0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Read 4969 times.
Your Silkworms are almost ready to go, I'll notify you when they ship. As for the Fireflys, they are a really nice cable but be forewarned.....they are quick, very quick and ruthlessly revealing, lesser front end equipment need not apply! I think you'll find they aren't "etchy or grainy" like some silver can sound but none the less, they'll let you know how clean the water is upstream! Please keep me posted on your thoughts.
Did you receive your CNC machine yet? Do you plan to post a pic of it when you do? I for one would like to see a photo if you get a chance.
I'm pretty sure I fall most under the category of listener who wants as revealing a system as possible. That's why I'm really interested in the silver IC's.Transparency is what I pursue.
Hi, To tell you the truth, those soundbolts are just beginning there journey. Come back to us inn a couple hundred hours, and report your findings.I too am using them, and have noticed some neat things about them. I'll wait awhile before my review.Ray I took John up on his group buy of Kool Cables for ac members and ordered a pair of Sound Bolts from him with Eichmann Silver Bullets. With Kool Cables review in Stereo Mojo’s covering the high end Silk Worm’s I thought that I would do a little review of the other end of the Kool Cable line of products his Sound Bolt’s for those of us whose pockets are not quite so deep. The cables were waiting for me Saturday when I got home for work Yea!!! The appearance of the cables and workmen ship is very good with a neat and trim look which I like. They are nice and flexible which is good for me as there is not a lot of room behind my stereo rack for big heavy cables I have a What I call I call an Audio Circle system either I bought from a dealer who has a circle on AC, AV123 Onix cd-3, Odyssey - Mono Extremes SE, Groneberg speaker cable (Klaus Bunge is a class act), Selah audio Tanzanite’s, or bought from a member of AC, Rogue Magnum 99. Pre. I even bought the plugs and wires for my power cords from DIYCABLE and VH audio and ACI. What can I say I like to spread my money around? To evaluate these cables and any change in my system I used the same method I would use in changing a major component I grabbed a couple of my favorite CD’s and refreshed my memory by Listening these tracks, before changed the interconnects. I used the following tracks to discern any change to the systemThis Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren, There is just a lot of layers to this song that are lost without good equipmentDead can dance - Towards the within – RakimCassandra Wilson - New moon Daughter - Death Letter. Was a tossup here between this and Nina Simone’s Put a little sugar in my bowl. As I love the vocal on bothEagles – Hotel California - Hotel California The Sound Bolts replaced the Interconnects between my CD player and pre. I will just say the cables I took out were a home brew using good parts Canare L-2T2S wire and Canare RCA’s and WBT silver solder. Now to the good part I found that the Sound Bolts in my system gave me dead quite sound floor that allowed the music to better flow thru the system. There was just that little extra, bells and symbols had a sharper faster attack. Vocals were just that little bit more dynamic with a new clarity that I had not noticed before. Was the difference world shattering no, but being one of those guys that tends to think that a cable is a cable, and all the hype about this cable does this and is better than that is just some guys trying to justify spending all that money I was pleasantly surprised that Kool Cables “Sound Bolts” actually improved the sound of my system. For the money they are an outstanding value.
Just received 2 pairs of John's Silkworm interconnects for our LS-9 speaker demo that's coming up.They're made every bit as nicely as the Firefly interconnects that I received last week.They come with a certificate that certifies that they are authentically made from 99.998 % 24k Gold wire. Nice job. Here's a pic:Now I just gotta find the time to listen to 'em... Thanks again John,Cheers
Yeah, it'll be fun. Gold vs Silver vs Copper.I'm eager to give it a whirl. Cheers
I was one of the reviewers, and am now the owner of an all Silkworm system, I'll echo what Ray says Denny, these take a bit of time to run in, maybe John will weigh in, but I'd say at least 150 hours until they stopped changing on me and sounded pretty much the same every time I listened to them....but the Sikworm and Mandarina are exceptional, I get to hear the Soundbolt this weekend for the first time so I'm pretty interested in hearing those next to the Silkworm....I had the Firefly, but didn't really run them in too much, and am just not a fan of pure silver in my system anyway...YMMV of course with the different conductors, but what won't is John's first rate workmanship, all of these are real beauties and built really solidly...
