Cícero Shmidt
pfm Member
Did you audition the cable before you purchased? Do you recognise any of the criticisms of the cable, from your own experience, or is your experience different? I tried some of the Reson speaker cable, about 20 years ago and hated it. No bass energy at to speak of. I spent slightly more on some NVA cable and the difference was stark. But I won't assume the cable has stayed the same in the intervening 20 years, so I'm curious as to whether it has changed or still has the same basic attributes.
Here are some impressions
I don't know how it played in your system, but here I found the bass a little stunted. On the other hand, in the middle frequencies there is a very nice feeling of transparency. I put it on for JJ Cale's Naturally. It was the best audition I've had on this record. I wanted to marry the audio. But the honeymoon didn't go that far, records like Black Sabbath's Number IV seem to have had the bassist fired.
Unfortunately, it seems like a cable that presents you with one hand and takes you out with the other. Denis Morecroft explains that conventional cables and their relationship with the amplifier tend, according to him, to insert lumpy bass and shrill highs and that DNM would equate this relationship. But I don't think that's the case, firing the bass player doesn't seem to be equating much.
As I don't believe in cable "break-in", I believe that bass will never come out. I'll give the cable a second chance, now placed between the preamp and the Marantz 2285b. It will be my last effort with this cable, otherwise I say it is only for some systems, or as a curiosity. A pity, it is extremely musical, soft, elegant in what it does well.