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I'm now a Cardas Woman. I used to be a Kimber gal

Well i was interested in the new Cardas Parsec. I bought one and went WOW! What have i been missing!
So then I bought another.. then went for the big one (seven meter pre to amp, big bucks)
Added a few more. Bought a used Golden Reference here to have for a tease..
So I went from Kimber all around to Cardas.
I liked Kimber, used them for-ever.. Nice, but this new Cardas Parsec has me. (Kimber has some catching up to do guys..) The Cardas is just more 'natural'.

This is like changing auto brand: Lifetime loyal BMW owner.. years of Beemers.. suddenly buys a Porshe! And LOVES it.

Some of them are still in shipment from Cardas. I am just so excited.
elizabeth
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audiolabyrinth
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@ Elizabeth, 10% cost rule for cables to system cost, That's crazy!, Try that the other way around!, works hugely better!, I have never, ever, regreted doing so!, For crying out loud!, cables are as, or more important than the componets them selfs!, I have done many test regarding this, I have even used a $300.00 yamaha cd/player with high performance cables that were not cheap by any means, beat out multi-thousand dollar componets with inferrior cables by a whole, whole lot in performance!, I did this test in front of 15 people, you should have seen the shock look on their faces, they went from laughing, to me laughing!
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geoffkait
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Did you try it both ways?
whitecap
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Wait, Elizabeth, I am confused. You were all aflutter about the new cables, and indeed this is such a pleasant and upbeat thread. Now you're getting a divorce and returning to Hero on the 7 meter run? What happened? Did I miss something?
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audiolabyrinth
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Hi Geoffkait, yes I did try it both ways, of course this will not happen to all cable brands, However, this true story happend when useing some Taralabs cables back in the late 90s at a store in columbus, OH called proggresive audio, in those years this store sold top equipment, the store has went thru ownerships since then, they do not carry top performance two channel equipment any more, sad, the store was directly across the Ohio State campus, columbus was a great place to visit, I enjoyed my time there.
schubert
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Kimber story.
As I'm sure many of you have, I sent in my system details into
the Cable Co. for their advice on SC for my new Totem Speakers.

E-mail came back recommending Audience, Purist Audio ,Harmonic Tech and Kimber. I called the guy listed on the email.

We talked a while about this and that on the merits of the various cables.
After a while I threw in the fact that 90% of my listening is to Classical Music, The guy halted in mid-sentence and said OH, you want Kimber then, best copper in the business !
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