I just received French Silk Q-cable for my LCD-2 Rev.2 today. I wanted to wait a few days before I wrote my opinion here, but I honestly couldn't wait. I LOVE IT!
It is my first taste of 3rd party cables, and I wasn't sure if there would be a difference from all the anti-cable talk around those forums.
Either way I thought the difference won't be that big anyway. I actually just got it because the stock cable had reached its final breaths.
So I decided to give it my best try, and after extensive research I settled with Q. It seemed to sound the best. It was also generally cheaper than most other cables that I considered.
Communication with Steve was awesome. He answers very quickly, and answers any stupid questions I have.
He even told me that the adapter I already have is good enough, so he spared me the cash of buying one from him. Quite honest.
So, I got the cables anyway, and they sound beautiful. Add me to the gullible believers' list.
I don't understand how anyone can't hear the difference...it is so obvious! Must be some serious denial going on.
It certainly is not placebo, because I didn't even particularly want to believe it had an effect...it would be much cheaper in the future if it didn't have an effect!
Besides, I can massage my ego and feel all intelligent and clever that the cable-scam didn't work on me.
Which is what I'm inclined to anyway, being the conspiracy-theorist I am!
But of course it made a difference. Not Amp-changing difference ... but quite noticeable to audiophiles or average listeners like myself.
I'm not going to go into hopeless explanations of the sound because, frankly Mr. Shankly, I can''t. But it does feel like the sound was restrained and now it is released. Sorry, that's my best! lol
I just wanted to add my voice here and give some appreciation to the cable and Steve.
If I was creating headphones that I know are good, I would sell them with that cable, so everyone could hear what they REALLY sound like.
Physically, the cable is prettier than I thought it would (or could) be. It is very soft, light and extremely easy to manipulate around ... and it sounds great ... I feel it is very well made, like the music is not held back at all, almost the same exact signal coming out of the amp is reaching the headphones, no loss of quality. So it feels.
I can, honestly, tell that lots of love, labour and knowledge were put into that cable.
Now, scrolling down on the website .... looking at those interconnects, they look ok, they look nice, they look sexy, enticing ... wonder what difference THOSE would do ... hmmm ...