Very well balanced LOW, MIDS & HIGHS!!!

NONE

**Music Metre Canto are excellent interconnects!**

I performed several blind comparisons between my 0.5M Audioquest's Python & my 0.5M Music Metre Audio Canto; I just ended-up guessing about which interconnect I had last installed. Try the comparison yourself... Just keep randomly changing between cables after every "listen". Then, give your rig a sincere listen after your mind has moved onto things other than Audio Cables. (If remembering interconnects isn't the most important thing in your life...you'll soon forget which cable you installed last).
Try to always listen to your favorite song played from your favorite source, at the exact same volume level (mark your volume setting), then decide if you can sicerely hear a "difference" in the quality of musicality for yourself. Try this "blind/change&forget" comparison especially through Headphones. Given my gear, I couldn't tell the Canto apart from the Audioquest Python.

dedicated small independent shops increase the performance/price ratio of most highend & ultra-highend audio gear. Quality audio innovations are usally introduced by the "small-shop" innovators. Jim at Music Metre Ausio Cables has always been fair, sincere & reasonable. Music Metre continues to produce quality musical cables precisely becasue of their attention to quality build, fair value, & musicality. We consumers benefit most from shops like Music Metre Audio Cables' dedication to a fairly priced quality audio cables.

However Beware!!! ... Before you purchase "USED" Music Metre interconnects, make certain that they are terminated with proper Music Metre terminations. Jim Patric is always willing to field questions about Music Metre cables.

See:( www.musicmetre.com )

*** Bryston B-60, Ah! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 (Amprex Bugel Boy tubes) & Grado RS-1 ***

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MUSICMETRE:signature.

neutrality, openess, harmonich richness

none that I have become aware of

This is a review of the Music Metre Silver interconnects. Currently there is no place for such a review within the existing categories, and so, given that I wanted to get the word out on these exceptional interconnects, I am occupying a bit of space usually reserved for the Canto. If a new category for the Silver is made available, I will shift my remarks to it.

I have been in this hobby for thirty years and have tried lots of cables and cable combinations at every imaginable price point. I had owned Music Metre signatures at one point including their speaker cable, and was very pleased with their performance. Most recently I had become enamored of the Mapleshade line -- especially in the Double Helix configuration. I was very pleased with the Mapleshade which remain a tremendous bargain at the price. They are just a bit shy in the bass, but are transparent and open, just the slightest bit on the warm side of neutral. I found them equal to some of my favorites -- including the Baton, again, not a well known brand, but a very good cable with a good bottom end and great harmonic richness.

I was reluctant to abandon the Mapleshade, but an opportunity to bid on a pair of MM Silver arose and since my tube equipment had faired well with audio note silver in the past, I thought I would make a bid. I won the auction, and when the silver arrived I put it between the DAC (Audio Note) and the preamp (Transcendent Grounded Grid). What a revelation. Information galore, but captured in a musically informative way: well balanced from top to bottom. Transparent and fast: as fast as XLO without the bleach. I soon contacted Jim Patric and I arranged purchases of two more interconnects, as well as the Fidelius Digital Interconnect. More on that in the Fidelius section once I have gotten the full measure of it. I had been hesitant to put the MM silver between the phono stage and the GG since the former is solid state. I ought not to have been. Unlike other experiences I have had with silver interconnects, the MM worked beautifully with the Welborne phono. No tizzle or sizzle on top. No edge. Lots of musically coherent information. I have a system that oozes speed and transparancy and the MM cables are up to the task. I worry about cables that provide information that fails to fall into a musical whole. The MM silver are as coherent as any I have heard. My amp is an OTL and I worry that a silver cable might have created a somewhat bleached presentation. Have no fear. The MM silver captures the harmonics of the music leading to a full bodied and tonally accurate musical experience -- from top to bottom. Right now, I am still using the Mapleshade Double Helix speaker cable, which is excellent, but it is only a matter of time before I become a full MM man.
As if there were not enough, Jim Patric is a great person to deal with directly. No tricks, no bull. Just honesty and professionalism. In addition, he stands behind his products. Beyond that, all his products -- including the Silver interconnects -- are fairly priced. On a real budget, you cannot go wrong with Mapleshade, but for exceptional quality at very, very reasonable prices -- indeed not much more expensive than Mapleshade -- you cannot beat Music Metre Silver.

Rest of system
Oris 200 Horns with AER-Bd drivers and Onken bass enclosures
(For those of you who think the Avantgarde Duo is the way to go, have a listen to what is much better and much less expensive)
Transcendent T-16 OTL (terrific amp if you only need 15 watts)
Transcendent Grounded Grid line stage (everyone knows about this by now)
Welborne SS Reveille Phono stage (haven't made up my mind yet: very good, flexible, solidly built. I use with a Glider and Denon 103. Where are the great phono stages (at reasonable prices??) Better than EAR and LP2, but not by much)
Parasound Belt Drive transport
Audio Note DAC 1.1 with upgrade power supply. The DAC to have while the world sorts itself out -- unless you are a believer in upsampling.

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mapleshade, nordost, baton, tara, transparent, audio note

Cheap if you get them used.

You name it. Weak bass, feeble treble. forward soundstage with dynamic jazz and rock.

I got these second hand on Audiogon, and now I Know why. They are over priced garbage. I could not believe I paid 220 bucks used for these, as I think they aren't on a par with my AQ Opal that run between my tape deck and preamp. I'm trying to learn about cables, so I took a look at these after I knew I wasn't going to use them, and now I know why they stink...they are nothing but bare wire run from one connector to another, covered in cheap woven sleeve. Maybe some think this "air" around the wires is important, but the sound is incoherent and unnatural. If you have a narrow soundstage, you might not notice, but with my Martin Logans, it is obvious that these are vague in instrument placement, and muddled in the harmonics of single string and wood instruments. If you can get these cheap, DON'T...they aren't as good as AQ Topaz, which is sad for their price.

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AQ Diamond,Lapis, Tara RSC various versions, cardas, XLO