Cardas: Cross vs. Reference and Clear

Thanks, stringreen. As you might guess, I've found Cardas a good match in my system, although I do hear them as being less transparent than some competitors.

A friend has been using Cross for years. He recently added a pair of Clear Light.  In direct comparison, he reports that Light maybe sounds a little louder at the same volume, with maybe more detail in the upper frequencies, but that they are very close overall. His system is solid state, as is mine. 

My experience with Cross and Clear (M) has been limited to the power cords in my own system. 

Cross was a mainstay in the Cardas lineup for nearly 20 years if I'm not mistaken. Altough Quadlink was replaced by Parsec, as yet, there is no direct replacement for Cross in the new lineup. I find that curious.

I have owned the Quad Link, Cross, and Golden Cross RCA IC and speaker cables.

Cardas's reference speakers at the time were Magnepan IIIA's and Tympani's.

The Golden Cross Speaker Cables work great with with my Magnepan 3.6's.

I use the Golden Cross iC from arm to phono stage, and is sounds the best ever, after trying many brands of ICs.

I found the Cross as a good RCA IC but I now use PRO Carare Star Quad XLRs with XLR outputs to inputs.  

All the cardas cables had very long (~200 hour) break in before they sounded their best.

They all had the old Cardas "house" sound - Warm mids, deep full bass, extends high frequencies, big sound stage. 

Cables are always dependent on what equipment they are connected to IMO. YMMV.

Really Stringreen ....do you just have nothing else to do but troll Cardas threads and tell everybody once again .... about how much you don't like Cardas and how they didn't work in your system ??? Don't you get tired of writing that ? I do not like Vandersteen speakers, never have but you don't see me posting that on evey speaker thread. Sensibility prevails.  Please give it a break and besides that you haven't even listened to their newer Clear line of cables. Post some threads or points of view once you have listened to their new iteration of cables. Then you may have some credibility.   

It is well know he doesn't care for cardas!  For sure!!!

........there are some here you are '' self processed '' know it all's. This member has not even listened to the new line of Cardas Clear  which really are good cables in certain systems. This person continues to give the same old ( bad ) advice instead of just shutting up and not trolling cable threads and or take the time to listen to the new line in order to give someone advice that is more specific and more helpful as opposed to ;  '' Cardas never sounded good in my system '' Never liked Vandersteen speakers, but I don't just throw that in on very speaker thread. The guy is a real tool here