Hi Charles,
Thanks for the kind words. I read, with great interest, your writings concerning the Supra cables.
I also am experiencing some faint crackling from the speakers at first turn on of the amps but it stops within a minute or so and seems to be related to warm-up. I am paying attention to this to see if goes away as the tubes run in.
What tube sockets did you choose? I am leaning toward these but at a total of $335.40 plus shipping I did make a gasping noise. Soon, though, soon.
Regards,
Jake
The Teflon babies at 19.95 woked out very well. Only needed 6 so not so bad. All the noise and minor crackling of the tubes is now gone,gone,gone. Pins are very tight. The jury is still out on the Supra cables. With the JPS in the house [ Aluminata] I've been playing around. The all JPS system is very warm sexy and quiet as a Church mouse. Colored but in a very pleasant way. Rich, full yet detailed enough. Very very quiet cable.
When I leave the JPS SC-3 IC in the system { from Pre to amp and sub and add the Supra Ply 5.1 spkr. cable I loose the fullness a bit but the clarity and dynamics are better. A trade off for sure but the difference in admission $5.50/ ft as opposed to over$1000/ft. is quite easy to accept. Yes overall the nod goes to the JPS. In all fairness the Aluminata did not have a great synergy with my amps [SET ]. The SC-3 would be a better match according to Shane.
Surprisingly the Stealth silver ribbons that were out of the system actually sounded quite good. I changed the caps in the amp to V-Cap Teflons and the smoother presentation of Teflon allowed the silver to syner do its thing, expose all. Neutral as neutral can be. Again thinner than the JPS but the detail and clarity was quite something.
So the Supra cable offered a bit of both the personalities of the JPS and Stealth. Not equaling either in total performance but the call was close too close for the price.
If I had the scratch an all JPS wired system would be the choice . Right now for my system the JPS ICs are the key IMO and the speaker cable can be the tradeoff.
charles