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

Elizabeth, see my thread asking about plugging high end PCs into a wall socket or a power line conditioner, and the last response

To NoNoise: I am about to venture on a voyage of discovery with Darwin, not Charles, BUT a Darwin IC: the Darwin Silver Plus( the next in line after the original) Tony Bender PROMISED A "PEACE OF Mind" return policy should the voyage of discovery turn into a Carnival Cruise

I believe you mentioned the Darwin IC product on this thread, or my PC thread. Nevertheless, if you own one let us know your impressions of it.

I happened to take stock of my IC's, including the newest which was a Red Dawn Flatwire. It sounded OK with the Rega Apollo. The other( past) stars, Audio Magic Spellcaster II, and Synergistic Research Alpha Sterling have lost their mesmerizing power, and luster, and will be sent to the IC boneyard at the back of the closet, or Used Cable.com

Unless there was a barometric anomaly yesterday causing my eardrums to collapse, these older IC's sounded nasty. The Red Dawn held its own, but was generally unremarkable.

i recently got some 12tc for my vandersteen 2ce sig II, krell s300i. they were just what i was looking for, more "air" (detail), instruments are more defined in space and easily discernible in sound and location (as far as they can be in my speaker/amp setup). all more 3 dimensional. i swear the sound stage moved up - based on many listenings of bethoven's 9th before and after (telarc cd). i didn't get any fancy connectors, MN3 i believe is what they are called, little spades on both ends. they st them up for bi-wire with 8 strands for low freq. and 4 for highs.

yeah there's better and there's different but based on what i read and what i've heard in the distant past, i find them to be just what i was looking for.