Why don't gold based cable fans try Synergistic

Bullot, I don't respect his integrity. He sounds like someone unknowing of anything electrical. Why would he be a SR dealer if he knew something was wrong with them electrically?

Well Tbg., he sells alot of different components. If you have a dealer and ask him which of his components or cables he likes best, he should be honest. If you go to your dealer and ask the technician, who does the repairs, which component is more reliable, he should tell you! This is what I call a good relationship with my/your dealer. Also, to be clear, he did not say something was wrong with them electrically......he said "SR has their quirks"...... At the time I was looking for a power conditioner, he sold a number and advised me to get the RSA Dmitri over the powercell........turns out the Dmitri is a 2009 product of the year in Absolute Sound I believe it was! I don't see in any way why I would question this mans integrity! The opposite lives in fact.

More surprisingly, I went to a dealer once trying to decide whether I should buy a Audio Research pre or a Nagra PLL.............this dealer sold AR and told me she prefered the Nagra! These inputs are only one small piece of info used when making a decision. So, what's wrong with an honest person.......even if they are a dealer! I know I appreciate it and when the time comes to purchase something I remember these people and call them first.

Bullot, you are indeed lucky to have a local dealer. I have not had one for the last thirty years. But I do remember that I had few instances such as those you recounted. What you say, however, does not negate the totally implausibly of what he or she suggested as a SR "quirk." However, move forward and enjoy.

Currently trying out the AU-79 interconnects and, frankly, I can't say that I am that impressed. In my system, they sound a little veiled and sluggish and with a slightly pronounced bottom end; nothing really that wrong with them, but I do prefer my current Alpha Sterlings by far.

A couple of things to say; Most of the successful "gold" interconnects are actually mixtures of gold and other metals. The reason the cable makers did this is because of the sound of all gold conductors described by Jnk and others. But gold does have a particular sound quality that other metals do not. This is why they keep some gold in their recipe.

I currently use a Gabriel Gold Rapture interconnect between Oppo SE player and a tubed preamp. It sounds great and was very much needed with the Oppo SE. Any interconnect or powercord with silver in it sounded unlistenable. Copper interconnects were good with the Oppo, but not as good as the GGR.

Interestingly though, I also use a Synergistic Powercell 10se which has some silver in the powercord. I did further tame it with an UberBuss and a Purist cord before the 10se.

Replacing the Synergistic cord (Precision AC) with others was not as good. It just sounds great now. I do plan on experimenting with more Gabriel gold and Synergistic cords in the rest of the system.

I guess my point is, they are both excellent products and are compatible. It greatly depends on the components used because of each component's sonic traits.

I suppose some may end up with, let's say all GG cables except for speaker cables with active sheilding (and maybe Speakercells), or all Synergistic active cables, except for the speaker cables being Gabriel Gold (again, maybe with Speakercells).

Anyway, I don't see how someone can go wrong with these products unless there is an obvious missmatch with a component.