Xangsane IC's Revisited - Reimagined.
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| Posted on April 24, 2024 at 15:18:25 | ||
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Location: Michigan Joined: September 6, 2003 |
 Hi All, As I had honestly felt my adventures with cabling had reached its end, thanks goes out to both Tangram | B Shaw over on Head-Fi.org of which both having sparked my interest in the use of pure silver as well as the use of tellurium copper based designs with silver plating over them as far as connectors go, here I'm referring to RCAs | Binding Post | RCA Inputs | Banana Plugs, as both use different pairs of my much beloved | cherished Xangsane IC's, it seems fitting I'd pay attention to what each had to say as it relates to the use of said connectors placed onto these actual IC's, and logically as always both made perfect sense, as my in-depth research into the types of connectors used by Audio Note ( both UK | Japan under the banner of Kondo ) rely upon heavily plated silver connectors, the more and more I thought about it, it became one of those rare 4th in my lifetime "WTF" moments. This led me to think of my fondness on the WBT NextGen silver | copper based designs of which I've had placed onto three different pairs of Litz pure silver IC's from the likes of Yannis Audio Analogue Cable Designs in England, as opposed to brands like KLEI or Starline, which use the low mass approach, as compared to manufacturers like Viborg | certain Furutech types, even looked closer at the connectors used by Cardas Audio ( of which I've also owned, and loved even though their base metals were brass ) it seems worthwhile to investigate said offerings, which has lead me to look at various shops located here as well as across Europe | Japan which all specialize in selling various brands of connectors | passive parts for one's electronics, and it seems that while there aren't many manufacturers of pure silver connectors as compared to say rhodium ones, with the known to me exceptions being Wirewoo | Viborg | Bocchino | Authentic Audio Image | CopperColour, ( all priced between say $300-$500 for their AC Plugs ), as well as custom requested ones from Monosaudio, it came full circle in my case to the offerings from the company called Aeco from Taiwan which offers pure silver rca connectors | binding post, where I intend to use their ARP-1533 Pure Silver RCA connectors | $220 the pair onto the Xangsane SP-9003Ag ( which remains my favorite of the two ) | a pair of their model ARP-1512S Tellurium Copper Silver Plated RCA | $70 per pair, on the SP-9001Ag, at which point, I'll be replacing my sole pair of rca inputs on both my music server | integrated amps with a pair of Aeco ARJ-4045S Silver Plated Tellurium Copper Chassis Input Connectors | $40 Pair.  And while I'm aware that some seem to be rather sensitive to the sounds of either pure silver or silver plated copper, and I've read that some don't feel the latter is appropriate as signal cables of which I see as absolute BS, lest companies like NordOst or AAI ( Authentic Audio Image ) among quite a few brands of late using it in their IC's | SCs | PCs designs wouldn't be in existence, now would they?, yet for those with more sensitive ears ( hearing ) I'd say at the very least, why not look into changing out your binding post to the un-plated copper Cardas Audio type of which I've used | loved since having placed them onto both solid state | tube amplifiers since 1993, toss in a set of either Viborg or Monosaudio Copper RCA Connectors and Input Jacks ( screw down carbon fiber version on the former ) | Copper Banana Plugs and call it a lifetime. In the end it came down to trying to best understand the synergy requirements of using either pure silver or silver plated copper wiring throughout my two systems, as it relates to plating types, or at the very least a base metal like Tellurium or Beryllium Copper which offers a slightly different sound as compared to the more commonly found Red Copper offerings of late..., as said attention to the smallest of details as far as bringing it all together matters to me more at this stage ( age ) in life as to only once again bring about a more long term satisfaction from the electronics as they reside, as I'm just not one to wish to change them out unless they're in need of repair, and even then that's why I've always been a hoarder of sort when it comes to owning upwards of 5 different pairs of speakers | integrated amps | IC's | SCs and the occasional PCs, but relying upon just the main three digital sources ( including a single DAC | two dedicated music servers ) if these were to die tomorrow, I won't miss a beat and resort to placing a Mac Mini back into use, hence logicalky having three Nv Me 2 SSD drives already loaded with my entire music collection placed onto them, it's the music I'd fear losing more than anything, as it has taken me all of 16 years to have built said collection standing at 59.378 tracks, of which as far as my aging memory goes, I'd more than likely have forgotten over 2/3rd of them otherwise. It seems the Creator wasn't quite finished with me, as I had originally thought | so let the journey continue as planned.
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