Those issues cancel out as they are all in every design, leaving the coherence issues as the main driver…but, better design allow the improvement to be larger than the wire size alone. You want the IC cable to be more current coherent than the speaker cable, or a smaller AWG size, to not bottleneck the coherence improvements.This assumes some other important issues are addressed, so this is most true for ICONOCLAST only. Here is my recommendations and WHY, I make them. But first, I need to give my ears and my wallet a well-deserved rest! When the new cables get broken in, I may venture into the Iconoclast world to see what I’ve been missing. I can tell that this power cable trip is going to cost me some money.Īt present, I am breaking in my new Parsec IC’s and Audience power cords. Adding the Forte cords also made the Clear Sky more listenable, which created another complication in evaluating interconnects. I tried a few of the Audience Forte F3 cords, and was surprised to hear a quieter background, tighter bass, and a smoother more natural sound than with the stock Stellar power cords.
Clear day cables series#
That’s because the Clear series is focused more on transparency and being “clear.” In some systems, that sonic signature would be great, but my system seems to sound better with a cable that is more forgiving and natural - at least to my ears.Īt the same time I was listening to the Clear Sky, I also took a tentative trip down the “rabbit hole” of power cords. Although the Clear Sky provided some nice detail and transparency, it didn’t have much of the warmth that Cardas is known for. Clear Sky is also the least expensive cable in Cardas’ Clear series. Although some cable makers have developed a “house sound” that shows up in many of their cables, this doesn’t mean that you can assume that you’ll like every cable in the catalog.Īlthough I ordered a 1m XLR of the Parsec interconnect, the Parsec was initially out of stock so I had the opportunity to try the Clear Sky XLR, which is the next step up in the Cardas line - at least in terms of cost. However, the diversity of opinions emphasizes how important it is to be sure that a particular interconnect is a good match for the rest of the system. Paul from Clear Day decided to send me a pair of original Shotgun speaker cables with the Double Shotguns for comparison’s sake.Lots of great high-value options being offered that emphasize excellent sound without spending too much money. Each cable was composed of eight feet of silver wire at multiples of either two or four Shotgun and Double Shotgun respectively.īoth sets of cables arrived with the assurance of being completely broken in, even though they looked as if they hadn’t been used a day in their lives.
I come from a history of cable building, which made me want to review these cables all the more. I love to analyze the quality of build and construction, and to see whether any unique tweaks or tricks have been employed by the builder. From the moment I opened the box, I was blown away by the quality of the cables. Each black, sheathed conductor was run separately out from the termination and twisted together until they met up again at the opposite terminations. The termination configuration of the Double Shotgun cables consisted of spades on the amplifier end and banana plugs on the speaker end. Both connectors were of a very high quality, with their neat solder joints covered in colorcoded heat-shrink. When I asked Paul why his cables were directional, his response was, Interestingly, there is also a piece of heat-shrink part way down the cable with the Clear Day logo on it and a directional arrow. “I feel my solid-silver core conductor is virgin until a signal goes down it. Then, at a molecular level, as said signal flows down that conductor, a smoother path is created as the electronic particles flowing have less resistance and or bumps along the way, as when a river erodes and smoothes out rock. Thereby, the end signal reaching the speaker has less distortions and or more natural sonics.
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