frenchmon
11-14-2009, 07:04 PM
I am just totally blown away by these cables. I've had these playing in my system for about 4 days now and have less that 100 hours on them. They, the Engineers at A+ say they sound good out of the box but it take 300 hours to fully break them in. I'm now wondering how much better they can sound. I purchased these cables not ever hearing them but I did read the online reviews from audiophiles consumers and professionals and I did not read one bad review about the cables. The interconnect cables range from $58 to $1.365.00. I purchased 3 pair of the "Oval ones" which retail for $100 a pair. I hoped that the reviews would not let me down because I had not listened to, nor did I know anybody who had heard this brand of cable. So I decided to purchase and hoped for the best. To my ears, these cables are out standing in my system. But the problem is I have nothing to really compare these cables to other than monopriced cables. These things are miles ahead of monopriced and I too think they surpass the BlueJeanCables, but I could be wrong without a side by side shootout. But what I can tell you is what joy there is in my system now as apposed to before I got the A+
When I first got my system, I thought it lacked that next level of high end audio sound. I always thought because it was only Rotel separates and only mid fi at best that it was as good as it was going to get. My speakers where only mid fi at best, only Canton Bookshelf speaker and they could get no better right? Boy was I wrong. I can tell all those who don't have the pricey high end gear that your system can reach its potential if you have decent gear and add even better accessories to it. My Amp is a very decent amp that retails for about $1000, My preamp for about $1200, my SACDP for about $700, my CDP close to about $3000 , speakers about $800, and sub about $1200 So its no high end system at all. midfi at best.
The first thing I did for a better audiophile sound was elevate my CDP and SACDP up off the platform with some small home made ceramic block, about an inch and a half and it improved the sound to where the sound stage became fuller, wider, deeper. The highs became clearer and the bass more robust. It was a very noticeable improvement to the overall sound of my system.
Having what I believed to be a very capable core in my amp and preamp, not to big in the bottom end and not to bright, but more of a little on the warm side of neutral, I decided I could probably use a better CDP than the Rotel CDP. I felt that I could spend a little more money on a player that would read more information than the mid fi Rotel CDP. My good friend Mr. Peabody had no idea he had come at the right time with good news about the discontinued Musical Fidelity players that where being sold at about 1/4 of the original price. Mr. Peabody had said he had never heard one of their players, So I decided to jump on that deal after reading all the online reviews. What a blessing it was to get this CDP. Not only was it sorta warm and tube like in sound, it had great synergy with the Rotel gear. And I had already had the Marantz SACDP which is warm as well and has very good synergy with my system. The Canton speakers looked ok from the pictures I had seen online but I had never heard them either, but decided to take the chance. So I read all the online reviews about these speakers and had read some bad reviews and many of them where conflicting. Some said they where to bright, others said they lacked sparkle and where dark, others said the cherry finish was ugly. But I decided to try them because of the new soft dome tweets and if they where that bad, I had a 30 day window to send them back. I got the speakers and right out of the box they where beautful with the real cherry wood finish but sounded bright and harsh and had to much bottom end, but I understood this was because they where a product that needed broken in. After playing them day and night they did settle down and started to sound good. I purchsed some very good solid speaker stands and some 12 gauge speaker wire and my system was sounding good, that is....until I started hanging out with Mr. Peabody. His system became the judgment bar. I mean his system sounded so good I was like man, I've got to spend some good money to have that sound he has. So I was like, I need new speakers.
I then began to think about system interconnects and new speaker wire. But I had no idea what effect this would have on my system. I had already been doing research on cables, and Mr.Peabody said there was a local salesman in St. Louis who sells out of his home and he had analysis cables. Now I had seen A+ cables online before and read up on them a bit, but when Mr.Peabody said something about them, I decided to take a closer look and finally decided to take another chance at buying something I had never heard,nor knew anybody who had heard them. Even the guy whom I purchased them from had not heard the interconnects. I liked the idea of a hollow center and what all that meant, and the fact that the guys who designed them where first scientist, mathematicians,and engineers who did the research and did not rely on theory but scientific results to build what they believed to be a better cable. They first started in pro audio with guitar cables and then started in the audiophile side of things. So I got the cable, the low end of what they sell...not the lowest but what I thought was enough for cable. I got three pair. One pair to go between the amp and preamp, and one pair each to go between the X-Ray CDP and the Marantz SACDP. This little simple thing totally transformed my mid-fi system to a new level. the sound was clearer, the bottom end is better, and the soundstage is greater. The sound that is coming out of my book shelves have greater separation and air. I discovered that I had a harshness in my speakers before and that the monopriced cables colored the sound of my system. I've noticed that now I have a more balance sound from top to bottom, and before I did not have that. I am very pleased with the A+ cables. It seems they have taken my simple mid-fi up a notch.
So for all of you who have midfi, and think you cant get sound thats on another level, you can. Find some tweeks you can do, and by al means, get some good cable in your system. Try and get all of the same able if you can. It could be the missing link in your system that's preventing you from enjoying your system. I cant wait to get home from work just to sit in my easy chair with my remote. My next purchase will be the A+ speaker wires. I am totally satisfied with my sytem for now.
frenchmon
When I first got my system, I thought it lacked that next level of high end audio sound. I always thought because it was only Rotel separates and only mid fi at best that it was as good as it was going to get. My speakers where only mid fi at best, only Canton Bookshelf speaker and they could get no better right? Boy was I wrong. I can tell all those who don't have the pricey high end gear that your system can reach its potential if you have decent gear and add even better accessories to it. My Amp is a very decent amp that retails for about $1000, My preamp for about $1200, my SACDP for about $700, my CDP close to about $3000 , speakers about $800, and sub about $1200 So its no high end system at all. midfi at best.
The first thing I did for a better audiophile sound was elevate my CDP and SACDP up off the platform with some small home made ceramic block, about an inch and a half and it improved the sound to where the sound stage became fuller, wider, deeper. The highs became clearer and the bass more robust. It was a very noticeable improvement to the overall sound of my system.
Having what I believed to be a very capable core in my amp and preamp, not to big in the bottom end and not to bright, but more of a little on the warm side of neutral, I decided I could probably use a better CDP than the Rotel CDP. I felt that I could spend a little more money on a player that would read more information than the mid fi Rotel CDP. My good friend Mr. Peabody had no idea he had come at the right time with good news about the discontinued Musical Fidelity players that where being sold at about 1/4 of the original price. Mr. Peabody had said he had never heard one of their players, So I decided to jump on that deal after reading all the online reviews. What a blessing it was to get this CDP. Not only was it sorta warm and tube like in sound, it had great synergy with the Rotel gear. And I had already had the Marantz SACDP which is warm as well and has very good synergy with my system. The Canton speakers looked ok from the pictures I had seen online but I had never heard them either, but decided to take the chance. So I read all the online reviews about these speakers and had read some bad reviews and many of them where conflicting. Some said they where to bright, others said they lacked sparkle and where dark, others said the cherry finish was ugly. But I decided to try them because of the new soft dome tweets and if they where that bad, I had a 30 day window to send them back. I got the speakers and right out of the box they where beautful with the real cherry wood finish but sounded bright and harsh and had to much bottom end, but I understood this was because they where a product that needed broken in. After playing them day and night they did settle down and started to sound good. I purchsed some very good solid speaker stands and some 12 gauge speaker wire and my system was sounding good, that is....until I started hanging out with Mr. Peabody. His system became the judgment bar. I mean his system sounded so good I was like man, I've got to spend some good money to have that sound he has. So I was like, I need new speakers.
I then began to think about system interconnects and new speaker wire. But I had no idea what effect this would have on my system. I had already been doing research on cables, and Mr.Peabody said there was a local salesman in St. Louis who sells out of his home and he had analysis cables. Now I had seen A+ cables online before and read up on them a bit, but when Mr.Peabody said something about them, I decided to take a closer look and finally decided to take another chance at buying something I had never heard,nor knew anybody who had heard them. Even the guy whom I purchased them from had not heard the interconnects. I liked the idea of a hollow center and what all that meant, and the fact that the guys who designed them where first scientist, mathematicians,and engineers who did the research and did not rely on theory but scientific results to build what they believed to be a better cable. They first started in pro audio with guitar cables and then started in the audiophile side of things. So I got the cable, the low end of what they sell...not the lowest but what I thought was enough for cable. I got three pair. One pair to go between the amp and preamp, and one pair each to go between the X-Ray CDP and the Marantz SACDP. This little simple thing totally transformed my mid-fi system to a new level. the sound was clearer, the bottom end is better, and the soundstage is greater. The sound that is coming out of my book shelves have greater separation and air. I discovered that I had a harshness in my speakers before and that the monopriced cables colored the sound of my system. I've noticed that now I have a more balance sound from top to bottom, and before I did not have that. I am very pleased with the A+ cables. It seems they have taken my simple mid-fi up a notch.
So for all of you who have midfi, and think you cant get sound thats on another level, you can. Find some tweeks you can do, and by al means, get some good cable in your system. Try and get all of the same able if you can. It could be the missing link in your system that's preventing you from enjoying your system. I cant wait to get home from work just to sit in my easy chair with my remote. My next purchase will be the A+ speaker wires. I am totally satisfied with my sytem for now.
frenchmon