Tara labs,onyx interconnect

Here I Am, LOL!, The one and only, Audiolabyrinth!, Do not buy Taralabs, They are junk cable!

Just Kidding!, The onyx is a very good cable, If you have questions, I may be of service., cheers.

@ Misternice, Hi, pops is a dear friend of mine and a well seasoned audiophile,, The Taralabs master interconnect you have I use to own myself, You are going to go thru a state of shock going to the onyx i/c, the onyx should come with three jumper cables and one hfx grounding station, one jumper cable with the spade termination and the bannana termination is your grounding jumper cable, the bannana plugs in the middle hole on the hfx box and the spade end you need to unscrew a screw on one of your componets and put the spade end of the grounding jumper on the componet, this is your ground, this signifacally reduces the noise floor!, the other two jumper cables have bannana terminations on both ends, on the source end of the interconnect only, you plug your jumpers to the pig tails coming out of the cable and then plug the other ends to the grounding station,, the other end of the interconnect you simply plug into each other,, If it is a used cable you bought, please give it 300 hours of re-burn-in time,, then you can evaluate your impressions of your cable, 400 hours if it is new,,, your onyx i/c is at 85% the performance value of the current Taralabs top cable, the zero gold that I own,, If you enjoy the Tara sound, you will love this cable and live with it a long time,, congrats to you!, you have a very, very, great cable, one of the best available!, we will be here to hear what you have to say on the sound,, Happy listening!

@ Jebsmith73, Hi, I am going to run my i/c to earth ground myself!, I know its better, I have not got around to doing it, and I have to come up with a way to run earth ground to my grounding station, Are you running your grounding station to earth ground?, how much of an improvement is it?, Thankyou, and cheers.

@ Misternice, Hi, where do you live?, cheers.

@ Misternice, Are you Austalian?, LOL!, You have not hit me with mate yet, what major city are you close to?, Melbourne?, You know the founder of Taralabs is from Australia, He still lives there at times, His R&D for the cables is there, this is where he is finishing up on his new top cables at, thats due before or by march 2014, His name is Mathew Bond, cheers.

@ Misternice, Wow!, You are the first gentleman I have talked to from New Zealand, what a beutiful country New Zealand is!,, How do you like Australia so far?, any trouble from the locals?, they do not like many americans,,, what kind of work do you do?,,, Each model in the Tara line up does take a different amout of burn-in time, your onyx is close to the zero gold, I put 400 hours on my the zero gold, I bought it used, I believe it is still improving with more playing time, I thought it was done at 400 hours, I was wrong, Its getting even better than before, surly 600 hours it will be complete, Are you useing Tara speaker cables?,, cheers mate.

@ Misternice, Hi, I did know Plinius was from New Zealand, well, if you like rock-n-roll, I would say a band called Halestorm, their 2009 debut Atlantic records cd, all the songs are good, the band has a real good female singer!, they have a new alblum out now, we will get it soon..,, I would say, eany Taralabs speaker cable from the one on up is a good speaker cable, we just bought their current top power cable the cobalt power cord with the oyaide plugs, I will not get to listen to the power cord untill we get our Krell 700 cx amp back from Krell in october, thats when we pay our final payment for renewing the amp!, cheers.

@ Misternice, The Taralabs Zero Gold Balanced 1-meter, I only use one i/c period, I run my source direct to amp.,, cheers.

@ Grey9hound, Hi, The Ayon 2s that I am cuurently using has a transformer based volume control, All the cd-players I have had is either digital volume control or analog volume control, the analog volume control units are a pre-amp built into the unit, say like the Ayon 5s player, The 2s that I have is digital volume, what makes it better than most other digital volumes is the fact that the signal goes from the out-put tubes to a transformer on each channel before out-put to the amplifier, esentually a transformer based digital volume control, the result is way better clarity over a pre-amp, you would need to buy a pre-amp over the $10,000.00 price point to better direct to amp!, However it can be done!, cheers.

@ mister nice, Did you get a chance to youtube any songs from the Halestorm alblum?

@ Misternice, Right on, Did you listen to Halestorm, familiar tast of poison?, Its a power ballad, this song sounds real good on high-end audio systems!, these days music does not have such beutiful power ballads, she is one good singer, like I said, their debut alblum is great, every song is good, thats rare to these days, Happy Listening.

Misternice, Hi, so when do you expect the cable at your house?, are you buying used or new?

@ misternice, I love analog!, I have only been building this main system since 4-2012, I do not even have a powered pre-amp yet, I have to run cd source straight to amp because of the cost of admission of my interconnects, the Tara zero gold is quite exspensive, we are poor!, this will take years to build, not only that, I have found that running direct is suppior to most pre-amps untill you get to over the $10,000.00 dollar mark of pre-amps!, you really need to authenticate your cable with the factory when you recieve it, it should have serial numbers, call Taralabs with the number to do this!, there are counterfiets out there!, once you fully break-in your cable, its off to the races, you will want more of the exsperience of what you bought,Lol!, thats what happened to me, do 400 hours before you give me your impressions of your cable, I do enjoy what you might say of the sound, cheers.

@ Misternice, Hi, Unfortunally I have never used a sub woofer cable, of course you can start a thread and get answers, cheers.

Misternice, Taralabs makes a sub woofer cable, go to the site, look it over and tell me what you think, cheers.

@ Jafant, No there is not!, I can tell you no one makes a better $5,000.00 price point power cord on the planet!, The Taralabs cobalt power cord, sure you can get better, try $11,000.00 to be able to do it!, The zero gold interconnect is still in the handfull of best available!, there is a couple of cables out there that is better, depends what sound you want on your system, system synergy!, and then there is the omega gold speaker cable, this cable is a more profound cable than eanything Taralabs makes, there is no better speaker cable out there period!, at any price point!, good luck on finding any evidence to prove other wise! cheers!

@ misternice, Hi, pops knows me, and my name, It is Keith, Pops will give you awsome recommendations to, the other cables he has works with his system, ask him about a good sub woofer cable, I said, I do not have exsperience with sub woofer cables, jerry has exsperience with sub cables, cheers.

@ misternice, Hi, Congrats on the onyx cable you have, Do you remember my post on how to use this cable?, go to the post so i will not have to rewrite it, the box does go on the source end, the cable jumpers coming out of the cable on the receiving end plug into each other, the spaded jumper needs to be connected from box to a screw on a componet for ground, the ground scheme makes a huge difference with the sound, Hi pops and Grey9hound!, BTW, I forgot that Grey9hound knows alot about sub woofer cables, misternice, you are in good hands with grey9hound!, pops and Grey9hound are dear friends of mine!, they are a joy to talk to and know what they are doing!, very well seasoned audiophiles to say the least!cheers.

@ misternice, what in the world are you talking about?, The Tara onyx has little wires coming out both ends of the cable!, the source end, and the recieving end, you plug the recieving end into each other, the source end plugs into the hfx grounding station, the ground jumper plugs into the middle hole on the hfx box and then the spaded end of the jumper screws to a componet for ground., thats it!, eany other way is incorrect!

LOL! you have your cables backward!

Misternice, Did you connect the jumper cable with the spade on the end and bananna on the other end to the HFX box?, the spade end goes to a componet, unloosen a screw and put the spade end there, the bananna end plugs to the center hole of the HFX box, Do this, then you will exsperience your cable, then it has to burn-in 300 to 400 hours, let me know if you get these instructions done, cheers.

@ Glory, Hi, That is fine by me, I am happy with what I have!, I am not into having the best!, just what makes my sound good to me, on the bright side of what you are talking about, Taralabs is coming out with a new top of the brand cable between november and march, the zero lasted since 1997!, I find it a joke that its taken other cable manufacturers this long to compete or better Taralabs, I am sure when the new cable from Taralabs is introduced to the world, It will likly send ripples thru out the industry as best available once again, then,another 17 years before the competition can compete again!,, Happy listening!

@ misternice, you are set with your cable, congrats,as you said, let the cable settle in a while, you will be happy with your new found sound!, It will be stunning!, my tunes are on hold, I have all my componets at the factories, late october I will be kicking some tunes out with a brand new Krell fpb 700cx!, this is a time when patience is a virtue!, great tunes happen to those who waite! cheers.

@ Glory, Hi, Can you start a thread about thales I/C, I would like to know the cost, what your impressions of the sound is, and the equipment that you are useing the thales on etc.., formost what the other members of the gon have to say about the thales cables, I looked for a thread, there is none, you should start the thread, I am open minded to learning!, thankyou Glory, cheers,

Misternice, I do not believe the Thales is good as what you bought!, waite till the run in time is up!,I am happy that you like it so far, it gets better as time gos by, thats were I use my cable, between the source, which is my pre, to my amp, Happy listening, keep me posted, cheers.

@ Glory, Ok, whats your point?, this thread has been running very good, enjoyable conversations here, this thread is over when we want it to be!

Misternice, whats up with the cables sound now?

Misternice, Hi, I do go for better recordings, I just started building this system from the ground up, that includes the very few cds I have, I do not have gold ones yet, I never have had one, what are the benefits of that kind of cd?, I am satiesfied that you are enjoying the Taralabs onyx cable, it will get better over time. cheers mate.

@ misternice, what are your impresseions thus far with the onyx before it burns all the way in?,, Happy listening.

@ misternice, thats cool.

Hi misternice, good to see you back, I enjoy talking to you, your cable will even get better than what you hear now, 300 hundred hours to 500 hours for total settlement, I am happy to know you are enjoying what you have spent your hard earned cash on!, Happy Listening.

thankyou.

@ Misternice, Hi, wanted to check with you, Has your cable improved?, what have you been up to?

@ Misternice, Hi great to hear from you, thankyou for the hope, I am still going thru issues with a audio store!, what cds did you order?

which Halestorm cds did you get?

Hi Misternice, I have not got to hear the cabolt power cable yet, my componets are at the factories, the digital player broke, Its fixed, I just have to pay the bill, and the amp renewl is almost payed off, then I will have to re break in all the cables and componets!, the amp alone will take 600 hours!, starting in november, by 4 to 6 months, everything should sound the best I ever owned!, then I will be tunning the digital player with some cones I recently bought, and installing different speaker spikes on my speakers, my sound should turn out to far exceed the sound we are use to listening to, so, is the new Hale storm cd that I have not listened to but a couple of singles of sound as good as the original Hale storm cd?, they are coming in concert here in october, the wife really wants to go!, we may go, depends on money, we have been paying so much for this audio that we are broke and sick and tired of doing so!, when we get everything back, we are going to listen for a while till some time in spring, and start auditioning new digital players,, cheers.

Hi Misternice, Thanks for the hospiltality, Your player sounds like a winner, atleast somebody out there is happy with their digital,I do not know if Halestorm will make it back here, this is the only time they have ever come here to play,,, I will be letting you know what I think of the sound to the cabolt power cord,,cheers.

Hi Misternice, I will take the new Halestorm cd if you do not want it!, The wife would be thrilled to own that, she is a big fan!

@ Misternice, Hi, I sent a E -mail to your personal addresse, Please tell me if you recieved it, sorry It took me so long to reply, I have been busy working and talking to members on the phone, thankyou, cheers.

@ Misternice, well my E-mail did not send to the adresse you provided, I am going to send you an E-mail to your audiogon E-mail site, please check there, I am sure you will recieve that mail, thankyou, cheers.

Thankyou misternice, we are very grateful, I sent you another E-mail, I can send you a cd if you like, its more listenable, its blues and new age music, a burned cd, it turned out to sound good for a high-end system, if you want it its yours, we have the orginal, so its no problem, cheers.

Hi Budburma, How much do the Gabriel gold cables cost?, do they have gold conductors, Is it possible you can post a link to the model you are refering to here so I may study what you are presenting?, Thankyou.

Hi Misternice, I Indeed got your cd off for you, Really would like your impressions of it and the sound quality as well, cheers.

@ Misternice, Hi, Let me know when you recieve your cd I sent you, cheers.

@ misternice, Hi, I recieved the cd you sent us today 9-19-13, thankyou, I have not had the chance to listen to it yet, how does the onyx interconnect sound now?, If you have alot of playing time on the interconnect all this time since you got it, The cable should sound to its fullest potential., cheers.

Ok Misternice, let me know when you do get the cd, and your impressions of the recording quality, and if you like the music as well, Happy listening.

Hi Misternice, Your best cable should be between the pre-amp and the amp, the one would be good between the cd and pre, That surely would save alot of money, the one is a bench mark cable, of course, if you went further up the cable food chain, you would yield better results, really, the one is great for digital to your pre, thats what I would recommend, you got the idea already, go for it, cheers.

Hi misternice, sorry it took so long to get back to you, I am happy you like the cd, does it sound magical on your Tara onyx I/C ???, It should, the recording is good to my ears as it is to yours?, cheers.

Hi Bob, I got the Krell amp back, I have to buy another source, I do not have one at the moment, Going to get another vincent cds7 player, that was a very good musical player!, the funny thing is, it sounds alot better than the players that I have owned that costed three to four times the money,LOL!, I will be getting it together soon enough, I will keep the vincent untill I can or find or listen to something better, most digital so far is crap out there, the ones they say are good are not!, then the ones no one knows about, or even cares about because its not some pedigree brand player sounds hugely better!, cheers.