The best IC in the World! My Audio Design Diamond Signature

[Marco]

Hi Mr 'Mad'. What's your first name? It's something we prefer people to have here, particularly our trade members, as it engenders a more 'personal' connection during exchanges between potential customers

We never listened to Mark Grant cables but I suppose it is a good one for it's price, I think it is more fair for you to compare QED and IXOS entry level stuff with the Mark Grant.

Our cable, even the Baby £69.99 can easily out perform cables doubled of it's price; why? We tested a couple hundred types of different conductors before we make ours. You should try one and it is only 3 times the price of the entry level Mark Grant cable. With 45 days guarantee you have nothing to lose.

My experience with Mark Grant cables, and all manner of cables in general, both entry-level and 'hi-end', shows that they're not simply good ones for their price, but completely outperform every other cable I've listened to or used myself - and trust me, that's plenty! They retired my Transparent Reference interconnects at nearly £1000 a metre.

If you send me some of your cables (different varieties would be good) I will gladly compare them to the Mark Grant cables I use and produce a detailed review of the comparison on the forum. If any outperform the MG's I will gladly report this and you will receive some excellent free publicity and exposure on this busy and influential audio forum.

However, it will be on a loan and return basis for review purposes only, as you would do if submitting product to a magazine. I am not buying anything in advance. You can have a think and let me know if you would like to proceed

Marco.

[Covenant]

We are talking about completely different thing, One tenth of Odin's price is our top of the range Diamond Silver 99.9997% cable, and they are not Litz!
Moreover, our SPL range are not normal Litz wire, instead of Canare we use Cardas, The patented technologies being use are called 'Golden Section' & ‘Constant Q U.S Patent 4628151 & 4980517), this approach uses multi conductors arranged in a helical triad of quad-axial planetary arrays. This arrangement conforms to the golden ratio and creates constant Q conductors. It eliminates resonant multiples in conductors mathematically. The musical presentation produced by this arrangement is well balanced and rounded. Super high purity 99.99997% cooper wire is used, and each strand is extruded and polished from a special Diamond Die, and individually insulated with a specially-formulated enamel in nitrogen atmosphere, to eliminate corrosion oxidation and contamination during the manufacturing process.

After a lengthy extrusion process, the cables are arranged in Golden Section Stranding and sheathed with Teflon dielectric to ensure the highest quality sound reproduction. The RCA phono plugs on our cables are low-mass connectors designed to minimize mechanical vibration. Even our entry level cables are terminated with professional grade gold-plated connectors, and the Paris are terminated with high end non-magnetic, Eutectic Brass connectors with Rodium/Gold over Silver Plating to ensure the best possible conductivity. All connectors are hand soldered using Cardas Tri-Eutectic Silver Solder.

I dont mean to be rude but I cant help thinking about the Crunchy Frog sketch:
"We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose."

[NRG]

I dont mean to be rude but I cant help thinking about the Crunchy Frog sketch:
"We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose."

[StanleyB]

Well I am impressed with their performance.

Stan

[Alex_UK]

If you send me some of your cables (different varieties would be good) I will gladly compare them to the Mark Grant cables I use and produce a detailed review of the comparison on the forum. If any outperform the MG's I will gladly report this and you will receive some excellent free publicity and exposure on this busy and influential audio forum.

I would definitely like to see this happen - my system is never going to be good enough, nor my ears (or experience of different cables, for that matter ), but I would certainly trust an endorsement from Marco on his findings - as I would Stan Beresford's - Stan, which MAD cables are you using, and in what scenario?

I hope my first post didn't come across as too harsh - but you must understand that having opened a topic "The Best IC in the World!" is going to make people "frown" and ask questions!

[John]

Alex try not to worry to much about interconnect cables in the past I spent a fortune on them yes they can help the sound but as long you have well made cables with good quality materials the sound should be ok Remember a good sytem is all about synergy getting everything to work together

[MAD]

Hi Marco,

I looked at the Mark Grant website, they only do a £20 Canare and a £48 balanced cable. I think perhaps we can start with a pair of My Baby. Could you send me your address and telephone number through the private message.

Perhaps after your listening test we can circulate this cable around to different AOS members?

[Marco]

Hi,

Yes, they may only "do £20 Canare", but it's those cables which outperformed my £1000 Transparents!!

Don't be fooled by their lowly price - they are stunning cables

No problem; I'll PM you my address, but I need your first name to use on the forum. I ain't going to call you 'Mr Mad' all the time

So what's your first name?

Marco.

[MAD]

My name is JJ, look forwaring to seeing your mail soon.

[Marco]

Thanks, JJ - PM sent!

Marco.