Hi Oliver
I'll add my 2 pennerth of feedback, a bit late but my excuse is that I have been away in Italy eating and drinking far too much
for the past week.
For context I would say I haven't experimented with any cables really and currently use "Chunky " cables from a guy in Ebay currently at £28 a shot which are copper OFC and have lockable plugs and a grey screening for shielding. So far no complaints about them at all and I've never had anything more expensive in there.
I put yours connected between my FB OTC phono to my headphone amp as my headphones are more revealing than my speakers for the 1st evaluation. So apart from the tone arm cable from my turntable (ZYX Yatra) to the OTC nothing else was in the path.
So I played Neil Young's Harvest, Led Zep 4 and London Grammar's Truth is a Beautiful Thing to give them a run out.
Things I noticed immediately -
On Harvest - More detail and clarity, also notes from the slide guitar in the right hand side in "Out on the weekend" that I haven't heard before notes seem crisper and sharper. Great harmonies from the backing singers.
On Zep 4 - Bonham's cymbal both crash and ride really shimmer and the notes on pages guitar solos are really clearly enunciated again more detail than I am used to hearing. But JP Jone's bass seems to go a bit AWOL and this did have the effect of making the music lose some of it's drive imho.
On Truth is a beautiful thing - Wow! Hannah Reid's vocals really stand out (as they do anyhow) but they sound properly beautiful I can hear some of the highest notes catch at the back of her throat, again something I've never heard before but sounds astounding.
In general the soundstage for all seemed to become a lot more immediate and brought forwards. I would emphasise that this was not unpleasant to my ears just something I wasn't used to, it was certainly interesting. Comparing with the other interconnects they did have more clarity, detail and the top notes hit had more "punch" to them.
To be sure I played everything again through my speakers and although less revealing than the headphones they echoed my findings above.
Overall for me the clincher is the slight lack of bass weight to them, given I listen to a lot of rock and reggae this is something I would need to "feel" and hear.
However if I listened to mainly acoustic music and female vocals I'd have these like a shot
.
If you come up with something similar but retains the bass then that would be ideal for me personally.
This was a very interesting experience though, having never experimented with cables before and it has certainly piqued my interest in them
. Which no doubt means more expense (or something) lol
. Amazing what is possible with bits of wire, it's shown me that here is also more detail in the system that could be brought out too, without a major change of components.....
Thanks for the chance to check them out.
Cheers Andy