Christer
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I bought Chord Clearway rca cables in Singapore to be able to use my Qutest from day one with my Benchmark HGC2 headphone amp.Thanks Atirya. I'm looking at chord clearway rca interconnect.
But in my system both via headphones and speakers at home I use a clearly more refined Chord Indigo Blue which lets my Qutest deliver more of what is actually on the recordings without hardening at climaxes, than Clearway allows.
Clearway is quite an ok, budget cable imho. But Qutest is definitely good enough to reveal a slight hardness when using budget cables like Clearway.
As far as cables are concerned Rca cables can make quite difference with well recorded complex acoustic music imho.
The differences being a bit similar and even more obvious to what many hear between the stock BNC with Mscaler and upgrade ones like Wave cables.
I personally clearly prefer Wave Storm over Stream with most recordings for similar reasons I also much prefer my Indigo Blue rca over both Clearway and three different Audioquest rca cables I still have lying around but only used during travels.
Fuller, warmer, darker and lets me play louder without hardening.
Unfortunately big extra costs involved in both cases.
But with RCA cables there are lots of second hand but very good ones out there to choose from.
I think I understand why cable build matters with RCA cables carrying an analogue signal.
But I am still a bit puzzled why copper in one and silver in the other but the same number of Ferrites in both BNCs can make such an easily audible difference as they do in my systems ?
I hope you haven´t lost too much hard earned cash from your "Dave only", adventure, but interesting to read that you missed the Mscaler too much in the long run.
For me the main reason owning a Chord dac ,is the Mscaler.
Cheers CC
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