Could this be a 'giant-killing' tonearm cable?

[realysm42]

So your trying these xlr cables in place of your TQ blacks?

Also, the Neutriks your ordering are £2, is that right?

[MartinT]

So your trying these xlr cables in place of your TQ blacks?

Also, the Neutriks your ordering are £2, is that right?

Yes, and what has price got to do with anything? Those Neutriks have silver contacts and are standard in every studio in the world. The XLRs on the TQs are also Neutrik, same model.

[realysm42]

Yes, and what has price got to do with anything? Those Neutriks have silver contacts and are standard in every studio in the world. The XLRs on the TQs are also Neutrik, same model.

Nothing, I'm intruiged as to your decision; I know you don't think high price denotes quality I just wanted to be sure I had the right thing.

Most of the time I'm pretty interested by what you write, hence my curiosity.

[MartinT]

I would say that, due to the design of XLR connectors and the nature of balanced operation, cables in general and connectors in particular have much less impact than with standard (single-ended) connections. There is simply less 'foo' with XLR. Therefore I don't expect the large differences I've heard from the single-ended 223.5 cables and I don't think there is any merit in going with, say, a Furutech XLR connector when the Neutrik is so well made and costs very little.

Sorry if my previous response seemed a little terse, I didn't mean it to come out that way

[MikeMusic]

I am over the moon with these cables and can only say they represent extremely good value for money and have very high build quality. Yannis has produced something very special here and I thank Marco for having spotted his products and given them a punt.

Hearing your system a couple of months ago it seems incredible there is so much more to reveal.
Gives me great hopes for the future of my system

[MartinT]

Yes Mike - believe it or not I had an earthing fault then and also wasn't running the Yannis interconnect. It's even more dynamic and vivid now

[MikeMusic]

Yes Mike - believe it or not I had an earthing fault then and also wasn't running the Yannis interconnect. It's even more dynamic and vivid now

Well it sounded perfect before
So this must be better than perfect !


Seriously I thought it sounded utterly transparent and naked
I'm staggered, and delighted to hear it is so much better
How does this rank in terms of previous system improvements ?

[MartinT]

Too hard to say. Significant, but then they all add up to a very large improvement as a whole. Quite a lot has gone on since I bought the Power Plant P10 and I'm just about to start down the road of replacing all my power cables.

[MikeMusic]

Too hard to say. Significant, but then they all add up to a very large improvement as a whole. Quite a lot has gone on since I bought the Power Plant P10 and I'm just about to start down the road of replacing all my power cables.

Bits and pieces here and there adding up to more than the sum of the total.
Fits nicely into context with Team GB cycling team.
So many other countries are saying "how do they can they possibly do that ?"
Keep making incremental improvements and gain more than drugs !

I'd love to hear my LP12 or a fully fettled one with some or all of those bits

[DaveK]

Bits and pieces here and there adding up to more than the sum of the total.
Fits nicely into context with Team GB cycling team.
So many other countries are saying "how do they can they possibly do that ?"
Keep making incremental improvements and gain more than drugs !

Nah, it's nothing to do with incremental improvements and all to do with the fact that our bike wheels "are round, I mean really round" according to the information imparted to a French TV interviewer by GB Cycling technical guru and picked up by French newspapers apparently .
Fact is they are made in France and the 'face' of the French company concerned in their ads is the guy that Lord(?) Hoy beat to get his last medal.
All good fun, innit?