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Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
@ jayctoy Choice of cable is dependent on system and personal taste.If your system is on the forgiving side, then you may be happy with Blackcat cable.Mine is on the revealing side with plasma tweeters and SET tube amplifiers.I could not tolerat... 
Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic
I wish Doug Method also apply to digital cable but will not with impedance matching.I am done with IC and SC cable rolling with tripled cables.It sound even better after one week.I am also close to choosing digital cable after lot of huddle. 
Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
@ geoffkait I agree with you that some cables are only 50% at sale requiring lot of burn in time.I also found some cable which are almost ready to go (90%), but even those cables improve more with burn in. 
Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
@ aniwolfe To be fair to Blackcat Silverstar Mk2, it is pretty fine for the price(260$).But it sound somewhat thin and not refined in the treble out of box.I hope that those weakness shall improve with full burn in but it did not meet my high expe... 
Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
@ twoleftears I agree with your opinion that cable manufacturer shall send their product fully burnt in or at least give option at extra cost.  If manufacturers stand behind their claims that their cables sound better after significant burn-in, ... 
Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
@ aniwolfe Choice of cable is dependent on system and personal taste.But I can not recommend Blackcat  digital cable to anybody after 200 hours of use.As the last comparison, I had been switching back and forth between Zenwave D4 (500$) digital ca... 
Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.
It is Blackcat Silverstar MK2 digital cable.Upon reading some thread here, I had high expectation of it.But it is terribly etched out of box..Some user of the cable claimed more than 100 hours for full burn in.I also tend to give at least more tha... 
99$ Digital cable is damn good
I had been using Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 for 8 weeks.It showed lot of details but etched out of box.After 8 weeks, it got much better.But after comparing with 200$ Silnote Morpheus II digital cables, they are close but I prefer latter with more or... 
What is the best USED Speaker Under $10,000
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9be89-lansche-audio-no-3-floorstanding-speaker-like-new-reduce-...If you like Jazz vocal this speaker will be best with pristine treble out of plasma tweeter.With high efficiency, it can be driven by 300B SET a... 
Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake
ttps://www.ebay.com/itm/2Pair-Blunt-Silver-Screw-Spade-Fork-Banana-Plug-Connector-for-Speaker-Wire-Cable/25...If you want silver, then you can order the above.But I do not think that will make much difference 
Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-8Pcs-Set-4mm-Screw-Spade-Banana-Plug-Speaker-Wire-Cable-adapter-Gold-Pla...Mike You had better try this if you had not placed an order on Amazon.I also placed order of this one minute ago.i also need those for secure tr... 
Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0122SZIYU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc...You can order above and fit two spades into your speaker. 
3 things I learned from using MANY interconnect cables
Choice of cable is dependent on system and personal taste.You have had only limited experience.You may contact Dave of Zenwave to ask for free trial of his excellent D4 IC cable.https://zenwaveaudio.com/contact-us/It will blow away Chord Anthem.Th... 
Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic
Dear OPI am not surprised that you find double SC workThe most notable change from double SCs to Triple SCs is fuller and deeper bass with authority.Also somehow it has more relaxed and clean decay.With triple IC(Audio Note, Crystal Cable, Teo GCI... 
Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic
Triple connection of speaker cables also do wonder.I have two pairs of Audio Note speaker cables(silver plated, 6 ft each) but both of them have banana.I received connector from banana to spade from Amazon today.After connecting double Audio Note ...