note this is my first cable upgrade, but got rather excited about it this evening

so i upgraded two weeks ago to these (from bog-standard cambridge audio pacifics) between my arcam cd72 and x-canv2 (w/ HD580s) and haven't had a chance to give them anything apart from a brief listen, but finally got around to it this evening.. and whoa the difference is astounding, no more overly-sharp highs (miles davis trumpet is no longer harsh on high notes), instead slightly softer to the ears... cymbals seem to last forever, bass definitely goes deeper, with more depth to everything yet smoother at the same time as nothing seems to overly stand out (highs were well over-emphasised on the pacifics).

Also I had originally thought the X-Can was poor on overly loaded rock (early flaming lips, clinic, my bloody valentine) but the VDH cable just seemed to clean everything up and transform one big mess of noise into the various instruments.. I won't say its now perfect (what is?), but it definitely helped the X-Can a great deal with that sort of music.

Anyway well reccomended for those moving from bottom-range ICs, and is probably the best EUR60 i could have spent on upgrades.. and i believe they're at EUR45 elsewhere (which really is a bargain)..

The bay is a good interconnect. Have you tried D102 III. The sound is similar but D102 III gives you more of everything deeper bass and more extended highs without harshness. Costs 30% more though.

Aye im very happy with it, as it was my first IC upgrade I didn't want to go to the price level of the D102s.. next upgrade will probably be headphone cable anyway cos I was originally skeptical about the difference (any) cable upgrade would make.. but after this im very curious
(damn more money.. if there was only some place to audition clou first ...)