this allows me to use a very open, honest cable like the Valhalla that may be too much truth for some less neutral systems. i try for neutrality and energy balance (as i'm sure everyone else does too)in the room so i can have my components as close to neutral as possible. otherwise, changing one acoustical perameter could invalidate your cable choice. bass balance, bass integration, and reflection control should first be optimized before the cable issue is dealt with. Generally i think that cables should only be involved in the final step of system/room balance and should not be expected to do the "heavy lifting" of solving big acoustical imbalances.
whenever i have felt like i had it all figured out, along comes some revelation that shows me i was fooling myself. i am always interested in performance improvements so i will keep my mind open. Until i listen to the Kharma cables in my room and compare them directly with my Valhalla/Opus i won't know if there indeed is a special synergy than will outperform my cables on the Kharma Exquisites. i think Don needs to choose speakers first and then experiment with cables if he needs to (but i doubt he will need to). when i tried the Jena Labs in my room on the Exquisites the tonal balance was very good. there is no question that the Valhalla/Opus in my room is faster, more neutral, and more open than even the Jena Labs but in my room the balance is just right to my ears.so what seemed too lean with the Jena Labs in the systems Don listened to.is just fine with the Exquisites in my room. no CES room can have the TLC a long-term room can have. at CES i did listen to the Grand Ceramiques and Exquisites both on Lamm amps and Kharma cables and while they sounded very nice i vastly prefer the sound in my room with the Tenor,Opus and Valhalla.faster, more open, better bass integration, more natural tonal balance.but there were so many other differences between systems it is very difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions. the Jena Labs are probably closer to "neutral" and in some systems might not be as ideal as the Kharma cable.of course, the reverse would be sometimes true.
the Kharma cables are said to have a similar toneality to the Siltech, somewhat on the slightly "dark" side of ultimate neutrality. i have not heard Kharma cables yet in my room (i am suppose to be recieving the Kharma Enigma cables for audition soon) so i can't comment on those. his recent travels and listening perceptions just go to prove how system-dependant everything is. Tim, i talked to Jonathan and Don this week and we talked about a possible trip out here and his speaker quest. Which leads me to my cable question to you, he(Don) went and listened to some Kharma's- Grande Cermique's and he took his system with him, and didn't care for the sound with his Jena Valkyre cables, but when the Kharma cables were installed he felt it was much less lean, do you think that the Kharma cables are a "band-aid" so to speak for their speakers? Or is it possible that the Jena cables are lean sounding, thus mating poorly with the kharma's? He also runs the Tenor Mono's) well he and I may be planning a trip out to your neck of the woods, Jonathan has a lot of stuff he wants us to see. Mike- You know my buddy Don(the fellow who is on a quest to find new speakers-replacing his Verity's, I think you know him. I have seen pictures of Mike's system and he has some tube traps and I am sure a lot more stuff that I haven't seen, and more then a few people have told me that he has the best sounding system they have ever heard(people whom I trust in this hobby). Room interaction should be taken into consideration, if you have a bright room, room treatment is what I would do before I commit to a cable with a certain "voice", get the room sounding as good as you can and start feathering in the cables you want to try. I agree with Jacpii(along with what everyone else said), it really depends what you like in your sound, one man's lean is another's rich.
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