Homegrown or Mapleshade

Try the Homegrown silver lace. Free 30 day trial. Haven't compared, but the silver lace sound great.

I was pretty hooked on Homegrown until I heard the Clearview. There is a obvious, pronounced increase in clarity with the Clearview. In addition, dynamics and pace are increased. However, you may not like the crystal clear view that the Mapleshade gives you. Do not underestimate the transformation that can take place with Mapleshade. But I am a bit cautious to be giving a recommendation for the Mapleshade since they have an apparently fragile (I am not going to test the jacket, you know what I mean if you have ever seen them) and the fact that the HomeGrown still works better in some areas of my system. Cables have long been referred to as Passive Tone Controls and all of us have our tastes but what really blew me away as to they made major improvements in a lower end second system of mine. I am currently breaking in some Silver Lace. So far the Mapleshade wins in speed, clarity, removes a good bit of the somewhat bloated bass from my B&W 801 s3 and great 3D space (really great and that is compared to some of the best in this area including Magnan Vi and Nirvana SL) but the Silver Lace has more bottom end. The Mapleshade's extended high end can be a bit much at high volumes but I think what is happening is that flaws in the recording is coming through. But I will reserve final opinions after a 100 hr breakend. Both companies produce some of, if not the most, high value in audio cables.

Nanderson: Which model of Clearview are you using, the Ultrathin or the Double Helix? I am using the Double Helix digital IC in combination with Homegrown Super Silver analog IC's right now (sounds good) and am considering going to all Mapleshade eventually. First I will need to shorten my speaker cable runs. I will be ordering one of the Mapleshade PC's to try out on my DAC in the meantime.

Hello:i just replaced my older intc's and power cords with mapleshade double helix at $240 and power cord at $150,both
are the best value/performance i've ever had in my system,actually they replaced synergistic research designers reference intc's and black mambas power cords,i needed 5 p/cords and there was no way i was going to pay thousands of $$ on them,so i gave mapleshade a try and was stunned at the quality(very,very neutral),sold my mambas and bought the mapleshades,my decission was not only based on the value side but in quality aswell,they're that good,i personally like what i have now much better than what i had before,my humble opinion is that you really don't need to spend more $$,hope this helps,Al.

Hi Dekay, I am using Clearview Ultrathin. I initially got them (used) just for a lower end system upstairs. I was shocked at the increase in clarity. I run two identical tuners through this system so I was able to a/b them with a click of the source switch. I was not about to take a sub-$100 seriously. But I thought I got rid of my Kimber KCAG for the Super Silvers so why not. I hooked up the Ultrathin on my DAC and was quite shocked at the clarity. I plan on trying the double helix soon. The area I am concerned with the Ultrathins is the apparent shift toward mids and highs, bass is tight and faster but leaner. The Homegrown silvers both Super Silvers and Silver Lace have a less pronounced affect on a particular part of the freq range. I am little scared of getting of going Mapleshade all around for fear of too zippy a high end. But for others that have not hear the Mapleshades rest assured you will likely hear far more detail with these than most any other cables. DeKay what is the rest of your system the majority of system includes B&W 801 series 3 (AP Silver Ovals), Threshold SA4E (PS Audio Lab Cable Power Cord), Audio Research LS3B, Monarchy Dip 24/96, Monolithic Sound Outboard Power Supply for a Link DAC II (Synergistic Research AC Master Coupler to Power Supply), KEF 200c Center Channel (HT Pro 11+ cabling) power by Myryad T60 Power Amp (Silver Lace Interconnect and HT Pro AC PC, Lineaum rears powered by Rotel RB981 with generic 12 guage flat cable (big room 28 feet long, have not decided on what to do with cabling for so long a distance for the rear channels), Audio Reseach SPD1 Surround Processor connected to Threshold with Magnan Vi Balanced ICs and Audiolab 8000t, Aragon 2T4, Roksan Caspian, Pioneer Elite F-93, and Rotel RHT-10 tuners and Toshiba 32" TV hooked up to MSB Upsamling Analog to Digital Converter (again with Monolithic Sound Outboard Power Supply) passed to 24/26 DIP, Pioneer Elite PD-65 used as Transport with coaxial digital first passed to 24/96 DIP (there is more but getting tired of writing).