So YOU can't hear a difference in cables

Well, it looks like we have found new and useful "adjectives" to describe our speaker cables. My XLO Signature Shotguns sound like Rosemary Clooney, the brassy, yet soft, younger Rosemary Clooney. Beats the heck out of yin and yang as adjectives IME.

The Poeima! sounds like a stuck up kangaroo? Definitely bring that over, Dean. I'd like to play with her...

The above suggestion of Lat International probably comes close to Marilyn Monroe. I find it's characteristic to be fluffy/airy with a marshmellowy mid. Too mellowy for my ears as it kind of robs some details in the highs.

I personally owned many great Stereophile rated CD players including the CAL trans/dac, a B rated unit, and the NAD 502, a C rated unit. Both sounds better than the Sony 333 though.

And what is that Monster filter crap. Take the damn thing out. I am so sick of Monster...

BTW, I think my OTAs sounds as clean as Milla Jovovich's body.

Yioryos, I think I'd like to be whipped by Marilyn too. :•)

The Audience AU24 would hurt really good because they are so damn skinny, but maybe the Cardas Golden Cross with its nice layer of womanly fat would have the effect George is talking about.

I lent Marilyn to Viggen for a couple months and he used her in ways no other man ever dreamed of. Who ever thought Marilyn would be able to swing that tush as a digital cable?

I like Latin and Mediterranean women myself, so which cable would you gentlemen suggest? I'm currently using Acoustic Zen and Audience. I suspect the AZ Silver Reference II is more Grace Kelly, and the AZ Matrix Ref II is a bit Sophia Loren, so using them together I'd end up with something like Isabella Rosellini. Which ain't bad at all! When I sit down for a listen every night I always greet my digital cable as if I were addressing Rita Hayworth. It makes her very happy and helps her to sing like an angel and dance like a temptress.

I proclaim, that from this day forth all audio equipment should be reviewed and described as women in show business, past and present!

Wellfed, I hope you're talking about the YOUNG Rosemarie Clooney! The stock tubes in my Blue Circle preamp reminded me of a young Phyllis Diller.

My apologies to Zilla and all. He did not ask for an opinion of his digital setup, however, that's where I think he may be getting the digital glare that he is trying to fix with cables (but what do I know).

Anyway, sorry I got so spun up. When I saw the disproportionate amount that Zilla spent on Amp and Speakers vs. the digital rig AND he defended it, I figured he was part of the "bits are bits" crowd.

I should have stuck with my response to the "fidelity" post from later in the day.

"If it makes you happy, don't worry about it".

Enjoy,

TIC

Gunbei writes

...I hope you're talking about the YOUNG Rosemarie Clooney! The stock tubes in my Blue Circle preamp reminded me of a young Phyllis Diller.

Oh I was VERY careful to liken them to the young Rosemary Clooney. They are "hot" cables after all.