Purist Proteus Provectus tonearm cable.

Hit the painful point, Sirspeedy ! I knew that my speakers where rolled off in high frequencies and that Magico Mini are a solution to this, so if Venustas are awesome on your friend system, I just have to sell my car to buy them !!!

Well, my Purist Proteus Provectus Tonearm Cable showed up via fed ex yesterday afteroon. 24 hours of burn in via cd (special lil adaptor, rca=>din makes this easy). Used about 12 hours of Purist burn in cd and 12 hours of misc cd music.

Listening to it right now. The cable is NOT fully burned in, I know I have about 100-200 more hours at least.

And remember, I LOVED my Purist Venustas Tonearm cable. I had a entire system wired with Transparent Ref w XL. And a Hovland Music groove about 4-5 years ago. My first piece of Purist wire was the Venustas Tonearm cable. That one piece of wire caused me to flip all my Transparent cable and fully wire my system with Purist. I now have all 20th Anniversary power cords, 20th Anniv/Dominus Ferrox/Opis interconnect, and Dominus (octerita sp?) Ferrox speaker cables. The Venustas tonearm cable stayed for the whole journey.

Until yesterday...

My my. And I know I have (a lot) more burn in/improvement to go. It's like I got rid of distortion I never knew I had. And the spacial presentation you can sense the movement(much more real). And dynamics...

Stay tuned, maybe give me about 2-3 more weeks to report more...

There is NOTHING wrong with the Venustas tonearm cable it is still wonderful. But for more money....

...just my observation.... Purist cables have a fake sound. They are very "delicious"... great big soundstage (whether the recording was recorded that way or not).. rolled off highs, a kind of phasey sound, etc. It reminds me of how cartoons look on hi-def tv's.. lots of bam, but not real.

With great products it is often a love or hate story. I love Purist, the sound they make puts a smile on my face and toe tapping. I enjoy more the music and that's what this whole passion is about. And I feel it is closer to real performance than any other cable. Matter of taste, anyway...
Jfrech, your first impressions seem to be very positive, and I am sure that upgrading from Venustas to Proteus must be as big improvement as upgrading from a very good cartridge to a top flight cartridge. I am very impatient to read your objective report after cable burnin ( approx 150 hours ).

Cables are system and listener dependent.

Big name/high price wires don't necessarily work for everybody.

This seems to be satisfactorily documented as inexpensive cables, e.g. Anti Cables, Signal Cable, etc., appear to work quite well in lower cost systems and/or when users have yet to develop more sophisticated listening skills.

Bottom line is buy/use what pleases your ears and to hell with what anybody else thinks.

Use the money not spent on expensive/big name cables for an HD television and some cartoon DVD's.