What is your favourite Inter-connect?

[Greg.]

My other thread on the CVH fine silver wire I/C's got me thinking a little. I had settled on an I/C recipe that I was happy with and forgot about it. In the meantime I made a number of changes to the system. On revisiting the influence to sound an I/C can bring, I made a change which sounded better to me. The moral being that if your system is continuously evolving, returning to reconsider other links in the system change may well bring benefits to the sound. Having said that, I know some members swear by their choice of connectors and stick with them, having found nothing better. My main interest is in DIY cables, but some alternatively prefer ready made jobs. In light of what I've just said, What are your favourite I/C's and why?

Best wishes,

Greg

[Paul Welsby]

After reading your other post i got thinking too.

Im currently bidding on some Nordost Blue Heaven which Ive heard some good results about.

Will report back if i win.

Paul

[Gerry]

Paul

I use the Nordost....it is excellent. Good luck.

Regards
Gerry

[Rob042]

at the mo - my fav is a diy silver cable .
0.3mm silver in a 1mm teflon tube. same for signal and return. The pair are then platted about a 2mm copper earth wire which is connected to the return side at the source end.

used to use Heaven too - the dawn is even better .

Rob

[Greg.]

Hi Rob,

Interesting. The CVH design uses just 0.2mm and is built differently being a spiraled pair of wires around Teflon tube. Apart from that and of course the sheilding type properties of your dummy earth wire, there's not alot of difference conductor wise. If I'm going to experiment again, I think I'll be more inclined to use your design but with some solid silver core a fair bit thicker. have you tried different wire guages?

Best wishes,

Greg

[Rob042]

Greg
I did try to get down to sub 0.2mm - but had a real pain threading and breaking.
found sub 0.3mm to become over trebly on some recordings.
did try 0.5mm and 1mm but to my ears things seemed sluggish/muddy.

dont have any rf noises with the metre length from dac to amp. But from the phono stage to amp I thought I heard some ( this is 2.5m) so used some silver screen/braid (which so happened to be at work ) connected at the source end. The resultant cable does {to my lug'oles } sound 'cleaner'

Rob