High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz

There are 3 matters on the table.

1. Sound quality. This is not a competition between my cables and HF cables. Magnetic cables perform very well when the configuration is right. You can make your own magnetic cables that may surprise you.

2. Price. The price of some cables is in the stratosphere. If you can afford the price then go for them. But there may be attractive alternatives -- for a small fraction of the cost of high-priced cables.

3. Marketing. IMO, there are suspect things going on in this thread that I and others have observed. I believe I have made my point very clearly.

@sabai what does it matter to you. 1) I blog because I'm blown away by the product. 2) The sound quality is better than I have ever heard and I've heard about 25 other brands and I've heard some of the ultra expensive brands that cost way more than the high fidelity stuff 3) price the really good equipment in this hobby will 90% of the time cost more. 4) The others on this blog could have legitimate concerns or as I suspect sometimes could be working for other companies themselves or have affiliations with those companies. One more thing that I put in my previous post. I have open the doors to where I live to hear them. I'm not doing it for anybody's sake but for those who want to hear them and decide if they like them. You're not going to listen cause your decision has already been made. But to anyone else contact me come listen decide for yourself. I don't sell them. If I moved a pair I've done so to move up to the next level I the chain. Look you can continue to be analytical but my analytics tell me to actually listen before I can analyze. I've watched folks come along in this hobby or other industries and do things to stop things for various reasons. I don't care who is doing what for what reason. If you want to hear the high fidelity stuff it's in my system I welcome you to come listen. I bought a CD player that I couldn't hear about 3 years ago and it was an expensive lesson on why I should try to talk to people who have listened to a product before they buy it. That's exactly why I'm letting people who want to have a session can come listen to my arc3, my revels, my cables and my dac so they can decide if the gear is something they would like. Easy way to settle your dilemma or anyone else reading the thread.1) If you are anywhere near dallas message me come hear for yourself 2) the cable company does demos of this product and hundreds of others call them try whatever you want. 3) Be careful with those who say they are concerned about marketing because the could be actually doing anti-marketing themselves. I don't know if that's what's happening but my eyes are open to all possibilities I'm just saying. Signing off on this issue. Must really be important for those to stay on the same tired argument. Ask yourself why they thinks it's important enough. Audiophiles trust nothing but YOUR OWN ears. Hearing is believing. Notice how a person comments and still haven't said they heard them or planning to try to hear them. There is no way that I let anyone tell me anything that they haven't actually experienced whether it's audio or life. I can't hear you cause you haven't heard what you are have giving everybody else advice on.

Correction. You haven't heard what you are giving everybody else advice on. For those who hear a cable or brand that you like comment as much as you want. Some people will say way that person really likes that piece of equipment and others might question why you like it so much but remember most of those commenting will never hear your system ever at all so if it makes you happy keep doing it. It's your system. It's your money. Its your happiness. I wish people would stop trying to tell others how much or how many times they can say they like something. However, I don't expect that to happen because I can't tell another man what to do or say about what he paid for or how much he should or should not pay. I can't tell he or she what he should or shouldn't like. I've said way too much already. I should no better than to even go there. I'm far away from the music talking to people I will never meet trying to tell everybody what they should or shouldn't say. I should know better

Sabai, why do you care? Do you have a badge to prove you are among the scam police?

I've came to houston for a while and while I'm here I decided to let a fellow audiophile keep my high fidelity ultimates for 2 weeks he uses an integrated and a different set of speakers than I have and he is completely blown way by the performance he is getting. True audiophiles should be helping each other like this. That same person loaned me his integrated a few months ago to let me try it in my system. That's what this is about helping each other hear as such as you can so when you do purchase you are happy. I have been invited by many on this forum to listen to thier systems and in the new year I'm going to take them up on it. I want to see what equipment they use and if they have high fidelity is it working for them. I will also be going back to listen to the raidhos again with the levinson 585 soon. It's a dac plus integrated. The person uses other cables either tara labs or ansuz. It will be an interesting listen. I'm glad that there are some folks who share their systems and let the other audiophiles try it. It allows you to educate yourself in a non-show environment. It allowed me to hear the best of the best and even if I can't afford the super expensive gear I can find a way to get some less expensive things that cost a price I'm willing to pay and get close to reference performance. Happy listening everyone. I will post my impressions after I go back to listen to a couple of those systems.