Military Systems Cable Ultimate Shielding8ft Set W/Furutech FT-211 Spades & FT-212 BananasusedMilitary Systems Cable Ultimate Shielding 8ft Set W/Furutech FT-211 Spades & FT-212 Bananas Plus Interconnects @ Promo Price Of $300Would you want $10,000 speaker cables and $4000 interconnects? If you had a chance to get them both for $1300 you'd jump on them right? Don't let the price of these mislead you, they are the real d...1300.00

Military Systems Cable Ultimate Shielding 8ft Set W/Furutech FT-211 Spades & FT-212 Bananas Plus Interconnects @ Promo Price Of $300

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Would you want $10,000 speaker cables and $4000 interconnects? If you had a chance to get them both for $1300 you'd jump on them right? Don't let the price of these mislead you, they are the real deal. This package has over $600 worth of high end terminations, and would cost over $1700 at my normal prices. <br>This speaker cable is so good that I want you to hear what a truly high end interconnect sounds like when the speaker cables are letting you hear it, so I'm selling a set with this speaker cable at less than the DIY components would cost you if you were to make a set yourself. Forget the price, you will be spending way more money getting a better interconnect than this. <br>Used as speaker cable it goes up against Valhalla without breaking a sweat, I've always considered it's better because the Valhalla has a forward emphasis that is intended to make higher frequency details seem to pop out. The problem with this is that that is altering the tonal balance. Not only that but this emphasis will over emphasize harshness or edginess that is coming from interconnects. This cable is one of the most neutral cables I've ever heard, yet it maintains neutrality with an extreme level of detail and resolution. The word neutral is one of the severely misused and misunderstood words in audio. Perhaps the most pronounced misuses is where people do what to them is an extensive comparison of maybe three to four or five interconnects or speaker cables. When interconnects are compared before addressing speaker cables, it is unfortunate that comparisons mean nothing when the inferior speaker cables are altering the sound of the interconnects, or worse not revealing subtle characteristics because they are not capable of the resolution to do so. So then, after deciding which interconnects are "the best", many people will equate this standard with the best in neutrality. I talk about neutrality and people will say I have the best in neutral, or argue that neutral is subjective to what sounds best to an individual. No, neutral is a total lack of coloration, or in other words distortion that is adding or taking away from one tonal sound in a way that is not portraying all frequencies in a purely accurate manner as they were recorded. <br>Cables in a manufacturer's line of models are often created so as to sound better with solid state systems or tube systems. Any wire that has a preference is getting away from neutral, if it were neutral it has no preference for tubes or solid state, it is simply going to completely get out of the way of what the components are doing. Compensating for a rolled off softness that may be inherent with tubes may sound good with one system, but upgrading or trying different things in the future will be problematic as the cable will incorrectly interfere with your trial of the new product. People come away with the perception that they don't like a better preamp when in fact it is way better than what they have and it was skewed by a cable that didn't work with that versus the different one that it does. Neutral sounds good and works with anything, and more importantly it is what gets you toward a natural live sound. A neutral sound is easier on the ears for long and enjoyable listening sessions. The biggest complaint with super high resolution systems is that they create listener fatigue, they have a hard edge that is hard on the ears. Hey they sound phenomenal but you get tired of listening very quickly. When a system is changed to neutral wire guys find themselves pulling out things they haven't listened to for a long time, and end up spending hours at a time more than they have listened in a long time. <br>As a dealer I put a tremendous amount of time and money getting to the bottom of some of the most misunderstood questions involving cables and their relationship with the components in a system. I find it interesting that dealers and "experts" in the industry all to often either have it wrong or they choose to sell it wrong. The age old questions have interesting answers that I prove in a book I'm writing, the approach I am taking is the common sense order of the signal flow and why each one affects the one behind it. If you have a great interconnect and a mediocre one there is only one place to put the best one, between the source and the preamp. If the one that won't reveal the detail is used there anything lost is gone, nothing will bring back the detail that never made it to the preamp, if detail is lost no component can artificially synthesize what is no longer there. It can only work with super fine details that get to it, where it's job is then to amplify those super fine details to a more robust state that the amplifier can use it's horsepower to amplify it further.



  • The first big question that always pops up is how much to spend on cable in relation to the cost of the equipment. There is no "how much to spend", there is no relevance to trying to put a number to it, none. The answer has to do with what high fidelity audio is all about, do you hear a difference between a $350 I/C and an $800 one, and is that $450 making a bigger difference than a $5000 preamp would? If that difference is bigger it's a no brainer to say that the $500 spent on cable makes way more sense than upgrading the components. Added to that equation is the fact that buying a preamp that costs thousands of dollars without upgrading the interconnect first will leave you with a preamp that isn't coming close to it's performance potential. Yes it will make a difference but it might be a disappointing one. Do the interconnect first and the difference in a better preamp will be much more profound. Speaker cable being last in the chain of signal flow lets you hear more of the detail in the upstream changes. If the speaker cable doesn't reveal super fine detail you will not hear differences in interconnects that are there. Take virtually any system including decent budget components, and take the amount of any component upgrade like a preamp at $2000, and the difference in applying that same $2000 to a complete wire upgrade will profoundly outperform the component with the old wire. Take a jump to a $5000 preamp and apply the $5000 to wire including good performance leading power cords that can be had for Under $1000, in fact there are excellent $500 power cords, and it will make ten times the difference. No component change will ever perform better than a cable upgrade throughout the system, you are not done with cable until there are no upgrades that haven't hit the point of diminishing performance return for the money spent. Then upgrading components will be far more rewarding because you will be hearing 95% of what they can do versus no revelation of what they are all about. Wire is the key to being able to hear what higher end audio is all about.


  • Another big area of contention surrounds cable versus equipment, and which to buy first, better components or better wire. As a dealer I constantly had audiophiles who had been upgrading equipment for years, spending tens of thousands of dollars without ever going beyond the $200 interconnects and sub $1000 speaker cables they started with and perhaps made some minor upgrade to Vampire or Monster. power cords, what power cords, how could power cords even make a difference, they are still using the ones that came with the components. Often I was up against customers who were ready to spend $12,000 on new speakers when they already had great speakers that cost them $10k or more. I tried to talk them into spending half on wire, and was usually successful on the grounds that if it didn't knock their socks off I'd give them their money back, that never happened. What did was that they were so blown away by the difference cable made, that they asked what even better cable would do, I'd take that cable back and upgrade them further or go on to very nice power cords, then we would go to higher performance cables. Once a person hears what select interconnects and speaker cable does they are sold on improving it to whatever levels they can afford. Not only that, but the differences in better components are much more easy to discern. I have seen bad amplifier choices made because highly colored mid grade $3500 cables (three for tri amp speakers) were altering the way the amps sounded to a degree that five different amps sounded so much different that the guy made compromises in what he wanted . I gave him three pairs of five hundred dollar apiece cables to replace the $3500 apiece Transparent cables he had so he could revisit the amps he had tried. He found that every amp sounded great to where it was a choice between which one he liked best versus which one had the least objectionable faults and deficiencies. He said he would never have believed that cables could so profoundly trash the way electronics sounded. Poor cable choices as a foundation of building a high end system will forever alter the choices you make in electronics and speakers, get it right and this can be a super rewarding experience every time you make an upgrade.

I know that once you get a taste of a truly great speaker cable and key interconnect you are going to want to get another interconnect if you need two, and you will be ready to move into great power cords. The key to power cords is that they make huge differences when the interconnects and speaker cable are excellent. When they are substandard they make a difference but much of where they shine is not there. <br>I'll be making this set up so it can be getting a few days on a cable cooker, I want this to be ready to sound closer to it's best when you get it. It actually sounds good enough to beat Valhalla from the start, and I have had several customers who had that in super high resolution systems who agree. If you need a longer or shorter set I can make it with these terminations and put it on a cable cooker for three days. That just gets you a couple of hundred hours ahead of what playing them in a system does, but it also exposes the cables to a full signal spectrum. <br>Shipping will be $15.00 for priority, it's been costing me more like $20+ insured. I can run credit cards through my wife's veterinary clinic. I have always sold cable with a money back guarantee. There flat is no cable on the market that will outperform this at less than double or triple the price, and most that comes close will cost multiples more. Those who have the likes of Nordost Valhalla may need some time getting used to the idea of neutral versus an edge emphasized cable that is making detail seem more pronounced at the expense of tonal balance. One reviewer for stereophile or the absolute sound needed a couple of months going back and forth between Valhalla and a neutral speaker cable and found himself liking neutral, especially where evaluating interconnects is concerned. I have had guys with extreme systems keep a set of this cable for evaluating and comparing differences in upgrades because they understand that this has a neutrality others normally don't.

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Since cables go through a break in period I expect that they be given the chance to be used for a couple hundred hours. Also soldering ends or terminations can radically alter the neutral character of the cable. If it takes longer than 30 days to give them a fair chance I will still honor my money back guarantee.