These are very good cables IMHO and Crimson deserves to be better known. Just a bit on the warm side and very revealing. I'd make an offer if I could use this length in my system. BTW anyone who considers buying Crimson's ICs should make sure to try their RCAs, which sound better in most systems than their XLRs - Creston Funk (a good guy) at Austin HiFi can tell you why he thinks that is.