High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz

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.

Calvinj..if you ever get to Virginia you are more than welcome to come visit and listen to my system..Everyone have a great New Year...!!!

Hi, Folks: I finally reached the end of this interminably long thread and wanted to throw in my own experiences with the HF Cables. For full disclosure: I have been on the Gon for about 13 years, contributed to and started many threads, bought and sold a lot of equipment and music (I have 10,000 LP's). I am a self-employed independent sales engineer selling components and assemblies to the medical device industry and have no affiliation whatsoever to HFC or any other audio manufacturer. You can go on Audioasylum under the name rlawry to see my system. Glad to get that out of the way.

I have a good, long-time friend who uses the name Powder 1 that has had many of the same equipment pieces as myself, including Essence and Intuitive Design gear. When he contacted me a year or so ago and recommended I try the HF Cables I looked at the prices and decided to hold off. I have had some very expensive and well-regarded cables in the past and always found them to make a difference but not on the same level as that from changing components, i.e. it required paying a lot of money for what I felt were relatively small sonic changes. My most recent cables used carbon bybee filters and I had them for some time.

So a month or so ago I finally I took the plunge and bought a used pair of entry-level CT-1 cables between my turntable and phono stage. I have a Lyra Titan I cartridge that outputs 0.5 mV and the DIN connector terminates in a pair of RCA outputs. Let me say that the cables were a miserable failure and I heard one weak channel of music, thinking that something had gone wrong with my system elsewhere, but it turned out to be the HF cables. Apparently their resistance is too high for these very weak signals.

Using them between my phono stage and preamp was an entirely different matter. I would term it as no exaggeration to say that it was the biggest change I have heard in 40 years in audio. I don't know if I need to reiterate what so many other posters here have described, but that my system had a whole new level of realism, immediacy, and speed. Adding another CT-1 between my preamp and power amp and a pair of CT-1 speaker cables added to this astounding effect, at least in my system. It is amazing to hear my system from a cold start transform from a small, flat, involving sound into one with the type of dimensionality I am hearing. I plan to move up the line and am currently taking bids for my gold fillings.

So you can slam me for paying ridiculous prices for these and I don't really care. I don't have time to research, design, and build my own cables as I finally did with my single-driver speakers, but perhaps one day I will when I pay off my mortgage and my remaining 2 boys (I have 4) complete college. Maybe then I will ask them for a loan.

Hope everyone is enjoying their music. It is going to take me a long time to re-listen to my 10,000 LP's but it will be fun.