Cables for CAT JL2 - is Purist non-silver enough?

John - that's really helpful, thanks a lot. I have a dedicated circuit but it's 15a. Ken Stevens thought it would suffice, I may upgrade it to 30a. I have an Aqueous Anniv power cord and was considering getting a 3m AA rca from a Wavestream Kinetics phono to the Calypso and a 1m AA rca from Calypso to amp. Not sure about CDP to pre - I could use Poiema!!! or Jena Symphony or Stealth PGS Gold if I didn't want to invest in more Purist. The Dominus is more than I can afford and I was told the AA IC is better than the more expensive Venustas, at least for my application. Currently have Auditorium 23 speaker cables which I like but I don't know how the Opis would compare. Based on your experience I would hesitate to plop for AA speaker cables unless I could demo them first. There are some KS Fascination SCs here - they're a lot less than the Emotion, I wonder if they are a good value? Thanks everyone for your responses.

Samclark,

I use the Cat ultimate and JL-2. I use Virtual Dynamics throughout and I'm extemely happy with them. A couple of points to add. 1) I agree that the transparency and dynamics of CAT equipment really let through what the cable is capable, or not capable, of 2) A complete sytem of VD cables sounds best. More on point 2. VD cables are so good that they will completely exemplify their strengths when used toghether. In other words, when used in a mixed system, the other cable will likely hold back the true strengths of the VD cables. However, it is wrong to assume that VD cables do not sound good in a mixed system. I went that path. And each addition of VD cables bettered the previous cable and improved the system overall. I went from front end PC's to IC's to speaker cables. I highly recommend Virtual Dynamics with CAT or ANY gear. They are very neutral and beuatiful sounding. Like CAT gear, they make most other cables sound broken...vieled and flat.

Andrew

I have a CAT Signature MKIII and a pair of JL1s. I don't have the money some of you guys have to throw at cables, but I have tried some silver cables and didn't like them much. I still use Magnan Vi improved. The sound is real good.

Hi Samcclark

I borrowed Stereovox cable (silver) to try in my system and the result was great (That was older Stereovox series cable with special connectors). My system is Avalon Eidolon. ARC Ref3, CAT JL2. When I put NBS Statement Extreme (just one interconnect) I lost separation of instruments, soundstage to some extend and transperency, but obtained more euphoric musicality. My friend had different opinion on that when he put NBS Statement Extreme in his Kharma/Tenor/Stereovox system. He thought that NBS improved his system performance.
I'm trying to organize a test with Purist Audio Dominus. Dominus has superb reputation and I wonder what it can do to my system.
In regard to power cable on CAT JL2 I had best result with Elrod EPS-3 Signature so far. I also tried NBS Serpent and Shunyata Python Alpha.

Regards,
Eugene