Clearly a sign that you need customs. I had a hard time keeping Kr5 in my ears and knew any kinetic bass models would be a custom.
Thankfully the M4 showed me that FiR was going to give an identical sound going custom.
That said, other things:
Pull a Damz Hurst and sell my second bird I said. Recoup the money I said.
Nope I immediately turned around and pulled the trigger on 2 of Gladiator's not yet released cables: Argento II and Junius Brutus. Both in 8 wire configurations.
The former is the sucessor to Argento but with updated hybrid PTFE/ Hybrid insulation.Definitely going to be more supple and stable in the long run.
The latter is something Ive been aware of over the past half year. Included was sourcing 8N copper, having lab results confirming that for both the raw material and processed wires are indeed 8N and a purity report for the particular run of wire used for each cable. The wire iself is a coaxial design with copper shielding, a liquid ptfe layer and again the hybrid ptfe/tpu insulation Gladiator has been going for.
Of course this does come with a hefty price tag to the rest of the portfolio, but fairly reasonable compared to cables in the flagship copper tier.
There are available hardware options. Stock is copper/silver alloy connectors , titanium splitter and Aeco uncoated copper 4.4.
. For me this is the best Seiko i ever laid my eyes on. It is not that expensive but have this luxurious vibe. Fortunately mine have quite good accuracy which is +-3sec/day. Seiko is not well known for its accuracy compared to Grand Seiko its big brother.
