Dsnuts
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Good question. I know all that gold plating is the more attractive looking cable. Looks more premium and costs more. It costs more due to more gold plating. For guys that have never used a gold plated copper cable. Gold plated copper cables are more common than Gold plated pure silver- which is the more versatile gold plated cable but cost almost 4X more. Gold plated copper cables are very niche in cable match ups and not as versatile as I would like. You have to have a very specific type of tuning in order to benefit from all that gold plating. For example if you use that cable on something like the Shozy SCB2. It will be too much coloration on the stock tuning which is already full bodied and thick sounding. Reason why that matches up amazingly well with the ISN SC4 is because the SC4 is a thinner pure silver cable with some crystal copper inlays and does not thicken a sound profile while enhancing imaging and detail.
The GD849 would be great for neutral thin sounding analytical earphones. Gold plating does not enhance stage like silver does so the benefit of the GS849 is that it is mostly a copper cable but has just enough gold in it to get some of that richer tonal flavoring and silver plating to help with technicalities of a given host earphone. It matches well with the H50 as H50 has a neutral tonality not warm and not a bright tonality. So it adds enough coloring to make them more technical adding stage imaging and detail with a slight richer flavoring. Adding just enough flavoring to enhance the H50.
The GD849 is a thicker gold plated cable and just like it looks it will bring a thick rich tonal character to any earphone it attaches to. While that might seem attractive to match up with your earphones. It might add a bit too much rich character to a phone. So it is not as versatile as I would like to report. If your earphones already have a bold full bodied sound the GD849 might be a bit too much for it.
If you look at the flagship cables for Penon like the Storms, ISN Solar and even the Totems. All 3 include a silver base for something like 1/2 or more of the cores. Silver off sets gold darkening properties on a sound profile so gold acts more to shape notes to be more rounder enhancing imaging and refines a note more so than playing the lead role.
The GS849 cable is like a cheapmans Totem/ Solar/ Storms. It is using similar components but not as finely tuned like the flagship cables but you will hear similar benefits using that cable. It throws out a wider stage, enhances imaging, detail and adds a fuller note weight to the sonics.= Just about all earphones can benefit from that if you think about it.
The GD849 would be great for neutral thin sounding analytical earphones. Gold plating does not enhance stage like silver does so the benefit of the GS849 is that it is mostly a copper cable but has just enough gold in it to get some of that richer tonal flavoring and silver plating to help with technicalities of a given host earphone. It matches well with the H50 as H50 has a neutral tonality not warm and not a bright tonality. So it adds enough coloring to make them more technical adding stage imaging and detail with a slight richer flavoring. Adding just enough flavoring to enhance the H50.
The GD849 is a thicker gold plated cable and just like it looks it will bring a thick rich tonal character to any earphone it attaches to. While that might seem attractive to match up with your earphones. It might add a bit too much rich character to a phone. So it is not as versatile as I would like to report. If your earphones already have a bold full bodied sound the GD849 might be a bit too much for it.
If you look at the flagship cables for Penon like the Storms, ISN Solar and even the Totems. All 3 include a silver base for something like 1/2 or more of the cores. Silver off sets gold darkening properties on a sound profile so gold acts more to shape notes to be more rounder enhancing imaging and refines a note more so than playing the lead role.
The GS849 cable is like a cheapmans Totem/ Solar/ Storms. It is using similar components but not as finely tuned like the flagship cables but you will hear similar benefits using that cable. It throws out a wider stage, enhances imaging, detail and adds a fuller note weight to the sonics.= Just about all earphones can benefit from that if you think about it.
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