sold at this price can compete. Also, Paul is a pleasure to deal with! Try a pair, it's hard to go wrong at this price point.
mcondon
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I also agree that Clear Day Double Shotguns are really world class speaker cables, regardless of price.

I replaced a pair of Gabriel Gold Rapture speaker cables that cost me $1,200 used (the ones that everyone gushes about in another thread) with Clear Day Double Shotguns. It was no contest.

I have also demo'd a pretty wide range of speaker cables in the last few years -- mostly from the Cable Company's lending library -- and the Clear Day Double Shotguns were never surpassed. Some speaker cables I have tried deliver a lot of bass, but often sound slow and seem to close in the mid-range and treble, in order to deliberately emphasize bass frequencies. Others have a wide open top-end, but have MIA bass quantity/quality.

What I hear through the Clear Day Double Shotguns is really wide, open, but non-fatiguing top-end and mid-range, which most really good speaker cables can also deliver. What the Clear Days do better than the other speaker cables I have tried is bass. There is just a lot more wallop, for lack of a better word, like my speakers' frequency response extends about 5-10Hz lower. That combination is pretty unusual in speaker cables.

I honestly don't think that the Clear Day cables are just good "budget" speaker cables. They just happen to be inexpensive and (honestly) pretty dramatically underpriced relative to the competition.
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