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wnat to downgrade my cables

I feel like I have too much $$ in my cabling considering the price of my system. Have all Yamamura M5000 and would rather have the $1000+ I would get used to put towards an amp upgrade and lesser cables. I like the warm sound of the yams. my system is:
Cary CD-308
Cary SLI-80
MM deCapo speakers

Thanks
stuartbranson
viggen
838 posts
 
I just want to toss Bogdan cables into the foray. Audioasylum has a pretty good following on these if you want to read up on them.
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dekay
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Stuart:

Don't really know your price range, but I have used 47 Labs OTA speaker cable and IC's with two SET based systems.

I downgraded from an Audion 300B SET amp to Bottlehead kit SET amps and their preamp, but kept the OTA cable.

It has worked well with all of my gear (vintage Pilot 232 6bq5 push/pull amp, vintage SE 6bq5 amps, etc.).

The cable kit runs $600 and will make up 3 pairs of IC's plus speaker cable (50 meters of cable is supplied).
stuartbranson OP
183 posts
 
Well my price range has changed. I started this looking for a $200 cable(used) that would replace the $450-500 Yamamuras (used). I was hopeful that someone would know my gear or the type of sound I would like and give me some avenues for research. I've gotten many ideas but after my latest experiments(YamM5000,SonoranDesert/XLO pro1200) I admit that I am leery of dropping the $200 because I realize that my expectations were, likely, unrealistic. I know there's alot of overpriced cables but some are expensive AND good and some are moderate and good. I'm starting to wonder about the cheap and good. So maybe my budget is going back up to the $600(used) mark because it'll be worth it if I hear what I know is there.
viggen
838 posts
 
Oh yah, duh... I just switched to 47 Labs' OTA cables. I second Dave's recommendation. Then again, Bogdan uses a 300B amp as reference when making his cables too.
stuartbranson OP
183 posts
 
Ouch! You slay me.
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