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What are your favorite IC's and why?
Carlman:
I currently have Reality Cables IC's (and SC's) and am looking forward to hearing some of Grover Huffman's cables... since John at BSC recommends them. It'll be a while before I get them, though.
But up to now the RC's are among the best I've heard at their price point. I have the ones with Vampire termination and they were about $225 IIRC. They have a nice, transparent sound that gets out of the way of the music.
If money were no object, I think I'd prefer Audience Au24. It has the most natural presentation with the perfect 'pace' that I've ever heard... but at $500+ a pair, I can live without that last percent improvement.
I'm interested in DU's experience with Sonoran, though. I've heard the name but never experimented with it.
Let's hear it!
-C
Double Ugly:
--- Quote from: "Carlman" ---I'm interested in DU's experience with Sonoran, though. I've heard the name but never experimented with it.
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Not much to tell, really. It's just that my long-time preference ($5,750 retail Stealth Indra) were pushed surprisingly hard by the Sonoran Plateau ICs. If I hadn't already purchased the Indra, I wouldn't have paid the difference - even at my discounted beta-tester prices - over the Sonoran.
With the Indra, you get a little extra tonal 'presence', or realness, if you will; expanded soundstage (far and away the best I've heard - see Srajan's review for more on that); and a way of cleanly removing digital...I don't know...stuff...that seems to be the bane of virtually every system I've ever heard that's connected to anything that isn't spinning vinyl. Every other cable I've heard - including the Sonoran - cleans it up via some sort of masking. Some do it better than others, but with the Indra, it's simply not there...at least I can't hear it, and I believe Srajan had something to say about it as well.
If it weren't for those differences, I'd have sold the Indra in favor of the Sonoran, just on principle. I plan to keep them, though, as a hedge against any future fiscal requirements. After a week or two with the Sonoran, I doubt I'd miss the Indra all that much.
But as is the case with the Butler Monad monoblocks, I know what I have, and I'm not interested in giving it up unless forced. Just can't bring myself to do it.
Black Sand Cable:
--- Quote from: "Carlman" ---I currently have Reality Cables IC's (and SC's) and am looking forward to hearing some of Grover Huffman's cables... since John at BSC recommends them. It'll be a while before I get them, though.
-C
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As you mentioned I endorse what Grover is doing on the IC side of things. For me it comes down to performance versus price and I have yet to hear anything that comes close to the price / performance ratio that Grover offers. Granted I have not tried everything that is out there but I’m not sure I need to.
Grover is a great guy who makes a good product at a fair price. Not much more I can say.
:D
mca:
As I understand, Grover only makes IC's. If I end up with the BSPC's and a pair of the Grover IC's, what speaker cable matches up well with these two?
Black Sand Cable:
--- Quote from: "mca" ---As I understand, Grover only makes IC's. If I end up with the BSPC's and a pair of the Grover IC's, what speaker cable matches up well with these two?
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Grover does speaker wire but to be honest I'm not sure of his prices. I'm also not sure what else he makes. I will shoot him an email and see if I can get him to post on what he all makes.
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