REAL BAD NEWS FOR MOGAMI i 49'S and the whole music industry
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I wrote this thread because the home music industry has de evolved into such a night mare for the average Joe to get to real music, that i might, I thought find a good deal on a low cost wire that saves money to be used to get that 500.00 CD player, which seems about what it takes these days, although, after a not less then 90 minute warm up, on my marantz 6005, it is most enjoyable, off the 65 lossless CD's recorded to a flash drive stuck in its face.
I was sure from the get go it would be MOGAMI as a "best deal"", But as some have noted, cry as we might, the Velocity actually has bass with out a loss of mid range punch and bloom followed by a somewhat smooth treble send off and decay.
For only 20 bucks.
I have cut and saved the RCA's off way way more costly wire and trashed it.
O the Velocity,,,,I have cut off the junk plastic filled rca's and put on audio quest and gotten a real very nice performance from this wire, including the impossible to find "more bass warmth" with out more bass wobble. they were very easy to to terminate, I do hear a huge difference in wires, and can not strongly enough recommend the velocity rca's cables, if you use better rca ends,,, before buying any other 200.00 wire.
you can better secure the new ends with teflon shrink wrap and a hair dryer
I am using a analog digital driven separate power amp which stereophile raved about its analog and tight bass sound., and in the case of the marantz cd player, I am using a Cardas power cord with great results,,,so your results may very.
the cardas power cord sounds awful on my rotel BTW.
As it turns out, or so a ex employee of velocity said in a forum post,,,,, the velocity wire was made by a speaker company, there is also a ofc SILVER COATED version, tho fast disappearing and i have zero idea how it sounds.
MOGAMI IN THE HANDS OF FOOLSI spent about 250.00 bucks buying all this discount wire in search of a GEM. As said above, I cut some very nice RCA's off some of this junk and trashed the wire.
The mogami 49 is sold in rolls to music studio equipment suppliers, they terminate it and sell at order custom.
They all use not so shabby RCA's terminations.
As I cut off and saved these plugs, which i had bought from about 4 different sellers, I took note of a horrifying thing.
These different sellers were all using different ways to put the dam plugs on.
mogami has 2 ofc center wires, a dam fancy OFC shield etc.
some sellers were connecting both inner wires to male to male, shield to ground.
others were not connecting one inner wire to anything, other inner wire to male to male, shield to ground.
one seller, a big seller, was connecting both inner wires on one side, only one at the other end and shield to ground.
two companys were connecting both inner wires male to male, shield to ground, this wire was awful, these inner wires are both like 22 awg, in short it was "Monster Thick" interconnect and it sounded like real shick.
THIS MISS MATCH OF CRAP IS IN STUDIOS ALL OVER THE WORLD MAKING CD'S SOUND EVEN WORSE.
I hung for a while in the studio producers forums to do this search, all I can say is go to GEARSLUTZS and see for your self.
MOGAMI needs to clean up its policing of the people who term their wire and resell, you got about 3 different sounding wires out there epilogue, the Velocity interconnect (not Coax, that has bass issues) with good RCA's put on, is a hell of a great deal, warm, bass, big mid range bloom, smooth roll off, about $35.00 bucks re terminated.
