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They sound cleaner more detailed and images even better using the OSG cable connected to them.
Now if there was more bass…
As it turned out, OSG did exactly what I wanted - which was to bring on the Conductor’s bass.
With the stock cable, I wasn’t getting enough bass to make the timbre of instruments like the double bass quite enjoyable for jazz and the like. The OSG fills out the midbass to give bass instruments and even lower register piano the fundamentals they need.
Treble also gets an improvement - it's sweeter, smoother and better extended. Less spiky in the upper mids/lower treble.
And yes, OSG is good for showing off the Conductor's soundstage and imaging chops.
Digging it here with the RS6.

The MMCX sockets are tight. They don’t swivel freely. Connectors snap on securely and take some effort to remove.
Anyway I put these adaptors on the Conductor. They're a bit spendy but feel solid and well made and (most importantly) don't seem to colour the sound as far as I can tell. So this Conductor will remain 2-pin for the foreseeable future while I try out other pairings. I know, I prefer to wear my buds cable down and this forces me to wear them over ear like IEMs but I use IEMs anyway, don’t I? So I can just get used to them.
Anyway - let me say that you don't necessarily need the OSG to optimise the Conductor (besides, it costs more than the Conductor - I originally bought it for my Volt, but it seems a bit much if you’re planning to use it just for the Conductor). But for those of you who like your tunings with more meat on the midbass, the stock cable can be a bit economical in that area, and a number of other cables do better without much effort.
My other favourites so far are both by NiceHCK - Dragonscale 2 and PtGr, with Dragonscale having slightly nicer lower mids and PtGr having the advantage in imaging and layering. Both very resolving. But those aren't cheap either, so I also gave it a whirl on some relatively less expensive pairings:
OCC849
It too produced a more timbrally natural sound than the stock cable. The upper mids and lower treble tend to be relatively less controlled than the other cable pairings I tried, but it may also come down to source synergy and music library/preferences.
Moonlight stock cable
I sold the Moonlight ages ago but bought this separately as a spare stock cable, which I kept. It was touted as a baby OSG at the time and seems to live up to its billing. Its timbral improvements to Conductor are very similar to that of the OSG, though I hear less treble extension and the OSG has better imaging and detail.
For some unfathomable reason I got this with a 3.5mm single-ended plug, so it's entirely possible that a balanced termination might push it closer to the OSG.
Its 2-pin connectors also sit flush with the socket, which some folks may prefer - I gotta say they don’t look too shabby here.

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