Some cables are for wrapping your head around, but JPS, especially SC3 and Aluminata are for opening your heart to the music. Intended for those who sit down to be moved by music and want to intensify that connection. Especially Aluminata, it provides the control and detail of SC3 with a gentler nurturing feeling. It is as emotional a piece of gear as a tube preamp or paper driver, but I know it is not based on euphonic distortion because it never gets in the way as euphonic distortion inevitably always does. We just don't realize how much music is lost to wire. JPS minimizes the loss.
Some of that intensity you hear Carl is from your diffusion especially in presence range where midrange detail is so evident. The SC3 cables are just clearer and cleaner than the others, and the diffusion reduces reflections, so you are getting a pile up of clarity. I noticed the same tonal intensity when I had diffusion in my room, a lot less than you. Distortion is tough to give up, but feels good once you get used to the new clarity.
If you look at the price from the perspective that you might try many other wires before discovering the end of the rainbow with JPS, you could save a lot of money by buying JPS right off the bat. Maybe that's the point of this thread, a way for people to hear from owners how JPS has affected their enjoyment of the hobby, and also saved money! The highest tiers of JPS are expensive relative to the $500-1000 socially acceptable price range we are accustomed to. But when I've compared JPS to wire of equivalent price, it has always won, even in the lower tiers. It would be fun to compare Tara, MIT and Transparent's best to Aluminata! The UltraConductor2 ICs demonstrated at Carls recent G2G were astonishing compared to the wires preceding and following it. The SuperConductor Q SCs were astonishing compared to similar priced SCs at my last g2g and at Carls last. I upgraded from $80 Anticables to SC3 for my second SCs and it was a great money saving decision because I know I would have bought other cables and lost money on them while searching. Since then I have recommended them to 3 people who have bought and are glad to be done with wire nervosa. But I do still want Aluminatas after living with them for 2 months.
But you really have to hear it to understand. It's not something you can easily put into words, and if you try you will just sound like a
gushing schoolgirl.
