Edition9--balanced, silvered, and controlled!

I just got my Edition9 back from Drew at Moon Audio. I worked pretty hard at getting a fully balanced source to headphone system, so it was killing me to have my Edition9 not be balanced, given that they're my favorite dynamic can (although they're damned uncomfortable). So I contacted Drew (who'd done a fine job on my GS-1000 balanced recable), who said my instincts were good on the choice of the Silver Dragon recable. Although I was never bothered enough by the Edition9 bass to become one of the (unfortunately) many haters, I could acknowledge that it was a little untamed, so I was thinking that having silver cables might help with this. I'd never owned silver cables before, but they seemed to have a good reputation (or bad, depending on how you think) for being a little on the "thin" side, so I thought they might be able to control the bass.

It turns out that, in the case of the Edition9 bass, you don't know what you've got til it's gone... the cable has really done a lot for the bass by making there be less of it. I don't know if it is mostly the silver, or the fact that they are now balanced, but something has changed for the better. A little bit of the tactile slam is gone, but so is a lot of the boominess. The bass definition of these has greatly increased, and it seems like this is helping the other frequencies shine.

Anyways, to any of you who've bought the Edition9 and were disappointed with it, it may behoove you to try a recable.

It may also have been that I switched to having it balanced. Single ended to balanced seems more likely to make a big difference than copper to silver. I just thought of silver as a nice tweak to top it off. Care to shed some light on this, Drew?

Don't get me wrong, these things still have PLENTY of bass. It just seems to be more controlled; ie, boomy bass=too much bass, tight bass=just right.