Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler

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Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level.

Posted by Fiddler (A) on January 15, 2003 at 19:48:11

In Reply to: Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. posted by paulmc on January 15, 2003 at 11:30:09:

Paul,

You certainly know more about wire than I do, but I am confused as to why you don't like silver (it is more expensive for sure). There is not one trace of brightness in my system and I have a lot of exposed hardwood floor. In fact, after more break-in, my amp sounds much smoother, fuller and a bit warmer than it did with the Monster copper-stranded. Much clearer and cleaner with the last bit of grain removed, as well.

My system sounded so much better today (maybe the planets were just aligned) that I missed a business meeting. I was sitting there listening and couldn't tear myself away to leave on time. I couldn't believe how good everything sounded. And I don't mean by a little bit either. For the first time, I sat there and said to myself, "I'm done. No more changes, I don't need it any better than this." (Maybe for a week anyway !) But the point is, I was completely satisfied with what I heard in my system today. Can't say I have ever felt that way before.

I know some people have complained about silver being bright and having a sound of its own, I personally don't believe that. (Maybe sterling or cheap silver might be bright, but I don't think fine silver is bright at all). I believe silver is just more revealing. If there are problems anywhere up-stream of the silver, I believe it just allows the problems to be heard more clearly than copper. But I do agree that solid core is far superior to stranded in most applications.

Numerous high-end manufacturers use silver "exclusively" in their "highest-end" producuts. If silver was the problem, I can't imagine they would compromise the sound of $20k-$50K components just to say they used silver. (Sure I know it is chic to say components are made with silver, but if it truly was problematic, they wouldn't use it simply for the sake of hype.)

Oh well, I will be curious to hear about your experiments, as well as those of others here who might try different alternatives.

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Topic - HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 04:34:47 01/14/03 (13)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Vic D 09:00:57 01/15/03 (4)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 19:49:59 01/15/03 (3)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Vic D 20:27:36 01/16/03 (2)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 04:38:20 01/17/03 (1)

Thanks Fiddler...nt - Vic D 10:04:19 01/17/03 (0)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Socrates 07:35:27 01/14/03 (7)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - david45 23:58:39 04/19/03 (0)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - paulmc 11:30:09 01/15/03 (3)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 01/15/0319:48:11 01/15/03 (2)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - paulmc 19:59:09 01/15/03 (1)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 20:09:41 01/15/03 (0)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 16:40:37 01/14/03 (0)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Audio Pharaoh 15:27:00 01/14/03 (0)

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Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 01/15/0319:48:11 01/15/03 (2)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - paulmc 19:59:09 01/15/03 (1)

Re: HCA-2 taken to a new level. - Fiddler 20:09:41 01/15/03 (0)

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