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Tara Labs for all of the system. Smooth sound with tight bass.
An audio system is not a system unless you hook it all together. How do you do it?
Interconnects are home made. Speaker cables are cheap QED purple stuff. With my experiments with interconnects, I found that the topology of the cable was more important to the sound than the materials. I prefer my very cheap wire to expensive silver ones I made.
Audio Magic Excallibur II cables all around, interconnects and speaker cables! These are excellent silver cables that don't cost a whole bunch of money. (Well the speaker cables were kind of expensive, but what sound!) My thanks Dave K. at Audio Magic.
I currently use the wonderful MIT 330 Plus II series interconnects, and my speaker cables are MIT T2 biwire cables. A great combination for anyone on a mid-fi budget! I'm looking forward to moving to MIT's new Shotgun series when DVD-Audio comes out! Might as well go for all the gusto when the new audio millennium comes!
For interconnects I use Audiotruth Diamond and Lapis. While for the loudspeakers Audiotruth Argent is currently in use, however a set of Dragons would be nice too. I appreciate how these cables let all of the music through. To achieve a great improvement, I believe that I would have to spend a whole lot more
Interconnects and speaker cable are Audioplan Musicable (tugboat ropes from Germany), but currently using Audioquest Crystal speaker cable due to space and furnishing requirements. No comments to make but 'd love to know what other users of both types think. Secondary interconnects from Stax and Audio Technica.
DH Labs all the way . . . TL-1 Interconnects to connect the sources to the Adcom GFP-750 and the GFP-750 to the GFA-555 Mk.II. And then I use T-14 speaker cables to connect the GFA-555 Mk.II to KEF Reference 102s. And how do I describe the sound? Clean and very extended highs, clear, transparent, and resolute midrange, and an extended, tight, and well-defined bass response. They also give me an open soundstage with very good depth. Think of them as cables that are along the lines of MIT CVTerminators, only they don't cost as much as a subcompact automobile. So, now I can afford to take my girlfriend out for an expensive dinner if I want to. I just cannot see the justification of spending a shitload of dough on cables. My advice is to give DH Labs a try. They produce a lot of good sound for NOT a lot of money.