Sakura Systems OTA Cable Kit

Try twisting them lightly Dekay. I find that untwisted, they sound a bit like the Magnan cables, albeit with much better PRAT than the Magnans. I think my cables are pretty much run in now, and I found that images were a bit "wafty" as a friend of mine puts it. Not quite "there". Till I tried a light twist, and images becaome more solid, giving me the same solidity as I get with my other cables, but with all the PRAT, clean transients, expanded soundstage and lack of grain still intact.

Redkiwi: Thanks, I will give this a try in couple of weeks when the fresh pair of IC's break in. I am going to break them in with daily music as you did. I need to get the spare bedroom system setup again (with the SS amp and the CDR) for my godson to use when he visits us (along with a parental filter on the computer:-).

Guys, I'll read this entire post tomorrow. Dekay, thanks for the tip I am always interested in new ideas!

Caterham makes a suggestion, Redkiwi and Decay do all the homework and brulee tags along for the ride. Thanks to all three of you. I love being in this company.
I can't add much because these 3 have said it all so well.
I was loaned the Kimber top of the line speaker cable and IC which retails near $9000. I thought this stuff was very good. Damn well should be! I owned the Quattro Fil ICs and wondered what all the fuss was about. I bought the Coincident speakers a couple of years ago and thought I would try there wire. I did not think it was better than the Kimber 1030 but in some ways I preferred it. Then I heard the FIM speaker cable and thought I was Through looking for speaker cable. I then got hold of some Venture ICs that I was thinking of putting in my system but when I was told that retail was $3500 all of a sudden the Coincident was good enough. Then I saw Caterham talking about the OTA kit and then came along Redkiwi's thread. I asked Dekay if he would like to go in half on the OTA kit and he agreed. When I received my half I had to laugh. It looks like 10lb test fishing line. Redkiwi and Caterham must have lost it somewhere along the line. Sorry guys, I should know better.
The first thing I noticed was all my other ICs would cause congestion or what Redkiwi calls smear. This lack of smearing is what seperates this IC from all others I have heard. A week later I put the OTA speaker cable in after a 100 hours of break-in. I have been using the very fine FIM Gold and Coincident Total Reference speaker cable. I go back and forth between these two. I installed the OTA speaker cable if you can call this stuff a cable. Fishing line is more like it. What a synergy! Just because I was taken for a ride on the merry go round wire game don't mean you have to. Thanks Caterham, Redkiwi and Dekay. I have never been more happy with my system.
When I go to sell my other wires what should I say as to why I'm selling? Because I like this cheap looking, whimpy, unmanly, skinny fishing line better? How about the old down sizeing routine. No more wire games for me. I'm done. Don't need to listen to any more wire. I'm through. I wonder what this stuff sounds like in silver or gold or silver and gold or

Bruce, it's good to have your endorsement of the product. I wired up a friends system (speaker wire only) with the extra cable that I had and he asked last week if he could run it for another month (which means that I won't be getting it back:-). When I get back to work, I will pick up another OTA kit to do the spare and bedroom systems and would have needed more RCA's and cable anyway (the runs are a bit long and I did not calculate them properly in the first place). I did a quick test on the spare room system and even on cheap (speakers) the OTA made a big improvement in the sound (much more enjoyable), so I will want to use it in both of the bedrooms. Neither of these systems are really Hi-fi but if I can make them sound better for $300 each then it's worth it to me.