AES/EBU cables?

[Bavarian05]

I went with the Transparent Cable Reference AES/EBU.

[jfrech]

We'll...what are your thoughts on these? I have the Trans Ref XL aes/ebu and clock cables (bnc's)

It was a shockingly upgrade from my prior cables (Purist) which were better than the Cardas Lightning 15 which the cardas was better than than the stock cables..

[Bavarian05]

Originally Posted by jfrech

We'll...what are your thoughts on these? I have the Trans Ref XL aes/ebu and clock cables (bnc's) It was a shockingly upgrade from my prior cables (Purist) which were better than the Cardas Lightning 15 which the cardas was better than than the stock cables..

Very interesting change. At first blush it seemed like it sounded boring... Though after listening for 10-20 minutes, I could hear considerably more details, but they didn't stand out (hopefully this makes sense). Considerably more neutral and I can turn things up a lot louder without certain frequencies standing out or irritating me. The best and simplest way I can describe it is that the fundamentals are much more apparent and sounds are way better balanced in a very good way. No frequencies jump out like before. I tried the Transparent Premium cable first and thought it was nice, but not worthy of the investment for the minor change, the Reference was worth it to me. I may end up upgrading to the XL in the future as funds allow. I have a Ultra MM2 XLR interconnect coming on Tuesday also. For perspective, I was using the standard Bryston AES/EBU cable until now. The changes I mentioned are not earth shattering, but one that had me nodding and saying oh yeah, that's better. :-)