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Originally Posted by Boom Boom

I have 4 weeks on my humble Super level Gen 6s (672 hours). Yesterday while watching the Olympics I noticed the sound improved some more. This was a pleasant surprise. My experience with Transparent is they really need a long time to break in.

I've been dealing with hardness in television broadcaster voices. Sound tended to be hard. Yesterday I noticed this went away. These sounds are more relaxed, more resolved. Cables are really coming along. Compared to my old Gen 1's I notice more nuances in the backing vocals and accompanying musicians. It is easier to hear techniques that the musicians are doing such as fingers on guitar strings, piano notes from key strikes to the hammer on the strings, to the decay in the piano box. Male opera arias are reproduced effortlessly. I'll do more critical listening after the Olympics.

I am so happy with the results I ordered a second balanced interconnect to use with my new DAC (my Bryston is still on back order).

Did you move up from Plus? I had an in-store Gen 5 comparison with Plus and Super IC, and the difference didn't seem that big. The Super was a bit more dynamic, perhaps. But, it was unfamiliar equipment, so that may have skewed things. I do have Gen 6 Plus speaker cable and like it. Gen 6 may be a different beast, though. I also compared Gen 5 Plus speaker cable to Kimber 12TC, and preferred the Plus by a hair. Other than being a bit smoother on top, the Plus sounded the same as the Kimber to me. I remain curious about the Super, though I can't go there right now.