McIntosh Cables

[HiFiCrossFit]

Originally Posted by zappadaddy

YES,I own one pair MCintosh XLR 2m and test against Harmonix GP and seem even better in comparasion.With these cables I don't feel to play with other brands anymore.Great price,great quality and great look.What else you hope for.Now power cables that's another chapter.I neeed recommendations for them.

I have Mcintosh IC and will be purchasing WW PC for all my gear.

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[dkrm]

I am using Mc Speaker cable and IC. I am keeping the speaker cable but most likely will change the IC to either Transparent Ultra or Reference. I am listening to both using my own setup at the moment.

[enit]

Originally Posted by dkrm

I am using Mc Speaker cable and IC. I am keeping the speaker cable but most likely will change the IC to either Transparent Ultra or Reference. I am listening to both using my own setup at the moment.

Transparent doesn't work for me with McIntosh and Focal. Not at all.

It sounds like it destroyed the essence of the McIntosh full bodied sound, and made them leaner. With a focal, you want to take advantage of the mid range, and the transparent doesn't help much, and gave such a non-energetic performance to the set up.

I've tried a couple of times to like transparent cables, but they never lived up to the hype for me. I got so much naturalness from other cables than I ever did. It's probably because of the network box.

In cables, signals can only be lost. Not gained, since it isn't active.
Network box looks to "filter" and "trim" frequencies. What you really want is something wholesome, full, detailed, altogether.

I don't prefer to "eq" with cables in my systems. But it's entirely possible, and something I used to do, coz I didn't know better. When you have good gear, from source down the the speakers, you don't need the fancy features.

Get ones that are technically correct, with good insulation is my advice. The McIntosh IC is properly designed with an additional drain. It's quiet, and full bodied. I wouldn't change it for anything else, coz everything else at its price point and above is merely different. Not better.

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