Pure Note Paragon vs. Kimber Select

I have owned a number of silver cabling including the Kimber 1030 Select, Ridge Street Audio MSE II and Poiema!!, Acoustic Zen Silver Reference, Empirical Audio Holophonic PC and now the Revelation Audio Paradise. The Kimbers are fine neutral cables, however in my system they were distorted in the upper mids (or perhaps revealed distortion from another component). In any case, they were not a good value. The Ridge Street Poiema !! had terrific balance, but were slightly...and I mean slightly...soft in the highs. At this juncture, the Revelation Audio interconnects are the finest I've heard in my system, and the best value in silver that I've owned. That said about silver, I'm beginning to think I prefer the slightly warmer characteristics of copper. But this is evolutionary in my system and far from being definitive.

I am very keen on the Jena Symphonies when it comes to copper, but I have not had them in my system long enough and tried it in my other system yet to make more definitive comments. But it appears to work better for me than the Kimber 1130 or the Quattro Fil.

At less than half the price I like the Luminous Synchestra Reference ICs. They do almost everything right except for the level of resolution that the Jena, Kimber, Quattro have, and I liked them better than the Poiema, as did a couple of my buddies.

I can't comment on the Kimbers since I've never auditioned them. I'm quite familiar with Pure Note and my review of the Paragon I/Cs should be up in a couple of hours.

Jose21

I am wondering if you have used the Cerulean previously? I have the Cerulean and would love to know how the Paragon improves on the previous model, and if it is worth upgrading.

thanks

Raymond,
Check out my review of the Paragon cables in the cable section of the product reviews

Jose.