The best thing about the OCOS cables is the fact that they are not horribly expensive. A 7.5 meter (almost 25') pair retails for $1000. It is recommended that for maximum results, two cables per side be used.

As I stated earlier, I used three cables per side - and the results were excellent.

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MAIN SYSTEM: Avalon Eidolons and/or Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, STAX SR-404 Signature Electrostatic Headphones, STAX SRM-727 Headphone Amp, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, Graham Nightingale II Cartridge, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric Modified-X03 CD/SACD Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System


UPSTAIRS SYSTEM: Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amplifier, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-95 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV cartridge, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around in the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .

Not familiar with OCOS and I don't know how they can compensate for long length capacitance in a passive way either. One thing for sure, Transparent can't match that price.

Dynaudio has a 10 page "White Paper" describing the various aspects of their OCOS cable, not much of which I understand, but with your technical expertise, you can probably decipher it (If you can put it in baby-words I'd appreciate a translation)


http://www.dynaudio.com/eng/pdf/DYN_...Grundl_INT.pdf

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Julian


MAIN SYSTEM: Avalon Eidolons and/or Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, STAX SR-404 Signature Electrostatic Headphones, STAX SRM-727 Headphone Amp, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, Graham Nightingale II Cartridge, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric Modified-X03 CD/SACD Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System


UPSTAIRS SYSTEM: Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amplifier, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-95 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV cartridge, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around in the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .

Thanks Julian, I'll give it a read.

Serge...a good friend uses these with Thiels. They sound really good and like Julian's are 35' maybe less. He also has 3 runs.

Dave

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1 and 2 meter balanced wireworld IC
18 foot wireworld speaker cables.

I use the shortest possible interconnects and 8 foot speaker cables. I try to keep the IC length as short as pssible (especially from tonearm to phono stage) because there is considerably less signal in the interconnects than there is in the speaker cable. There are also losses from capacitance that are dependent on cable length.

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Yes, this is an interesting paper; I've seen it referenced before.

As a Dyn owner, I can safely say that Dynaudio knows a thing or two about speakers and speaker cables.

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I use as long as 5 Meters of XLR cables ( WW Silver Eclipse ) and only 30 centimeters of speaker cable !
2 days ago I replaced the Anticables by the Kimber 8TC Dan gave me : what a surprise ! Even for a very short length as mine, the Kimber kicked the ass of the Speltz, in terms of overall Refinement and Bass dynamics and resolution....

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They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jerome...Kimber rocks

Dave

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