wait to get everything out of the box and inspected for any possible damage duringtransit. My initial thought was to go full bore and put all cables into my system at once.However, I tempered my enthusiasm and decided to do this in a more orderly manner. Ialso kept in mind comments made by David Salz, head guru/designer at <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong>,when he advised that the benefit of hearing the full sonic signature of his cables wouldbest be served by installing incrementally but also in a relatively short time span.With this in mind, the interconnect cables were first up for installation. With these cablesinstalled and after only about a day of continuous signal processing – there was a definiteand distinct difference from my long-time reference cables. Nothing dramatic but clearlya difference. As such, my initial reaction was very positive and this is just the beginning.Later with the digital cable installed, and some additional break-in time, similardifferences were observed compared to my reference digital cable. With continuedlistening along with putting my reference cables back in for quick comparison– clearlywhat I was hearing impressed me considerably even though fundamentally, I wasn’tanxious nor quite ready to give up on my reference cables. As such - I decided to allowthe <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong> cables additional time for further conditioning before making any finaljudgments on their overall performance – particularly on a comparative basis. Truly myreference cables weren’t chopped liver, are highly regarded in the industry and haveprovided me with hundreds/ thousands of hours of listening enjoyment.With a quick check back to the folks at <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong>, I was assured that there would not bea long drawn out and disruptive break in period required to get these cables performingat their highest level. In fact, I was further assured that these cables would actually startto come into their own in a reasonably short period of time. The only caveat and advicereceived was that once the cables were installed and properly dressed – it would be bestto try and not physically disturb them by either taking them in and out or possiblymoving them around. This was so noted and I basically followed this advice.Later I installed the special bi-wire speaker cables and allowed them time to break inwith music signal running through them. Additionally, I elevated them from my carpetedfloor with cable lifters as well. In a relatively short period of time, these cables were
producing noticeable changes compared to my reference cables and to my ears – theoverall experience was very rewarding. In fact, I was so impressed that I simply forgotabout anything other than allowing myself to enjoy the new and improved sound of mysystem. From there I started pulling out many of my longtime favorite recordings that Ihadn’t listened to in quite some time only to be impressed with the revelation of manysubtle and hidden sonic treasures that I was essentially unaware of during earlierlistening.FURTHER OBSERVATIONS & GENERAL IMPRESSIONSIn the past, I’ve had opportunities to install <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong> cables in my system with theresults always being consistently positive. In fact, despite the many years that havepassed by, I still have very fond memories of their earlier Gold <strong>Eclipse</strong> Series III+ cableswith their strong presentation through the bass region, as well as providing beautifulmusic through the critical midrange and upper frequencies. But that was then and this isnow. Putting the newer <strong>Platinum</strong> series cables into my system brought back a flood ofthose positive memories but the really good news is that I was quickly elevated to aneven higher order of critical listening almost instantly and it was clearly evident thatthese newer cables were truly something quite special.I am also well aware of how sometimes initial impressions can be misleading – eitherpositive or negative. Fortunately, with these cables and as the cables fully settled into mysystem, the sound improved and became even better. The dreaded long break-in timerequired with many cables I’ve experienced previously, just wasn’t there. In fact, judgingfrom this experience – Salz was right on target and after reaching a certain level ofperformance, I really didn’t notice any further change in the overall sonic performance ofthese cables. What I was experiencing was very impressive and also quite thrilling.Much of my critical listening with these cables was done with the truly outstanding andsuperbly high resolution YGA Anat Studio speakers in place. The combination of <strong>Wire</strong><strong>World</strong> interconnects, digital cable and speakers, along with my reference electronics,produced such an enhanced level of clarity and overall resolution that it was instantlyobvious that subtle musical nuances had become clearly more noticeable and in a verymusically involving way. In addition to the heightened sense of resolution – the entiresound field had become quieter, more open with instruments (and vocals) floating inspace and across the stage appropriately positioned. I also want to make the point thatwhat became obvious, to my ears, wasn’t simply a matter of improved detail, clarity andresolution but a noticeable diminishment of smearing. At first it was hard for me to putmy finger on exactly what was happening. However, after repeatedly going back andforth, I became aware that what was happening was the elimination of subtle traces ofveiling and ever so slight masking. This was clearly noticeable especially with theinterconnects but then as I moved to the digital cable and finally the speaker cables – Iknew for sure that the <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong> cables were responsible for thins noticeably improvedsonic performance. At that point - I was hooked. Beyond this, imaging was spot on withsuperb three dimensionality including width, height and depth as well as accurateplacement of all musical sounds on the stage.Bottom line – these cables provided a kind of special magic that I really wasn’t preparedto experience. Without question – these new <strong>Wire</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Platinum</strong> <strong>Eclipse</strong> cables were atthe heart of these improvements with the overall the sound possessing enhancedrefinement and finesse that helped give reproduced music a more convincing andauthentic sonic character. For some additional workout and auditioning, I also installedthese cables in a completely different audio rig than my reference system. The resultswere not only highly satisfying – the sonic performance level of that particular systemwas enhanced well beyond anything subtle or marginal in terms of sonic improvements.In particular, and similar to the experience in my reference system, the overall level ofmusicality was quite compelling. Once again, overall transparency, cleanliness, clarity,resolution and dynamics rose to heightened levels of improvement and without any
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