nikongod
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I la-la-love my cable upgrades. Allow me a moment to tell you why.
I was previously using a stock iPod with the standard line out with the Koss KSC-75. I must say that things were not as great as I would like. My amp was a C-moy, but according to the threads I have been reding lately that is 100% adequate.
I upgraded the cable from the stock tinsel wire to one made of a 4*4 braid of 28ga pure (9 nines) silver with each strand individually insulated with a layer of castor bean oil in a teflon sheath. This was not an inexpensive cable requiring the construction of cuistom wires, and 1200 hours of construction effort on my part.
I am happy to say that the effort and cost was worth it! Everything is better! The highs are higher, the lows are lower and the mids are right there in the middle where they belong on ever song. I can not adequately express my joy with this wire. I took a moment to compare to someone who claims to have a real system (lolerskates, f'ing amateur) with HD800, a differntial (balanced!) tube amp, and a DAC that he says is adequate for studio use. what a joke his system is. Im sorry, but niothing is the same as my otherwise inexpensive system with the money where it matters - in the cables. when I listen to this poor sap's system the mids can go anywhere in the soundstage - forwards, back, up down.. wow, they belong in the middle. sorry he got played. the highs are generally behind the mids, and line up with the snare drum although vocal sybalance is locked with the voices again, im sorry but its wrong. On my system the highs are in your face where they belong. The bass, all I can say is mneh. its there, and we measured his system down to low single digit frequencies but its not the same as mine. with the song "smack my b11ch up" by prodigy the bass on my system totally masks everything else when it comes in. I mean come on, its meant to blow you away like it does.
I was previously using a stock iPod with the standard line out with the Koss KSC-75. I must say that things were not as great as I would like. My amp was a C-moy, but according to the threads I have been reding lately that is 100% adequate.
I upgraded the cable from the stock tinsel wire to one made of a 4*4 braid of 28ga pure (9 nines) silver with each strand individually insulated with a layer of castor bean oil in a teflon sheath. This was not an inexpensive cable requiring the construction of cuistom wires, and 1200 hours of construction effort on my part.
I am happy to say that the effort and cost was worth it! Everything is better! The highs are higher, the lows are lower and the mids are right there in the middle where they belong on ever song. I can not adequately express my joy with this wire. I took a moment to compare to someone who claims to have a real system (lolerskates, f'ing amateur) with HD800, a differntial (balanced!) tube amp, and a DAC that he says is adequate for studio use. what a joke his system is. Im sorry, but niothing is the same as my otherwise inexpensive system with the money where it matters - in the cables. when I listen to this poor sap's system the mids can go anywhere in the soundstage - forwards, back, up down.. wow, they belong in the middle. sorry he got played. the highs are generally behind the mids, and line up with the snare drum although vocal sybalance is locked with the voices again, im sorry but its wrong. On my system the highs are in your face where they belong. The bass, all I can say is mneh. its there, and we measured his system down to low single digit frequencies but its not the same as mine. with the song "smack my b11ch up" by prodigy the bass on my system totally masks everything else when it comes in. I mean come on, its meant to blow you away like it does.