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An Inmate looked back, and wrote, "I originally reached out to you in 2002. It was about Kimber Select. Your writing was consistently high quality. And it's only gotten better!" He then turned, "And I see you're still covering Kimber Kable."Early in the Fall 1987 semester, my few guy friends faded away. And in came a sizable number of smart, cute, friendly, music-loving freshmen girls. The Volleyball Club met Fridays after school. That's where I met Rida, who bounced to whatever music would be playing via boombox. To go home, we went in different directions: she would take the 29-Sunset, and I usually took MUNI Metro's M line.
One day, several of us congregated on the outdoor courts. Rida asked what we were doing the next day. She then suggested that we meet in Golden Gate Park, and go to the Academy Of Sciences. Since we were not a clique, and typically had to take public transportation, stray individuals showed up at various times. In total, we had maybe a dozen, but we split up in pairs and trios, and set a time for lunch. For the most part, I was with Rida and Anh.Afterward, Rida asked if I'd come over to her place, which was on 20-something near Lawton. When she and I got there, she said, "Don't tell anyone, but I don't live here. This is actually my grandparents' house. I do come here almost everyday after school. But we use the address, so that I could get into Lowell. I really live in D.C." That would be Daly City. Thus, Rida was illegally attending SF's Lowell. But she was far from the only one, using an SF address, to get into SF schools.
Anyway, her college-age cousin happened to be over at the grandparents' house. And he had a new JVC boombox, with Hyper Bass. Yeah, yeah, that's about as opposite of high-end audio as we can get. But when he played The Alarm's "Presence Of Love," it was mesmerizing. No, Rida and I never crushed on each other.
Back home, I had the October 1987 Stereophile. As I did not subscribe until 1990, I do not recall from which bookstore I bought that issue. Anyway, that issue had this rather anonymous Kimber Kable ad. And that was the first time I was made aware of the KCAG line-level interconnect. I paid it less than a minute of attention. $350 was what one of our mass market electronic components would have cost. So to spend that much on an interconnect was out of the question.
In the 1990s, the KCAG came in a hinged jewelry box. In the late-2000s, our KCAG, just like the Select series, came in a Pelican case. The Inmate above says that his modern-day KCAG still comes in a jewelry box, but it now has a hard black-colored (versus gray/silver of yore) 4-piece outer sleeve.
Whereas the outside of jewelry box of the 1990s was velour, today's is plastic/vinyl.
In the 1990s, some of the boxes had clips, to hold the cable down. This box does not.The Inmate above is amazed that, here in 2021, the KCAG is still in production. But now the bad news. Retail price is $540 per half meter, plus $120 termination, including Ultraplate RCA or Switchcraft XLR. Therefore, a 1-meter base pair costs $1200! Today's mass market electronic stereo component does not cost $1200. If you do not like the Ultraplate RCA, you can order WBT-0114Ag for $103 per pair , or WBT-0102Ag for $183 per pair .
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - Kimber KCAG, Part 8 - Luminator 18:38:52 05/6/21 (0)
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