Cables with the best highs

If your gear is sensitive to the cable, one with too much inductance will roll-off your highs. A cable with too much capacitance can cause overshoot or ringing in the high frequencies which can be perceived as more detail, to some. Now if your amp is nice and "robust" it can handle too much inductance and/or capacitance without a problem (up to a certain limit of course.)

Hi Albertporter. I'll give you a couple of suggestions. I know you'll get a lot of replies. I don't know what is the best in your system for you but two cables that come to mind are the acoustic zen satori[ which I own]. It replaced nordost red dawn as I was trying to get away from "ultra detailed" highs in my system. The nordost allowed too much "zip" on the fast newform ribbons. I was looking for more timbre fullness...also, I very much like a siltech Generation 3 cable I've heard on martin logans with moon gear and arcam 9 and 23 cd players...It is blue[I don't remember the model number} but it has lovely ease to its highs...I'm sure there are many more great cables. It is impossible to hear everthing. We must buy a lot of cables to keep everyone in business, eh? Good luck. Cheers, Bluenose

I goofed. My reply should have been to BWhite, not Albertporter. See what happens when I haven't had my monring coffee? Sorry Albert....regards, Bluenose

My advise is to borrow as many cables as possible. The results are very system dependant.

I would secound the vote for Purist, I played with a pair of Dominuis for a week and found then to be extremely detailed and transparent but at the same time very smooth. My present reference, FIM Gold were only slightly less detailed but that was really the only difference. Both cables have similiar tonal qualities and no coloration. So Purist, FIM would be two to look at if your in that price range.