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I like a variety of interconnects for better mixing and matching of components. I stopped buying them quite a long time ago when I needed to go further than some of the great value cables of the time could take me...Decware Silver, Grover, Reality, nice MAC ICs....all are quite good for the money, and all have a different sound, which I liked. But looking at popular parts, I figured I could make cables for similar cost or less, with world-class parts, and refined to personal taste by experimenting with geometry, different wire sizes and metals. So I learned to solder better and started making cables that were notably better at a similar cost.
Right now I have in: Neotech silver/gold signal, and Kimber pure copper returns helixed around a cotton rope with KLE Absolute ends; Duelund round silver/oiled cotton, signal and ground twisted, and Duelund Rhodium RCA ends; and one pair with Balanced Neutrik silver connectors on the DAC end, Mundorf silver/gold signal with Jupiter 6N copper return lightly twisted and shielded with tinned copper, hardwired to my "Zbit" transformers.
I also have a Mundorf silver/gold RCA pair made similarly to the Neotechs that I rotate in often, with a Neotech braided copper/cotton ground, and KLE Pure Silver ends. And several variations of VHAudio pure silver recipe with KLE ends that I used for years, and still use, but use less lately.
These are all really good, each with different flavors of revealing, body, complexity, etc... all musical. Variations, well placed, contribute to better synergy with DAC/ZBIT/CSP/Torii, and all together, different flavors contribute to complexity and sweet beauty.
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