That's partly true Rich, but I do have beta testers. I always strive to improve my cables and shep is a beta tester. But beta testers usually do not speak about a new cable being tested publicly without notifying the maker. That being said I enjoy shep and he will continue being a beta tester with me if he will let me know his impressions of my cables before he publishes them. I've made some wonderful progress lately with my RCA cable out performing the JPS Aluminata in carefully controlled sessions.
Grover,
Just wanted you to know that your latest IC vastly outperformed the $3,700 JPS Labs Aluminata 1m RCA Analogue that an Audiogon acquaintance sent me to try.
Your cable was open, dynamic, with terrific detail and wonderful sound stage; whereas the JPS was detailed yet opaque, as if there was a curtain -- a heavy one - between the speaker and the listener.
This was true on two different systems, one with top of the line Apogees, and terrific electronics, the other on my Dynaudio Confidence One/McIntosh/Lampizator system.
Laurence from Santa Barbara[/i]
I have further improved the cables since this test. It’s fun and exciting to hear the music as real in front of you. Nothing is more exciting than cable science.