Hirsch,
I love this statement "There was no thought of tweaking this system anymore". More than anything esle that parrallels my experience with these cables. Since I bought mine I quit looking for amplifiers, sources or anything else. Buy more CD's is my motto (I already have 1,200 but there's always room for more). I will be buyng an SACD player though. I can't wait until the day I can finish my sytem out with the Nite speaker cables.
Your break in was a little slower and more dramatic than mine. Once, after upgradiong the power cables and the first time I used their interconnects, the sound was so bad I called Rick to complain that my interconnect sounded so awful that I could only imagine that it was busted. I couldn't figure out why my system got worse just after addding the new power cable and the interconnect. My cables had been burned in so I was expecting them to be ready to go but from what I was hearing I could only assume mine was defective. Rick said not to worry and after that we got into a fairly lengthy conversation about the cables and a million other audio related issues. Also, during that conversation he told me the cables were directional and that the direction was the same as the direction that they ran a voltage through them during the burn in period. They are supposed to be marked for direction now but in those days they were not. In fact, in those days, (only a few months back) the Nites were still pretty new, the Speed of Light Tech was extremly new and the burn in system was still new. It turned out that my cables were installed in the right direction so I never changed them but during the conversation with Rick I thought this might be part of the problem.
Anyhow, after talking with Rick for about an hour I planned to leave my system run for the rest of the night and the following day while I was at work and then give it another listen but as I passed through he room where the stereo was I was shccked at how much my system had improved in the time I had talked with Rick on the phone. It was unbelievable! It was now on the bright side and the images were so big it was as if your stereo system was looking down at you from the ceiling and singing to you. It was fun but it was weird. This affect settled out over the rest of the night (about two hours) and when it was over the soundstage was still huge compared to how it had been before I started using any of the VD cables but everything was right and sounded very realistic.
I should say one thing agin and that is the Nites were a huge leap forward from even the other VD products but one thing I love about all of the VD stuff is the dramatic increase in dynamics. Where all that power and punch comes from I have no idea but it is significant.
Also, my amps used to run so hot that I twice had the pre-amp cut out on the thermal breaker but now with the VD cable it runs so cool you can't imagine that they ever got hot at all.
Anyhow, congratulations Hirsch.
Have you got your main speaker system all outfitted in VD stuff, yet? If not, grab your wallet, because I think the VD cable is more impressive on a speaker based system than it could ever be with headphones. I think both Dark Angel and John Acton have said the same thing.
And, just think, with a speaker based system you get to buy speakers cables, too. Oooh!
Best
Brian
I love this statement "There was no thought of tweaking this system anymore". More than anything esle that parrallels my experience with these cables. Since I bought mine I quit looking for amplifiers, sources or anything else. Buy more CD's is my motto (I already have 1,200 but there's always room for more). I will be buyng an SACD player though. I can't wait until the day I can finish my sytem out with the Nite speaker cables.
Your break in was a little slower and more dramatic than mine. Once, after upgradiong the power cables and the first time I used their interconnects, the sound was so bad I called Rick to complain that my interconnect sounded so awful that I could only imagine that it was busted. I couldn't figure out why my system got worse just after addding the new power cable and the interconnect. My cables had been burned in so I was expecting them to be ready to go but from what I was hearing I could only assume mine was defective. Rick said not to worry and after that we got into a fairly lengthy conversation about the cables and a million other audio related issues. Also, during that conversation he told me the cables were directional and that the direction was the same as the direction that they ran a voltage through them during the burn in period. They are supposed to be marked for direction now but in those days they were not. In fact, in those days, (only a few months back) the Nites were still pretty new, the Speed of Light Tech was extremly new and the burn in system was still new. It turned out that my cables were installed in the right direction so I never changed them but during the conversation with Rick I thought this might be part of the problem.
Anyhow, after talking with Rick for about an hour I planned to leave my system run for the rest of the night and the following day while I was at work and then give it another listen but as I passed through he room where the stereo was I was shccked at how much my system had improved in the time I had talked with Rick on the phone. It was unbelievable! It was now on the bright side and the images were so big it was as if your stereo system was looking down at you from the ceiling and singing to you. It was fun but it was weird. This affect settled out over the rest of the night (about two hours) and when it was over the soundstage was still huge compared to how it had been before I started using any of the VD cables but everything was right and sounded very realistic.
I should say one thing agin and that is the Nites were a huge leap forward from even the other VD products but one thing I love about all of the VD stuff is the dramatic increase in dynamics. Where all that power and punch comes from I have no idea but it is significant.
Also, my amps used to run so hot that I twice had the pre-amp cut out on the thermal breaker but now with the VD cable it runs so cool you can't imagine that they ever got hot at all.
Anyhow, congratulations Hirsch.
Have you got your main speaker system all outfitted in VD stuff, yet? If not, grab your wallet, because I think the VD cable is more impressive on a speaker based system than it could ever be with headphones. I think both Dark Angel and John Acton have said the same thing.
And, just think, with a speaker based system you get to buy speakers cables, too. Oooh!
Best
Brian
, I know-- who was waiting for this), the fact that I will be soon auditioning/reviewing/comparing my Melos Audio Restoration upgraded SHA-Gold/Maestro against a Melos SHA-1 upgraded to the hilt by our own "carlos". carlos believes his upgraded SHA-1 should compete with my MAR upgraded Gold/Maestro.
