Echole vs Argento vs Kubala-Sosna?

Bvdiman Siltech G7 Royal Signature experience mirror to what I heard. Its very hard to not impressed by its performance. I also have audition Argento Flow, they have very different sonic palette and not as the same tier than G7. The Dutch cable is really complete sounding.

Sebastian, I will have to agree with you also in that Argento do have this rather 'different sonic palette'. I've known and used for a while actually, the Argento cables from way back 15-16 years ago. Looked similar (pearlish white) but with 6 or 8 (forgot) individually insulated soft strands intertwined loosely per side for their speaker cables. Can't remember name, but it was their top cable then. Smooth, mellow, relaxing but rather vague--were what I remembered them to be. Good match with digital stuff during that period.

I swapped them for the flat Siltech FT12 then which I felt to offer greater palpability ie. denser, more solid, organic and life-like timbre with much better control down low and everywhere else. Of course they have both come a long way since then, but I believe/hear designers from both brands still kept consistent with their ideal sound goal/design approach until today, albeit both much improved--you just cannot mistake one from the other.

Maybe the 6moons review below can better express and give a glimpse of what I too felt during my recent speaker cable comparison between the Argento FMR and Siltech King, which to a certain extent--rather similar.

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/argento/flow.html

HI Samfreeman.
About 8 months ago i tested the Argento: Flow ic against the Echole Obsession 2009. I my set up which i would say is a very ballanced ultra highend ½ tube setup, i felt that dispite the high qualities of the Flow, it wasent as transparent and organic as the Obsession. The Flow was more forgiven to bad recordings but had a thin carpet effect and a lack of mickrodetails compared to the ultra quick and dynamic Obsession. My conclusion was, that in my set up the Flow was simply to tame and the Obsession just right.
On the speakercable side, i also compared the Obsession 2009 with a older Argento as well as Purist Audio: Dominus rev c ferrox / Protius provectus and Kondo ( top of line). None of them could deliver the magic of the Obsession. I do however think that the set up must be without any sharpness or edges because nothing is camuflaged. Maybee this is what somebody would call unmusical but my setup has the musicallity, clearness and transparent without any fatigue so i can allow to use a very open cable .The Obsession also defines the images superb, is very coherent and gives a lot of space around the musicians, you could call this lean but i feel its more autentic compared to real live music and maybee a ballanced match to the rest of my chain.
I think its obvious that i still love the Obsession and it replaced the Transparent: Opus 1. Good luck finding the right cable to your set up.

I have Elation and exchanged with my friend to get Echole for few days.
This few days I miss my Elations very much as Echole can't sound even close to Elation. This is about interconnects and speaker cables.
Power cords best is Argento FMR, than Echole and last is Elation.
I had them in my system.
Interesting to compare Elation ic and speaker cables with Argento FMR.
I'm using Elation and interesting if something can be better.

Hello,

Strange that systems can be so different reacting on cables. I found in my system that the Echole Obsession 2009 sounded superior to the Argento Flow and Kubala-Sosna Elation. With the use of Echole Obsession 2009 I am not listening to cables anymore, and the speakers do really disappear in the listening room. The music is really organic, dynamic and the best mid-range I ever experienced. I changed my PranaWire Cosmos cables with Echole Obsession 2009, and my system is even sounding better (by a small margin but to be honest, well worth it)

I have had a complete set of Kubala, Argento, PranaWire and Stealth cables in my set, and didn't mix the brands to get to most out of it. Ones I compared the Stealth Dream Digital on the dCS Puccini cd-player, but the Echole was much better in every aspect (the Stealth was sounding thinner, and lacking mid-range and body) But if there is a synergy in the philosophy of the cable manufacturers, I found that a complete set of Echole Obsession did it for me.

I am a friend of a dealer of Kubala-Sosna, Argento, Echole, and Stealth so I will borrow some cables and try to mix them, and see if this is giving a better result.... The PranaWire I already sold, so I can't compare that one anymore.

Regards,

Countguarneri