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Purist Audio Design - Dominus Interconnect Cable

Hi,

Not to downgrade the efforts of cable designers, for me cable industry is the least technical demanding one among the audio equipment manufacture field but the price tags grow exponentially in the past decade. I can pay for technologies like amorphous metal alloys from Stealth or the battery-biased designs of Audioquest. But Purist Audio Design provides inadequate information to convince me to make the purchase. Even their most advanced technology years ago – The Radiant Light Source (RLS), they did not explain the source of the designed illuminating light.

So help me here. How to justify the over $5,000 price tag of Dominus interconnect cable at 1-mter length.

Thanks and Happy Listening!

Otto
yu11375
rlwainwright
1,904 posts
 
There *is* no justification from dropping 5 large on an interconnect cable. C'mon, think about it, you slap this uber-expensive cable between a source and the preamp and then the little bitty wires in the preamp pick up the signal and do their part to transfer it through the various stages in the preamp and then out to the power amp.

Until, and if, the wiring in the preamp is upgraded to "magic wire" status, installing a $5k interconnect is simply a fool's game. IMHO, of course...

-RW-
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
If you can justify $5000 shirt or $30,000 dress, almost same could be applied to cables. Dude, I love $900pr of Prada shoes while many would stay OK for $75 Hush Puppies! At the same time comfortable and nice looking wear can be acquired at least by dropping 2 trailing zeros, so that figures for wires too. The fancy ones are created only for fassion and extraordinary looks on your system, not for performance.
yu11375 OP
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RW, you are right. I am totally with you.

If all these magic cables are superior to the internal wire of pre-amplifier or amplifier, why pre-amplifier or amplifier designers don't upgrade the internal wire to these magic cables?

I have a friend who works in the luxury goods / fashion industry. One time he was in the high ranked position at PRADA. He admits that people do pay a LOT for visual pleasure and touching enjoyment and people are willing to pay that much for their psychological satisfaction.

I pay a lot for my audio equipment to enhance my listening delight. The EDGE amplifier and Counterpoint SA-11 pre-amplifier I possess, they all have high price tags. Also I was one of the earlier Beta testers of Stealth’s cable more than 10 years ago. But I just can not justify myself to pay for the super expensive cables from Purist Audio Design. By the information Purist Audio Design provided, the Dominus cable is cryoed and stranded multi-gauge alloy in 18 AWG with special shielding. 18 AWG! My current cable is pure 6N silver in 16AWG at much realistic price. By my calculation, the cross section of 16AWG cable is more than 2.5 times of the cross section of 18AWG cable, what kind of technology can surpass these fundamental differences in Physics? Until more detail information is provided, I am still in the non-believer camp.
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