So, after a few auditions, and after owning Audience 24 and High Fidelity CT-1e ICs, I have come to the conclusion that Audience cables provide the best VFM. I will be upgrading my signal cables to 24SE (already have the speaker, and ICs are just 24, not SE). They also have Low, Medium, and High power cords for digital, pre, and power which I have not demoed.
Generally the cost in GBP seems to be around 400 for signal and power cords, 650 for speaker.
The Tara Labs is my favorite power cord so far, but I was lucky to get one used at a good price (retail over $5k), the price used usually is around 1500 (GG once tried to help me get one at 1200, though the other guy didn't drop his price - thanks for that, GG, as a return favor, here is a tip from me...try the Lampi and the mooks :music
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So, I managed to source one Tara recently and it makes a big positive difference. But am not planning to get more now, too expensive. I will get the Audience.
Also the main characteristic of Audience is that they are very transparent, natural, neutral, fast, etc. Once you listen to the Audience, other cables will sound colored. Even without comparing, my first reaction on listening to the Audience was that this is natural. I have demoed Kubala Elation, Zensati uber-expensives, Audioquest K2, Crystal, Siltech Ruby Crown (retail 20k) and others before, they all do something to the sound.
My recommendation is, unless someone has a lot of dough to get the 20k retail cords which sell for 4k used (Jorma Prime, Tara Grandmaster, Siltech Ruby Crown which are all known to trump Odin), try Audience 24 or even better 24SEs used in the medium range.
If it helps, I also tried the Shun Mook interconnect and power cable but didn't like those. However one guy said he prefers them to his 18k Tara
Generally the cost in GBP seems to be around 400 for signal and power cords, 650 for speaker.
The Tara Labs is my favorite power cord so far, but I was lucky to get one used at a good price (retail over $5k), the price used usually is around 1500 (GG once tried to help me get one at 1200, though the other guy didn't drop his price - thanks for that, GG, as a return favor, here is a tip from me...try the Lampi and the mooks :music
. So, I managed to source one Tara recently and it makes a big positive difference. But am not planning to get more now, too expensive. I will get the Audience.
Also the main characteristic of Audience is that they are very transparent, natural, neutral, fast, etc. Once you listen to the Audience, other cables will sound colored. Even without comparing, my first reaction on listening to the Audience was that this is natural. I have demoed Kubala Elation, Zensati uber-expensives, Audioquest K2, Crystal, Siltech Ruby Crown (retail 20k) and others before, they all do something to the sound.
My recommendation is, unless someone has a lot of dough to get the 20k retail cords which sell for 4k used (Jorma Prime, Tara Grandmaster, Siltech Ruby Crown which are all known to trump Odin), try Audience 24 or even better 24SEs used in the medium range.
If it helps, I also tried the Shun Mook interconnect and power cable but didn't like those. However one guy said he prefers them to his 18k Tara
