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

Did you try it both ways?

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?

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.

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 !

Hey Schubert, I'm being a little "tongue-in-cheek" when I post this comment, but I own Kimber Heros I/Cs and 8PR speaker cables. I find the whole cable business confusing and potentially quite expensive.

FWIW, there was a cable discussion running in another OP and Kimber cables came up. The discussion addressed the connection between published specs and the acoustic impact of various cable brands. Which is why I bring it up here on the heels of your comment that if "you want Kimber then, [it's the] best copper in the business!"

What you say may be true, but as far as their speaker cable line-up is concerned, they run 3 or 4 grades of copper cables. My cables, the 8PRs, are "pure" copper. Then next higher up grade is "hyper" pure and the top grade is "ultra" pure. Oh ... I'm not even talking about their "Select" grade. Yet ... when I checked Kimber's published specs, the impedance differences between the various grades was imperceptibly small. I have no intention of buying Kimber's hyper or ultra pure offerings to just find out that its all "hype." :(

My point ... I'm not sure I have a point. But as I first mentioned above, this whole cable business is confusing and potentially "hyper, ultra" expensive.

:-)