Zu Cable Oxyfuel any good?

[Walker]

Hi, I'm looking for new interconnects, does anybody have experience with the Zu Cable Oxyfuel interconnects. I’m also looking at the Belden 1505F with Canare plugs (Blue Jeans Cable). The interconnect will be used to connect a Cambridge Audio azur 540 amp with a CA azur 540 cd-player.
Please advice.
Thanks,
Walker

[Tony_Montana]

I would go with Belden 1505F cable with Canare connectors. Very high quality stuff

[Bill L]

I use Zu WAX speaker cables and BoK power cables. Really nice for the money. Zu sells on Ebay and includes their 60 day money back guarantee. You just pay shipping if you decide to send them back.

[ToddB]

If the cable geometry you've decided you want is coax, another option is the IC from VH Audio, which uses teflon as the dielectric instead of the polyethylene used in the Zu and the BJC, and it's priced between them.

The most similarly designed ICs I've used that allowed a comparison of sound quality between teflon and PE are the Kimber Tonik and Timbre. The Tonik was .5 meter longer, and the Timbre had upgraded connectors, but overall the Timbre was such a subjective and qualitative sonic improvement over the Tonik that I simply don't believe the improved connectors were solely responsible, but rather, that it was the use of teflon that provided much of the improvement. And this is in a system with an integrated amp/CD player combo that's probably at or below the general resolution range of the combo you're using.

All of the companies have at least 30 day return policies, so you could demo them all against each other to see which one hits the best price/performance ratio for you. You'd be out the shipping, obviously, but a direct comparison is an option, if you're so inclined.

[Tony_Montana]

The most similarly designed ICs I've used that allowed a comparison of sound quality between teflon and PE [polyethylene] are the Kimber Tonik and Timbre. The Tonik was .5 meter longer, and the Timbre had upgraded connectors, but overall the Timbre was such a subjective and qualitative sonic improvement over the Tonik that I simply don't believe the improved connectors were solely responsible, but rather, that it was the use of teflon that provided much of the improvement.

If you look at dielectric properties of Teflon and Polyethylene (Constant K), they are almost identical...Teflon having Constant K of 2.1 and polyethylene's Constant being 2.2. So saying that sound improvement was because of Teflon (vs Polyethylene), might be a little over statement

[ToddB]

I totally forgot about the coax ICs built upon the Jon Risch recipe that uses Belden 89259 cable, LOL. They also use teflon, and should cost in the same price range your looking at.

[ToddB]

If you look at dielectric properties of Teflon and Polyethylene (Constant K), they are almost identical...Teflon having Constant K of 2.1 and polyethylene's Constant being 2.2. So saying that sound improvement was because of Teflon (vs Polyethylene), might be a little over statement

It's easy enough to find comments from other people who've also done listening comparisons between cables and agree that teflon sounds better than PE, so I'm comfortable with my conclusion.