Question of priorities in audio cables

Stevecham....I totally agree with Anti's. They now make various levels...I had them all, and every level is certainly an increase in sound. I have my balanced cables with Xadow ends. Nice. I too tried many, many different brands...my favorites are Audioquest Sky/Everest. My Anti's are so similar, no one I asked (wife, neighbors, UPS man) could tell me which ones are better.

Thats why i love Purist it has all 3.

Stevecham, Hi, It appears you have not tried the top shelf cables Tara Labs has to offer, like the Zero Gold, then up to the new Zero Evolution, or the new top cable, The Grandmaster Evolution cables by Tara Labs, I have tried many cables myself, once I went up the Tara cable food chain, there was no other cable.

I just had a very interesting experience. I've been trying different IC's having different architectures with varying results.

The latest IC was the Essence gZero6 from KLE Innovations. Reading their web site, they state their architecture (or geometry) is to wind the neutral conductor around the signal conductor - the premise being that two cables side-by-side causes noise in the neutral which affects the operation of components it is connected to.

So I took one of the conductors (of a twisted pair) from my silver IC, inserted it in a 3 ft long 1/10" Teflon tube and wrapped the neutral around the tube with a 1/4" spacing between each winding. The neutral was made from one conductor (copper) from a CAT6 network cable.

Connected the very same RCA's and voila!

The performance improvement was remarkable, when compared to the original twisted pair silver interconnect.

The new cable was better at everything across the board, but the most startling improvement was to the dynamic response - incredibly fast and powerful

Considering that one of the silver conductors was downgraded to copper I think this clearly demonstrates the importance of cable architecture.

There is One caveat: I use the KLE Innovations RCA's on all my cables - without them you will not get the same dynamic response - they are among the very best RCA's out there.

Their cables too are excellent performers - very dynamic and neutral sounding with a very wide and deep image - I have them also :-)

Something to ponder