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A SoCal Inmate wrote, "Damn it, Lummy, you never talk about booze! Or any other alcohol! You're our best writer by far, but you talk about all this other s---. And you don't drink. What a f----- waste!" He then continued, "Hey, we've obviously never met in person, but my audio buds know you." He was trying the Kimber Carbon 8 speaker cable, thought it wasn't perhaps the best for his orchestral music, but thought, "This would appeal to Lummy!" So he shipped a pair to me.
I may have previously read about Kimber Kable, but this crude ad in the August 1987 Stereophile etched that company into my brain.
In summer 1987, I played basketball in a rec league in Honolulu. Most of my teammates were about to enter their sophomore year. With the peak and blazing Hawaiian heat, those 4:00p practices on the asphalt of Waialae Iki were murderous. To take your mind off of the taxing sun and heat, you watched the high school girls, practicing soccer, on the adjacent fields. Your teammate Chad came over, and said that his senior sister was on Kalani High's varsity soccer. Man, that team had a variety of ethnicities, and they were all good-looking, with better bodies than our boys basketball team. Their swinging ponytails just added to the beauty...
After practice, we had soda, which, after exercising, was awful. But better than the Inmate's alcohol :-) Hot damn, when the girls' soccer practice was over, their cooler had non-carbonated drinks, like Hawaiian Sun, Capri Sun, and Gatorade. The girls liked a new song by Glenn Medeiros (who was from Kauai), "Watching Over You." Hot damn, gimme some of that!
Back home in San Francisco, I spotted spools of raw Kimber PR and VS series speaker cable, outside of Ultimate Sound. But at school, one of the girls would bring a 2-liter bottle of soda. However, no one thought to bring cups. Thus, we all drank from the bottle. We'd also go to 7-Eleven, and get a Big Gulp. You and three girls took 4 straws, so as not to share/spread germs. Uh, um, yeah. But hey, that sense of sharing would lead to us lending and borrowing each other's cables.
When the calendar flipped to the new decade, a Kimber ad finally used a photo. This appeared in the January 1990 Stereophile, depicting the blue-and-black TC series. My future girlfriend ACS would go to UC Berkeley, work part-time at Victoria's Secret, and approve of the blue-and-black color scheme. And that partially convinced me to get some. Lame, I know, but the truth.
The Kimber Carbon 8's retail pricing scale is $380 for termination, plus $400 per stereo meter. This includes either PostMaster spades or Kimber's SBAN banana plugs. Thus, the common 2.5-meter/8-foot pair is $1380. As the Inmate above points out, that is often more than what an audiophile's amp or speaker costs. Additionally, a set of four WBT-0610Cu locking bananas, WBT-0661Cu spades, or WBT-0681Cu spades costs $160.
"Hey Lummy," writes the SoCal Inmate, "You're a child of the 80s. You know the war on drugs? Well, as the saying goes, I'm on the side of the drugs. Get yourself some goddamn booze!"
I'm sure that, when Kimber came up with the Carbon 8, they were not thinking about carbonated beverages. Regardless of what you like to drink, let's raise a toast, and see what the Carbon 8 can and cannot do.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - Kimber Carbon 8, Part 1 - Luminator 21:10:49 08/10/21 (0)
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