Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol


I just bought a pair of 10 T’s and am having a raspy edge on the high end. I contacted Mr. Kelly at Aeriel Acoustics and I sent the tweets to them for an evaluation...  tweets are in good shape! I have replaced everything in the system except the spk cables... I bought BJ cables the 10 ga. Belden etc. I have a dear friend in the high end audio business and is sending me a higher end pair of cables. Not sure what they are going to be but he is excited for me to try them....

Are the Belden really that bad? Can they be the cause of the raspy bad guys?

I am really looking forward to this... not so much for my wallet... she is scared. 

Looking forward to the great experience here on the GON...
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Check out the review below.  The Marantz SA8005 is a solid player.  I happen to own the original Arcam irDAC compared favorably to the Marantz here, at least for streaming digital.  The original irDAC plus a decent digital interconnect can probably be aquired for much less than the SA8005, and when used with your Denon would sound better on redbook CD’s or PCM digital files streamed from a computer.  There are many other high quality PCM DACs from other manufacturers coming available used for reasonable prices as people look for DSD and MQA capability (I would steer clear of the Arcam irDACII however).

https://www.wifihifi.ca/LatestNewsHeadlines/HANDS-ONREVIEW:MARANTZPM8005ANDSA8005.html
I got new cables this week an I do like them... My “audio mentor” sent them to me as I ask to borrow something so I could “hear” a cable other that the 10 ga. Belden cables I have now in order to remove the belden set from the equation. I do like the Tranparent set but I wont have the opportunity really compare for a few months because I dont have my A 21+ yet.


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