@Audio labyrinth Thank you for your reply. They are indeed old but really must have been pretty good in their day as my system is liking them a lot. Heck, the system electronics are also old. I'm thrilled with the sound. Looked at their newer line, but it's out of line in my case. I'll just sit back, relax and enjoy.
@ gillatgh, Hi, Sorry I just getting back here, I have been boxing audio equipment, posting ads, etc.. I'm glad you are enjoying those old entry level Tara cable's, been along time since I seen those, l still have in my collection the very first built Tara Lab's cable's, it's history, they sound good for what they are, cheers.
Never mind, I have my answer. They maybe old like me but wow I'm impressed! I can actually hear a real improvement. Having tried AQ, Transparent, Kimber, JW, Monster, Blue Jean and some I can't remember these Tara labs really make my system sing. Best I've tried, very impressive. I guess there is something to be said for synergy.Think I'll hang on to these.
Hi there, just happen upon this thread and someone here might enlighten me. Recently I purchased a set of Tara labs RSC 1000 biwire, I figured it couldn't be any less than the blue jeans currently in use. Lexicon pre, Emotiva amp, combo, rogue pharaoh. I know the cables are late 90s or so. Any idea what I can expect? Never tried any Tara product or heard any.
The answer to your post, unfortunately, I have to sell the Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier, as good as it is, I believe I need to have more current for the magico q3 speaker's, these need a lot to get better bass, the Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier is a fine amplifier.
Has anyone seen the New Tara Lab's head phone cable's? https://www.taralabs.com/products/item/17-headphone-cables/138-omega-livehttps://www.taralabs.com/products/item/17-headphone-cables/137-master-livehttps://www.taralabs.com/products/item/17-headphone-cables/136-echo-live
The Tara Lab's muse speaker cable's and interconnect's are musical, takes quite a long time to break in, 400 hrs to start hearing a substantial improvement, as it turns out, 500 hrs you are getting most of the performance values of the cable's.
I read on a popular amplifier thread recently that the op believes that an integrated amplifier gives most of the house sound of any given brand, wow!, that's silly at best, I assure you my amplifier is a completely different animal than any krell integrated amplifier I ever owned or listened too, that said, there is no way I believe a Dan D Agostino Intergrated amp will have the house sound of the Dag M400 mono block amplifiers or the Relentless mono block amplifiers that is the current flagship amplifier.
Wow!, Having two Tara Lab's cobalt reference power cord's is incredible, I have one on the amplifier, another on the dac, and a cobalt standard on the transport, you need to hear this to believe it🤓😃
I have been quite busy with audio, The Tara Lab's cobalt reference power cord is a surprise!, this is a worthy step up from the cobalt power cord with oyaida terminations, I did over 400 hrs of burn in time, I enjoy this improvement so much that I ordered another cobalt reference power cord 🍹🍸🍷🥃🍺
Hi kodak805, Thankyou for bringing this to my attention, oh, not again, a couple year’s back this happened, I contacted Tara Lab’s and the next thing I knew the listing disappeared, Tara Lab’s never disclosed that if it was really Mathew bond are not, which I find strange! Mathew did a few year’s back design some cable’s for a company that he was involved with called Madison audio labs, I suppose that business adventure ended, I’m not sure if the person is fake or not, I will definitely look into this next week, during the mean time I would definitely not buy this cable!, yes, Mathew is still a designer and consultant for Tara Lab’s.
What do you know, if anything, about Matthew Bond and his company? Is he still affiliated with TARA Labs as a designer, consultant, etc.? Is his company just a division of TARA or a competitor?
I raise these issues because of this current listing:
Do you have any knowledge of this specific product? I currently have the TARA Labs Zero Evolution XLR interconnects which he claims are outperformed by his cables.
Hi Audiolabyrinth, yes I have 509x. I don't see that 509x has narrow/shallow soundstage. When played low to moderate sound levels, its actually very good, but pushed harder its (to me) sounds a little distorted. I think the pre-amp section in the 509x is great and this is why the 509x sound so refined and textured, but the amplifier section is a little underpowered. I come to realization, that unless I get high sensitivity speakers or small listening room, I shouldn't buy anything with power less than 250w /per 8 ohm and doubling it at 4 ohm. You need that kind of power to get that relaxed but powerful sound with great soundstage. I see you did it all correct- great cables, dedicated outlet. I don't think fuses will help so. To get the full potential out of your Magico q3, I think you need something like gryphon diablo, pass int-250 or vitus ri-101 or go with separates.
I will also add, the Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier is on a dedicated line with furutech gtx-Rhodium duplex receptacle that I've pre-burned in from the main system, the main system has the furutech gtx-Rhodium NCF version receptacle's in place there.
I have 139 hrs on the Tara Lab's muse cable system, very impressed at this point, these cable's were a bigger component change than the new Luxman L-509X! They seem to match very well together, that was my intention's when I contemplated all this to begin with, I'm not sure if anyone has listened to a Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier like this before, the scary thing here is that the cable's will continue to get better with further burn in, the Tara Lab's cobalt power cord is on the Luxman L-509X integrated amplifier as well, that is huge by itself , no listening fatigue at all, very transparent, with musicality and speed, this is one of the best integrated amplifier's I've listened to, but these cable's!🎼🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵
For the second time, the Ayon player, also, I'm not going to elaborate on past equipment that sounded good new out of the box, that's not at hand here.
@ wcfeil, Hi, I once had the Ayon cd-s2 digital player, sounded good out of the box new, however, 3 month's later the power supply blew up, needless to say, I got a full refund, cheers
Been busy gentleman, packing, doing sales, alot going on here, so here is where I'm at, more to come with many post, the Luxman L-509X is a great piece of equipment, fit and finish is over the top, the top plate seems to be quality brushed aluminum, however, the rest of the component is magnesium or cast aluminum, the back is the best engineerd thought out lay out period, kudos Luxman, the speaker terminations have plastic boxed framework around them, no chance for big girth speaker cable's to roll such Tara Lab's that I'm using that are brand new! I am at 74 hrs burn in, out of the box, the Luxman L-509X and tara lab's muse model interconnect's and speaker cable's where beyond my expectations, my higher end Tara Lab's cable's had to burn in a lengthy time before listenable, that's why I said, this is rare!, that a cable system and amplifier was listenable out of the box new!, never had that experience, more to come.
Huh...dunno about out-of-the-box, but I think I’m having one of those out of the past, deja vu all over again moments. Could wcfeil be the legendary Bill Feil (aka Audiofeil)? I have missed the sarcasm-laced insights.
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