Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
I've been swapping interconnects around for the past couple of weeks and found that a pair of solid silver interconnects (either twixt pre and power amp or twixt CD player and pre) gave much less level in the mid-bass and no deep bass at all. Swapped to Audioquest Turqouise (silver plated copper I think)- Bass returned immediately. Not a subtle difference at all.
As I understand it, not all "pure" silver conductors are made equal. And as Neil noted earlier, the MAD cable was more transparent than the cable I used prior, allowing more of the bass from the source through. Furthermore, it's not unheard of of people using cables to add "positive" colouration to enhance their musical experience. My van den Hul Thunderline interconnect in an earlier system did just that; evening out the tonal balance by "enhancing" the undernourished bass when I was using the lean sounding EPOS M15...

The reason the bottleneck theory didn't occur to me earlier was because I was still mired in amazement that such a low powered hybrid amp could "produce" such bass output after the cable change :-)

Regards,

Malek