The Great WyWires Eastern US Cable Tour is about to start...

carusoracer · « **Reply #20 on:** 4 Nov 2010, 05:07 pm »

Any reports from the tour participants?

mjosef · « **Reply #21 on:** 4 Nov 2010, 06:33 pm »

Quote from: carusoracer on 4 Nov 2010, 05:07 pm

Any reports from the tour participants?

Huh...did it start already? I don't think so.

wywires · « **Reply #22 on:** 4 Nov 2010, 06:37 pm »

Has not started yet...The box of wires will go to the #1 on the list mid next week.

Alex

wywires · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 Nov 2010, 05:54 pm »

Finally...The box of wires is going to be shipped today to #1 on the list: Martin J. I acquired an AudioDharma cable cookier last week and have been cooking all the cable so they should arrive fairly well burned in. As always though, they will need some time to settle in to their new environment.

The box will contain:

2 6 foot PC's
1 10 foot PC
2 4 foot RCA IC's
1 5 foot balanced IC
1 pair of 9 foot speaker cables with bananas on the speaker end and spades on the amp end.

eclein · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 Nov 2010, 07:35 pm »

Very cool stuff going on with these cables... they are excellent. Enjoy!!!

carusoracer · « **Reply #25 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 01:26 pm »

Good news Alex,

The Cable Cookers do make a difference. Looking forward to hearing the full compliment of your Line up.

jriggy · « **Reply #26 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 02:44 pm »

Excellent! Was just wondering yesterday... Lookin' forward.

~J

jriggy · « **Reply #27 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 04:33 pm »

Wait... So only one pair of RCA'a are included? Or should I be reading that as 2 pairs? I hope so, or there will be no way to tell how the cables do all the way through a system unless you have balanced from pre to amp.

Gopher · « **Reply #28 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 04:35 pm »

I didn't get your confusion at first, but I gotcha now. Yes, I'm pretty sure when Alex says he's sending two interconnects he mans two pairs as opposed to two strands.

wywires · « **Reply #29 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 05:34 pm »

2 4 foot IC's means 2 PAIRS of IC's. Sorry about the confusion...

wywires · « **Reply #30 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 05:35 pm »

Likewise, the XLR cable is a PAIR

wywires · « **Reply #31 on:** 22 Nov 2010, 07:31 pm »

Quote from: jriggy on 22 Nov 2010, 04:33 pm

Wait... So only one pair of RCA'a are included? Or should I be reading that as 2 pairs? I hope so, or there will be no way to tell how the cables do all the way through a system unless you have balanced from pre to amp.

You are #2 on the list and #1 will receive the cables tomorrow.

Alex

mjosef · « **Reply #32 on:** 27 Nov 2010, 05:18 am »

The package arrived here this past Monday, and I have been slowly incorporating the wire into my system.
First to go in was an IC in between the EE-DAC and CAT pre amp. This replaced a Grover SX (least fav. of my Grovers), I heard more small/micro stuff going on within the music that I didn't notice before. Very nice.
The next day I tried the speaker cables on my VMPS 626R. I thought I 'lost' some of the magic, the next day I went back to my stock SC, and tried the second IC between my pre and Jolida 102b amp. Mhnnn, at first I thought it was too good of a thing, way too much of everything...but I left it in until today when I moved the IC between the DAC and pre to directly connect the Sherwood 871 SACD player to the pre, replacing a MAC Aq IC which went onto the DAC/Pre. Follow up to follow.

I discovered later (yesterday, THursday) that I might have had the speaker cables hooked up in reverse...I had the spades on the speaker end, which is how I prefer my SC since I can tighten the speaker lugs better(tighter) than I can on the amp end, where I usually connect the banana ends. So I will revisit the speaker cables again over the weekend. And I will be testing the power cables in the next couple days also.

wywires · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Nov 2010, 03:59 pm »

Just to clarify, orientation of the cables should be they way they were burned in - the OUTPUT end of each cable has a length of heat shrink with the WyWires, LLC printed on it. Also the speaker cable was not cooked on the cable cooker but was in my system for about 20 hours so will need additional time. Even with cooked cables, additional time is required to settle in to any system.

werd · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Nov 2010, 06:14 pm »

I wasn't sure about the speaker cables at first. It took about a week for me to get use to the different presentation. I got more bass out of my speaker cable but i found the quality to be better out of the wywires. My experience is the speaker and power cables are both excellent but are taste oriented. The rca's are his signature cable and a must have imo. They are very nice and organic with extremely low sibilance. They are also very tweak able and you can get the sound you want by putting in different power and speaker cables. Go with xhadow over the neutrik. The xhadow are more neutral.

bacobits1 · « **Reply #35 on:** 7 Dec 2010, 03:15 pm »

Where are the comments?
It's been long enough.

D

jriggy · « **Reply #36 on:** 7 Dec 2010, 03:18 pm »

I think it just got underway and they are on their way to me, or will be very soon...

Jason

eclein · « **Reply #37 on:** 7 Dec 2010, 03:46 pm »

I'm curious also, anybody who has these or had them how do they sound??

wywires · « **Reply #38 on:** 7 Dec 2010, 04:40 pm »

They were shipped to jriggy or will go out this week.

mjosef · « **Reply #39 on:** 7 Dec 2010, 10:33 pm »

Jason, its due at your address on Thursday. USPS Priority / signature required.
They "sound" good.

I'll flesh out my impressions later tonight.