Purist or Kubala-which to buy for entire system

08-12-06: Ozzy
According to Jim Aud at Purist, the cords are designed(voiced) to the different types of equipment used through out the World. The Japanese equipment is more upper range, midrange, the US equipment is more bass heavy.

08-12-06: Ozzy
I did not mean that the cords were designed (voiced) for bass heavy, just that equipment and preferenecs in sound seems to be different in different in other parts of the world. The cords are made for that variety of equipment.

I don't see the difference in these two statements...

If the cords are voiced for different types of equipment throughout the world, and if Japanese equipment emphasizes upper midrange (according to Purist Audio), and US gear emphasizes bass, then it follows that Purist cords manufactured for the US market would be designed to take into consideration the bass emphasis of US gear...just as the Purist cords for the Japanese market would be designed with consideration of the upper midgrange emphasized Japanese gear.

Man, this is one thread where I'm having a difficult time determining what everybody means! Am I in the Twilight Zone? Please, somebody slap me and wake me up.

I throw the ball to who. Whoever it is drops the ball and the guy runs to second. Who picks up the ball and throws it to What. What throws it to I Don't Know. I Don't Know throws it back to Tomorrow, Triple play. Another guy gets up and hits a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don't know! He's on third and I don't give a darn!

As far as I know, all Purist cables marked Dominus or Dominus Ferox (and no other designation) are USA cables.

ALL Purist Aqueous Anniversary and ALL Purist Anniversary cables are identical, regardless of where in the world they are sold. There have been special runs of cables for Germany and Japan (and probably other places in the world).

In Japan one interconnect was called Primus and in Germany one AC cable was named Auctorita. Primus is basically Dominus Ferox with special conductors and restricted sales to Japan. When a person in Japan hears this cable and wants it, they cannot purchase it in the USA because it's not sold here.

Auctorita, same story, Dominus with special conductors, sold only in Europe. I think sold only in Germany but perhaps that distributor has market nearby countries as well.

All Purist cables are built to the same quality standard and all work anywhere in the world. Sound differences are primarily due to how high end that local market is, meaning Germany or Japan may have audiophiles willing to buy higher end (more evolved) product before the USA is willing to pay for it.

There are entire window displays dedicated to Purist cables in Japan. They love Purist and (at least in the past) one distributor purchased greater dollar amount of cables for his dealers than the entire US market combined.

Any wonder they have their own version?

I am still curious what qualities that Steve liked in the Kubala interconnects, and how they compared to the Purist.

This tangent has been very entertaining and enlightening, but has not helped with the original question that Steve asked, and others of us are wondering about.

Does anyone have personal experience with these two sets of cables? Would you be willing to offer your experience?

Thanks,

Mark