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Okay I now have a much better feel on what's needed to obtain a better sense of top end extension | resolution from this cord | as mentioned by Tangram, and later Chris from Kam Audio, whom both apparently love pure silver | silver plated copper respectively, I spend time earlier in replacing the blades with a Viborg VM103S Silver Plated Copper AC Male | Monosaudio F101 Copper IEC Female.

And guess what?, while the rimshots and cymbal decay weren't as sharply pronounced as with its stock gold plated brass plugs, it did take on an added sense of purpose as well as charity and speed which were lacking from said gold plated plugs, in truth it's also more natural sounding as if everything was pulled together more clearly | as well as quiet in and around notes, tomorrow I'll have in a set of Xangsane rhodium plated copper AC | IEC plugs, of which I intend to only change out the AC Male and give it a go before knowing which direction I view as absolute?, afterwards I'll exchange the Viborg VM103S Silver Plated Copper IEC Female in tandem with Monosaudio 103 Copper AC Male, yet once again I'm growing more and more fond of this cord with each passing month, and once again believe as used primarily on my source component ( DAC ) I'd be crazy to look elsewhere, so I'm calling it a lifetime and stop here, period ( Chinese junk and all ) be well guys | dolls.

After having just spent another 4 hours listening to more of my handpicked acoustic jazz tracks, and focusing my attention on how instruments like acoustic bass | piano | drums are being rendered, the combination of the silver plated copper ac male | copper iec female offer a more textural type of presentation that just sounds more truer to the source, each note comes across as more beautifully placed in time | yet with an added sense of weight as compared to the stock plugs..., there's a positive vibe to this which has definitely captured my imagination | then some.

Yet I'll conclude said task tomorrow as mentioned trying out a rhodium plated copper ac male, or which as it stands, will definitely have a very very tough act to follow | but one never knows what's possible unless they're willing to suffer through said changes, at such a saving on the cord and plugs, one could in fact do a whole lot worse for spending more, or being driven by fashion or fall into that mindset of more costlier necessity means better, when at times it's merely based upon bragging rights of which has absolutely nothing to do with an items overall musicality.

No $500-$700 sets of plugs allowed on my watch | yet sets priced at or around $150 per aren't out of the question | even then reluctancy kicks in, big time.


Edits: 01/18/24
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