VenHaus Pulsar™ interconnects
I'm impressed with the Pulsars. They look simple and elegant and flexible. The quality is there and I prefer the connectors over the locking metal ones. Nice and snug and no messing around with tightening them. I will not rehash what has already been said and I am completely satisfied with the Pulsars. |
I'd be curious to see what Driver thinks of these cables now that he's probably had them a while. Personally, i think that they are a great buy. You can read some of my further comments here as posted over at AA's Cable Asylum. As i've mentioned before, my thoughts are that interconnects are more system dependent than speaker cables. As such, results and opinions are bound to vary. If they didn't, the item being discussed must be the best that money can buy : ) Sean > |
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Hi Sean-well, a few things have changed in the system, most notably I went back to an active balanced pre (kept the Ayre), so put the passive away. I just hooked up the Pulsar's in addition to the XLR's & listened on another input w/o having to disconnect anything, although I have plans for the Pulsar's in the not too distant future. Offhand I would say the Pulsar's compare very favorably with my Silver Ref cables that cost almost 5 times the amount and the biggest difference I hear might be due to the balanced circuitry utilized by the Silver Refs. I didn't perform long term listening tests but started out going back & forth with a few songs from different CD's then played the entire CD. The Silver Ref had a tad bit more imaging precision & slightly bigger soundstage, along with somewhat better bass response but I've done this before with other SE vs. XLR cables & the XLR always win, as I'm running a fully balanced system. I have done the XLR/SE comparison with the exact same cables, so I'm confident in the systems ability in regards to its balanced operation vs. SE. When I had the Pulsar's hooked to the passive, it was a different sound, as I not only changed both sets of IC's but the pre itself, so I couldn't really ascertain where the biggest change came from. As for deciding on keeping a cable, if I like it, I'll use it somewhere & I'm definitely keeping the Pulsar's. My future projects include a TT I'm rebuilding, which should be ready by the end of the summer & there's also a DAC in the future, so the Pulsar's will either go the way of the phono or digital link. As for the Pulsar itself, it has a very good over all balanced characteristic, which is smooth yet detailed in the upper freqs/mids. It is a well made & good sounding IC & reaching back into my memory, it has the smoothness of the Truthlink, which I really liked, except the Truthlink was rolled off on top, whereas the Pulsar is not rolled off at all. I've found cables that are smooth on top usually sacrifice the extension & conversely, those that have the extension tend to be brighter, which incidentally, I can't take. The Pulsar strikes a very good balance here & I feel like they could do well in a variety of applications. With the extreme top end smoothness, the nod goes to the Pulsar over the Silver Ref & I can only guess it's because of my long term bias against silver in favor of copper, although the Silver Ref. is the only Silver cable I've owned that has stayed in my system for more than a month. When you factor in the price, the Pulsar becomes an even better deal. |
