Theres always a few in the crowd, and thats good. But I'm only telling it like I hear it, from my experience. Period! I have no ulterior motives whatsoever. No one is forcing or paying me to say this. I am only spreading the good word. I am a music lover and high end audio addict [neurotic, obsessive, perfectionist] who wants to spend a reasonable amount of hard earned savings to attain quality music and is elated to discover a cable that radically changed my listening window-which is by the way, sparkling clean.
Once the Ensemble cables were in place, my passion for music erupted. It was reignited after going slightly stale for a year with my other cables. And the most notable affect it had on me was expanding my musical tastes, influences like, Jazz, Jazz/Vocals, Country, Bluesgrass, etceteras. I spent almost $400 on new CD's in a month- something I have never done. And isn't that what it's all about- the music??
The Ensemble cables brought my system to life. It sounded stunning. Well beyond what my prior cables and PC's gave me, and they cannot touch the level of realism and low level details that I am hearing now.
My thoughts are based on my 11 years [2 cents worth], and especially just the last 2 years, with more serious [expensive] refinements of my system. It's fueled by that hunger for more purity in the musical playback and the release of the emotional content that bonds us with the music and makes us passionate for it; it is why we have this obsession. And it is that that made me so excited about this new cable; the inner emtional contentI do not doubt that there may be another cable to satisfy me as the Ensembles did, but it might cost much more to get it. But as I mentioned, let your ears and the cable be the judge. Not everyone will agree. As was in your case, you were not satisfied-it's bound to happen. But based on your reply, you said you only had the Megaflux speaker cable. Perhaps you were not happy because your IC was in the way. Even though this post is regarding the persons interest in the KS 3033 speaker cable, and my post does relate to that, there is more emphasis on the combination of the Dynaflux FSF IC, the Megaflux FSF Speaker Cable and the Mega Powerflux PC's as a whole in relation to the KS cables and Black Mambas. I had many good things to say about KS, but I could not deny what I was hearing from the Ensemble. Its that simple. I will add that the Ensemble speaker cable just leveled out everything. It was not as dramatic an improvement as the IC and PC's were. But it still was in a league of its own and like nothing I have heard in my system. When I said that the previous cables and PC's sounded like the singer had a sock in their mouth and the musicians were behind a thick wall of fabric, I was not being facetious. It was meant only to be slightly humorous, but very serious. My investment was just put to shame. And all the glorious praise I gave them, faded away in a minute. Believe me when I say, the last thing I wanted to do was to throw away my cable investment. But after the change, I could not possibly go back.
I'm not forcing anyone to buy this cable, unlike many cable manufacturers with their suffocating advertising, dealer incentive deals, pay offs and biased reviews because of the designers name or the product label. I just felt compelled to offer my experience to someone asking for it and hoped that they would audition the cables I recommended and perhaps have the same wonderful experience that I had.
And does it really matter if I posted more then one reply? In the same night? In the same catagory? Am I not entitled to my opinion as you are with your perspective in regards to Ensemble cables, or others? I felt it was a superior cable with what I mentioned that I had and wanted to share my insight with others who might be in a similar situation. Sure, it is going to stir things up, I want it to. EXPERIMENT!!
I too, have auditioned Harmonic Techs lower range as well as the Magic IC. It did not move me as the Ensemble did. The Magic IC was similar to the Ensemble in ways, but not completely there.Thats it.
If a cable that cost 1/10th or less of that then another cable and yet offers say, 75 to 95% of the more expensive cables sonic worth, isn't there something seriously wrong with that companies pricing?
Enjoy the music
