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Anti-cable purchase

Just bought a balanced pre-amp to match with my power amp (ayre). I want to try running the latter in balanced mode so I need xlr cables. I thought about going the anti-cable route (although I'm open to suggestions). They have 4 performance levels of cables. Are the upper end cables worth the money? The amp / preamp incidentally is v-5xe with K-5xemp. thanks.
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sonic_genius
528 posts
 
Better options than Monoprice, IMO. What is your budget?
russellrcncom OP
206 posts
 
$500 for two meters.
metralla
945 posts
 
Since all you want to do is try it in balanced mode - and it's a worthwhile experiment - get a pair of Mogami interconnects from Markertek. They are very well made with Neutrik XLR connectors and are fairly thin and flexible - easy to route. They make thousands of these a month for pro-audio and they have no flaws.

The Mogami 2534 Neglex Quad Cable balanced interconnects from Markertek are $50 for 2m pair. You can't beat their service either - usually shipped the same day. These are very neutral sounding interconnects and even if you upgrade them one day, you will have a nice benchmark and a spare set of cables. Always useful.

John Marks of Stereophile thinks very highly of the Mogami interconnects. I run them between a BAT preamp and Lamm ML2.1 SETs

Regards,
mceljo
983 posts
 
Metralla makes a great suggestion as the Neutric connectors are an excellent design.
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