In Reply to: Stealth Indra posted by Jon L on May 5, 2004 at 20:16:32:
I love this piece of audio journalism - it is a classic.> > somehow got his hands on a limited supply of Russian conductor with military or space research origins.
I'm sure.
> > In still molten form, this conductor's advanced metal alloy composition had undergone elaborate centrifugal spinning and subsequent exposure to cryogenic-type extreme subzero temperatures, to be shocked into shape so rapidly as to completely undermine the usual formation of crystal boundaries.
Snake oil. It won't be very long before someone figures out what the wire really is and where it comes from, and its real cost.
> > We're talking no molecular boundaries, no so-called long-grain "zero crystal" commercial copper or silver variants.
We're talking no boundries to the B.S. these guys come up with.
> > In one fell swoop, the Indra changed the entire gestalt of the presentation in such a way as to be patently audible even to my wife in the upstairs area. Forget bass, midrange, treble.
Please spare me.
> > You could say that the Indra caused a kind of profound whole-body relaxation of the music. Music now appeared to be free of effort, free of former reminders of electronic artifacts. It floated in expanded space as pure sounds rather than being mechanically processed and thus left with a certain tension, grit or texture as part of that processing. Let's be clear that I'm not talking about dynamics or timbre or any of the other usual audiophile suspects except for spaciousness. I'm talking about the absence of a specific artificiality that was crystal-clear and not at all minor once removed.
Oh my god, I'm going to hurl all over my laptop.
$6000 grand for a meter cable. Listen, if someone can source some wire and build a good sounding interconnect... great - sell it for a reasonable price - like under $500.
Why people support this cable crap by reviewing it, and buying it, amazes me.
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