Alpha Core MI2 vs Audience AU24 speaker cable


I must choose one of these between MI2 and AU24 speaker cable in my car audio sytem.

Please adivse the advantages and disadvantages between the two cables. At the moment I am using Furugawa S-1 Speaker cable and plan to upgrade cables
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Here is my car audio system,

1. CD Player, Nacamichi TP-1200 ltd + 100 cdc + 100 dac
2. Speaker, Rainbow Raference 2 way + Velodyne 12" Sub
3. Amp, Zium Z-8100(New model made in Korea and won all Korea IASCA competition 2004)
4. Interconnector, Tara labs The One, Cardas Golden reference, AU 24, Nirvana SX
5. Speaker cable, Furugawa S-1

Thank you,
guys...nice car setup.. mind if i ask a car audio question ?

current setup:
eclipse balanced head unit 8053 -preamp only and blalanced
dynaudio seperates gt240's
zapco ref 350 mono blocks for front seperates
jl 500/1 for sub amp
image dynamic idq's ( very musical sub )..

here is the question regarding the ic's and the zapco symbalink....

should i run the symbalink ic longer and use a short interconnect from the deck or run a longer interconnect and a short symbilink to the zapco.

youe help would be appreciated.

thank you,

mike

Mike,

I am not too familiar with the symbilink since i have not installed one before. However, it must be some type of connection with a higher voltage out (line driver) plus the advantage of having the merits of a balanced connection. This is very similar to those Denon units and the recent ones Rockford commissioned Denon to make the rfx8250's . Obviously a design intended to make best of the transmission of delicate low level distance accross a longer lenght, in car audio situations.
Experimentation is still key here> Funny , that installers used to learn a lot from "very adventurous car audio enthusiasts" Who are willing to gamble.

I would like to share another experience though.

IT is called spreading the cost relative to using cables.
If there were no budgetary constraints, I would suggest a throughout interconnect change from, head unit down to the amps, and anything in between; line drivers, crossovers and active eq's. Sometimes , when home audio cables are used, its cost can easily match every other equipment that was installed and the owner would surely not understand and protest. SO this is the option. The most critical part is the last line that goes to the amps. Say if you had a crossover(active), this is where the BEST cable you can get hold on gets into. Then the rest of the budget goes upstream.

From logic, conventional thinking would say, IT defeats the purpose as the upstream cabling is compromised. NO, it is not. Again, I have tried it, and it should work in your case.

Conventional thinking will say: car audio cables are built for the purpose and should be better at screening than home audio cables,NO not again. Cables like Sonic Link Vermillion, transparent link 100, qed qnex2, sonic link pink are better sounding than the best in the catalogue of Phoenix Gold, Esoteric audio or the RFosgte's . ( the acceptable ones (car audio are only stinger).



These are both great cables. I like Sean's analysis of the situation. Aren't the AU24 substantially more expensive than the Goertz copper line?

As for Dan's question, my own experience many years ago was that it was worthwhile to build an expensive high quality car audio system because of the intimacy of the environment. This seemed to over-ride the issues of road noise and impossibility of imaging. For me, I end up using my time in the car to catch up on radio news or phone calls, so it would not be worthwhile for me, but might for others.

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