Learnt something that I'd never heard before (surely not from marketing or sales) during a chat on the phone with the service department at Spectral: the input cable may be thought of as "courtesy of the source component manufacturer's" - in other words, of course Spectral-approved and/or -branded MIT may be used, but if the source component manufacturer has a preference for an interconnect to be used with their equipment, use that.
When I expressed my surprise, I was told the requirement is to use a Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT loudspeaker cable with a Spectral power amp as a matter of course, as well as a Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT interconnect between a Spectral preamp and power amp, but that unless the source component were e.g. a Spectral CD player, one could use any interconnect on the input side of a Spectral preamp one liked.
Experience has taught me not to believe much in "mixing and matching" (exceptions apply, other than that, simple combinatorics), thus figured it would be best to use the same Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT interconnect on the preamp's input side as from its output to the power amp.
Now wondering, of course, who does this (i.e. use something else on their Spectral preamp's input side), and what are your findings? Experiences?
Greetings from Switzerland, David.
When I expressed my surprise, I was told the requirement is to use a Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT loudspeaker cable with a Spectral power amp as a matter of course, as well as a Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT interconnect between a Spectral preamp and power amp, but that unless the source component were e.g. a Spectral CD player, one could use any interconnect on the input side of a Spectral preamp one liked.
Experience has taught me not to believe much in "mixing and matching" (exceptions apply, other than that, simple combinatorics), thus figured it would be best to use the same Spectral-approved/-brandend MIT interconnect on the preamp's input side as from its output to the power amp.
Now wondering, of course, who does this (i.e. use something else on their Spectral preamp's input side), and what are your findings? Experiences?
Greetings from Switzerland, David.