PAD Venustas

06-08-06: Thomasheisig
I have the chance to listen to the Venustas in my own System, and I agree with Boa2. It is soft in the high frequencies, all I can say, I miss with that cable lots of information which is there. Has nothing to do with an agressive high frequeny area, but some information is just not "there" in the way it should ( IMHO).

I agree with the Venustas being soft in the highs.

Aqueous Anniversary will give you all the information that's there...and so will a host of other cables. IMO, Aqueous Anniversary are excellent interconnects, but they do not possess the magic of the Venustas...which is due to some coloration...and is why I use a pair of each.

I use Venustas speaker cables and do not feel they are missing anything at all in the highs. They simply do not emphasize the highs as some cables do, creating the aural illusion of greater range and transparency. One man's opinion and experience. Have not heard the Anniv. Aqueous so cannot comment on them.

Neal

A recent converastion with a big time Purist dealer commented that there are very few Venustus cables being sold. Most sales are going towards the Aqueuos.
For what that is worth.

06-09-06: Ozzy
A recent converastion with a big time Purist dealer commented that there are very few Venustus cables being sold. Most sales are going towards the Aqueuos.

That could mean buyers gravitating toward the newest thing. It could mean dealers encouraging one over the other. It could mean people not buying Venustas because of what they read on the internet without actually trying them. Or, it could simply mean more people like Aqueous than Venustas.

My real world experience is that friends who use PAD interconnects in tubed and solid state systems prefer a combination of Venustas and Aqueous, and the division is pretty much 50/50 between the two models.

I agree that the newest cable is probably getting the attention.
But,I have been trying really hard to audition a Veustus bi-wire set of speaker cables.
No dealer so far has them to audition, and has no plans to obtain them.