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

Will do Bif.be 10 days or so.

Well I am pretty happy with the majority of the Cardas Parsec. All the one meter are nice. Just the 7m is giving me problems which is said to be break in. Well over with three weeks of all day playing the 7m is not doing it.
I am buying the Kimber wire (which i find out is not current Hero wire, but KS1111 wire (all the better)
And i will see if the Kimber is gonna be good in a few days. If so I think the 7m goes back. Like I wrote, the rest of the Parsec are exactly waht I wanted.

As for the complaint Kimber has a variety of copper.. So what? if you cannot handle the wording,, go back and use the $10 ones you can buy at Builder's Square.. they have all sorts of IC available for dirt cheap. I promise none of those will have ultrapure copper.

Elizabeth, as a former Kimberette, do you think 12TC is generally a worthwhile upgrade over 8Tc ?
And/or , what is the "sweet spot" in the Kimber SC line-up?

Can you tells us what components make up your audio system??

Where does the "new" Parsec IC fall in the Cardas price schedule??

Also what speaker cable do you currently use?? Kimber cable or Cardas???

I am also interested in your answer to Schubert's inquiry whether the 12TC speaker cable is or is not a worthwhile upgrade from the venerable 8TC??

I have no answer as to 12TC over 8TC. i currently use two pair of 8TC (one run clear white on mid/tweets, other one blue black on bass) to biwire my 3.6 magnepans. I almost bought a pair of 12TC, but since I had the 8TC blue black, i decided to just ADD a pair of 8TC clear/white for the biwire.

The Parsec are the 'budget' Cardas. and the lowest priced Cardas than offer the 'signal propagation' feature.
PS the Parsec price is going up or has just gone up depending where you shop.. From $330 a meter to $368 1m pair.
IMO the cheaper not Teflon Kimber are a waste of money. Go for the 4TC or 8TC or 12 TC