The "Wire we Here?" Blog and Forum
Hello all, new guy here. Nice layout. Looks like a great place to gather info and ask questions. I began an upgrade to my sound systems 6 years ago and it has been a work in progress ever since.
My HT setup is a 6.4.2 fed by a Marantz AVR with a 12 and 10 inch sub.
I am first and foremost a vinyl guy. Vinyl spins on a highly upgraded Rega Planar 6 with a Sutherland phono stage. Phono stage is fed to a preamp and mono block power amps. Monitor speakers paired with REL powered subs. I don't stream but I do have a small collection of CDs. While I'm in the process of upgrading my digital sources I currently feed a CD transport via DAC to the preamp along with a front channel preout from the AVR to the preamp.
After purchasing the above listed equipment I began to upgrade cables.
My first set of cables were the LC-1 interconnects along with a spdif coax, and two HT sub cables from BJC.
Years later I purchased the iconoclast/bav REL speaker cables for the pair of REL subs. I was so impressed by those cables that I then purchased a pair of the BAV speaker cables and a single BAV speaker cable for the center channel in my HT setup.
All of this brings me to my latest purchase. Stereo pair of Iconoclast XLR (etpc), stereo pair of BAV XLR and a single BAV spdif cable. As time permits I will give feedback on this most recent purchase in the appropriate sections of the forum.
As a side note I went into each and every cable purchase as a very strong skeptic that I would be able to hear any difference or improvement in performance. Boy did that ever turn out to be a false assumption.
Happy listening all
@edmund Hi Edmund, thanks for the great post and comments. We're happy to see you step-up to the Iconoclast IC! Thanks again for the post. Our forum is new and we are happy to have participation and we're glad to have a member of the Iconoclast family.
Hello everyone, I have finally figured out how to use the forum so you can hear the view from the shop floor. I hope you like oversharing and obscure music references!!
They glow!
Those boxes are classy and distinctive. Consider making them up as embossed tin boxes, adding a thin red edging, Galen's signature toward the bottom, and a sheet of tissue paper inside to wrap the cables. The Chinese are masters at these kind of elegant boxes. They make all different shapes and designs to sell foods and teas by the millions. Kind of like the French are masters at elegant shopping bags.
You could sell them as swag "collectors items". Anyone ordering cables could add them on as an additional cost packaging for $10 or 15. Swag purchases would only be allowed to owners of Iconoclast cables. I am not rich, but I, and I'll bet a lot of others would purchase them for our Iconoclast cables for $15. (It might also help purchasers' later resale to list cables for sale with the collector boxes.) Also, when cables are sent out to reviewers, it would look great.
Yes, the boxes were kind of a cool experiment. We need to make boxes that are more flexible (pun there) for our stiffest speaker cables down to the flexible RCA's. Nice boxes are expensive, and we want to keep cost to the PRODUCT that is doing the work in your system, but ya, I have an ICONOCLAST experimental box in my window too! When we are famous and have higher sales, maybe we can get QTY to add boxes economically.
Galen