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KCI Pure Gold and the benefits

Hi Guys just wanted to share my new love for the majic of pure gold interconnects. Ive been through the paces of tring different mid to high grade interconnects in my system and finally tried pure gold. Now the price does vary significantly from pure gold cable to pure gold cable, I picked up the KCI and have really loved what gold did for my modest system compared to pure silver, flat ribbon and tons of different copper. I have read the white papers about silver being a better conductor and even some on why gold is more pleasing to the ear. I feel that gold is more coherent top to bottom than silver but noticed many of my audio friends are using silver still. What is the general feeling and use here amongst guys with the high end of equipment? Are you using gold and does it get even better with higher end equipment?
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rx8man
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I tried well over a dozen top digital cables in my rig, the last one being a Virtual Dynamics Revelation Sig.

It sounded fantastic, but the strain on my RCA jacks was too much, I had to support the bottom of the cable off the floor to help alleviate the strain to some effect.

Along comes John's lightweight digital cable, a solid gold feed and solid silver return with WBT platinum locking RCAs, my transport and dac thanked me.

The sound is even BETTER than my previous reference, quieter, smoother and still retaining all the great attributes the V.D. is famous for, I'm done.
arthursmuck
447 posts
 
I have someone coming by this weekend with a Benchmark DAC and John was kind enough to send us one of the Silkworm digitals to listen to, I'll report back on what we hear but won't have a basis for comparison recently as I'm typically running a one-box solution....
arthursmuck
447 posts
 
Jim - did you ever get your Firefly? Curious as to your thoughts....
kbuzz
201 posts
 
Rx8man- in order to get some kind of baseline can you give us some info on the other digi coax's you tried
donpark1439
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i don't hear it ? i bought a pair used from someone who was looking to sell his.he thought they make work well in my set-up.i found them to sound thin and colored lacking realistic body and weight.the sound is warm but veiled.the design seems simple enough and build quality is on the flimsy diy side i can see where these might work in a bright systems but not for me.I put some transparents back in and my set-up it was no contest.goes to show you how systems differ
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