Hi Geopolitis, before I start raving, let me tell you where I see myself with regard to cords and cables. I have adopted the belief that cables are of utter importance when that was still a small minority insight. However, I've also always held the belief that quality sources, amps and speakers come first, without those cables mean nothing. That also implies with ideal (as far as possible) gear the ideal cable doesn't do anything (no colouring, no masking, no smearing, no swallowing of signal contents), it will just let the gear shine in all its glory! Given the more or less subjective side of our personal "likings" and the fact that most gear sins one way or another, I do accept that cables have a character and let one or the other aspect of the gear shine more than another. To achieve the latter on the other hand there has always been a limit to what I felt reasonable to pay.
In my own system cost/quality wise I have grown fond of both Virtual Dynamics Revelation as well as Purist Venustas, different in character (in both cases, the model designation was actually very well chosen!) but unobtrusive and not messing with what the gear can do.
Enter Argento Flow! What is more: as part of a dreamteam. I have spent hours at Dmitry Valdin's of Transparent Acoustic, listening to a system consisting of the Ancient Audio Lektor Plus, Tidal Preos, Tidal Impact monoblocks and Tidal Contrivas (the "normal" ones) - and I should also mention Dmitry's wonderful room acoustics devices - with a full loom of Argento Flow cables. I have also heard the same set-up at the Munich fair, completed by the Audiostone Pythagoras 'table. Well, I simply don't have the funds which is why I have resisted to audition these cables in my own system since then; I am scared I'd rob the bank to get these cables, my long held cost considerations went up in smoke for the first time. This is the exact reflection of the Tidal philosophy: Truth, nothing more and certainly nothing less. A window (but without a pane) on the artist, his/her skills and emotions, exactly what my above musings about ideal gear and cables are all about. Great! Ulrik and Jörn, you guys are both geniuses.
In my own system cost/quality wise I have grown fond of both Virtual Dynamics Revelation as well as Purist Venustas, different in character (in both cases, the model designation was actually very well chosen!) but unobtrusive and not messing with what the gear can do.
Enter Argento Flow! What is more: as part of a dreamteam. I have spent hours at Dmitry Valdin's of Transparent Acoustic, listening to a system consisting of the Ancient Audio Lektor Plus, Tidal Preos, Tidal Impact monoblocks and Tidal Contrivas (the "normal" ones) - and I should also mention Dmitry's wonderful room acoustics devices - with a full loom of Argento Flow cables. I have also heard the same set-up at the Munich fair, completed by the Audiostone Pythagoras 'table. Well, I simply don't have the funds which is why I have resisted to audition these cables in my own system since then; I am scared I'd rob the bank to get these cables, my long held cost considerations went up in smoke for the first time. This is the exact reflection of the Tidal philosophy: Truth, nothing more and certainly nothing less. A window (but without a pane) on the artist, his/her skills and emotions, exactly what my above musings about ideal gear and cables are all about. Great! Ulrik and Jörn, you guys are both geniuses.