Calvinj, I understand your thirst for warm, textured, rich and organic sound. But I must say that I have found the HFCables to have cut off the road back to this. I have often had all tube electronic and often only horn speaker systems with SET amps. In conjunction with the Tripoint Troy Signature, I find the HFCables make tube electronic too lacking in resolution and slow to work well with the sound I can get with solid state electronics to be satisfying.
I think one can have a very musical system that can make you sit back and enjoy the music or you can have a system that makes you feel you are present when and where the music was recorded. The latter is what you get with the HFC and perhaps gives you the sound that you would get were you the microphones, and the former is what you might hear were you in row N at the symphony but which lacked much ambience and much of the high end as the audience was absorbing this information. Since I love to hear many jazz performances where the artist is dead, I relish the HFC sound. I want realism not just good sounding music.
I think one can have a very musical system that can make you sit back and enjoy the music or you can have a system that makes you feel you are present when and where the music was recorded. The latter is what you get with the HFC and perhaps gives you the sound that you would get were you the microphones, and the former is what you might hear were you in row N at the symphony but which lacked much ambience and much of the high end as the audience was absorbing this information. Since I love to hear many jazz performances where the artist is dead, I relish the HFC sound. I want realism not just good sounding music.