Thanks guys. The speaker cables are really great. Eli - the cables have seen two previous owners over a number of years so I assume they have been fully run in. I haven't really noticed a change in sound after they had settled into the system... they are continuing to impress as I flip through different music in my library.
I had been looking into a pair of royal sig interconnects concurrent to the speaker cable search, when I realized what the speaker cables did to my system I knew the interconnects had to become a reality. At this same time the seller I was in contact with had offered a lowered price making them a bargain too good to pass up. Not a difficult decision then, Friday night I added a pair or Royal Signature Snow Lake G5 SATT 1m XLR interconnects to the system... no messing around here
. These cables were a pair used by the distributor for dealer demo's so they had seen almost no use and are not at all broken in yet. These cables have been somewhat evolving over the weekend as I have left the system on 24/7. Two system changes within 4 days so it's hard to single out what is happening. The IC's replaced a pair of Chord Chorus XLR's which are a heavy gauge copper design. The cable was an improvement off the bat, I was getting increased resolution and clarity however found instruments and sounds in the midrange and above to be somewhat over-defined, not sure how to describe it. As the cable has been evolving it has started to 'smooth out' in this regard and is heading in the right direction which to my ears is converging to a more accurate sound. From a quick google search and in talking with the distributor this is how the cables are said to evolve over the first 300 or so hours. In the meantime I will leave my DAC playing at full volume 24/7 with the power amp switched off, I understand this is driving voltage and current through the cable even though the power amp in switched off.
I'll check back in a few weeks time after the system has settled down to its final position.
I had been looking into a pair of royal sig interconnects concurrent to the speaker cable search, when I realized what the speaker cables did to my system I knew the interconnects had to become a reality. At this same time the seller I was in contact with had offered a lowered price making them a bargain too good to pass up. Not a difficult decision then, Friday night I added a pair or Royal Signature Snow Lake G5 SATT 1m XLR interconnects to the system... no messing around here
. These cables were a pair used by the distributor for dealer demo's so they had seen almost no use and are not at all broken in yet. These cables have been somewhat evolving over the weekend as I have left the system on 24/7. Two system changes within 4 days so it's hard to single out what is happening. The IC's replaced a pair of Chord Chorus XLR's which are a heavy gauge copper design. The cable was an improvement off the bat, I was getting increased resolution and clarity however found instruments and sounds in the midrange and above to be somewhat over-defined, not sure how to describe it. As the cable has been evolving it has started to 'smooth out' in this regard and is heading in the right direction which to my ears is converging to a more accurate sound. From a quick google search and in talking with the distributor this is how the cables are said to evolve over the first 300 or so hours. In the meantime I will leave my DAC playing at full volume 24/7 with the power amp switched off, I understand this is driving voltage and current through the cable even though the power amp in switched off.I'll check back in a few weeks time after the system has settled down to its final position.
