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Silver KingCats and all is right again!
Hi,
For those of you that followed the long running Sliver Digital Coax thread HERE there was some consternation (by myself and others) that with the RCD-1072 into the RSP-1098 I found it sounded better with the Silver Digital Coax than with my $200 Analog RCA... We all knew that the RSP-1098 had good DACs but beating a award winning dedicated CD player on CD only playing...
Anyway I maxed out the credit card and ordered 9 of Lex's finest Silver Kingcats, with the same LOK Silverpoint ends as the Silver Digital Coax for a total end to end Silver connection. 2 cables for the CD and 7 from the RSP-1098 to the amps... (Replacing Van Del Hul 102 III Hybrid Silver / Carbon / Copper cables)
A little 5 week round the world business trip got in the way of my installing these cables. However I've been back for a couple of weeks now and had the time to install them and do some comparative listening...
Bottom line with the benefit of the Silver KingCats between the RSP-1098 and the Amps, and the Silver Kingcats between the RCD-1072 and the RSP-1098, Analog from the RCD-1072 for stereo bypass listening is now clearly even better than the Silver Digital... Tonally they are very similar (silver digital and analog) however there is a fine but exciting layer of extra detail, realism and "air" over all the sound spectrum, further opening up the sound stage... It's instantly noticeable on good material.
As soon as I engage any of the sound processing modes, this advantage goes away and I prefer the pure digital (clealry a small loss of quality when the analog signal is redigitised). So now I have two CD devices set up on my RSP-1098, one for Analog stereo listening, and the other for Pro-Logic II: Music etc, or when I want the subwoofer to boogie...... Both are great!
PS – Everything else has also been improved by the KingCats between the RSP-1098 and the Amplifiers – I now have way more detail from all sources and what I refer to as “Oh my god” bass – which is so tight, deep and defined it is scary! The extra level of detail is such that it is as if I have upgraded to new speakers... And I have no idea where the bass change comes from - the levels are the same but it now sounds scary!
PPS – An all Kingcat exercise wasn’t cheap the 9 cables cost me as much as my lovely RB-1080 – but it was definitely worth it!!!
Geoff
For those of you that followed the long running Sliver Digital Coax thread HERE there was some consternation (by myself and others) that with the RCD-1072 into the RSP-1098 I found it sounded better with the Silver Digital Coax than with my $200 Analog RCA... We all knew that the RSP-1098 had good DACs but beating a award winning dedicated CD player on CD only playing...
Anyway I maxed out the credit card and ordered 9 of Lex's finest Silver Kingcats, with the same LOK Silverpoint ends as the Silver Digital Coax for a total end to end Silver connection. 2 cables for the CD and 7 from the RSP-1098 to the amps... (Replacing Van Del Hul 102 III Hybrid Silver / Carbon / Copper cables)
A little 5 week round the world business trip got in the way of my installing these cables. However I've been back for a couple of weeks now and had the time to install them and do some comparative listening...
Bottom line with the benefit of the Silver KingCats between the RSP-1098 and the Amps, and the Silver Kingcats between the RCD-1072 and the RSP-1098, Analog from the RCD-1072 for stereo bypass listening is now clearly even better than the Silver Digital... Tonally they are very similar (silver digital and analog) however there is a fine but exciting layer of extra detail, realism and "air" over all the sound spectrum, further opening up the sound stage... It's instantly noticeable on good material.
As soon as I engage any of the sound processing modes, this advantage goes away and I prefer the pure digital (clealry a small loss of quality when the analog signal is redigitised). So now I have two CD devices set up on my RSP-1098, one for Analog stereo listening, and the other for Pro-Logic II: Music etc, or when I want the subwoofer to boogie...... Both are great!
PS – Everything else has also been improved by the KingCats between the RSP-1098 and the Amplifiers – I now have way more detail from all sources and what I refer to as “Oh my god” bass – which is so tight, deep and defined it is scary! The extra level of detail is such that it is as if I have upgraded to new speakers... And I have no idea where the bass change comes from - the levels are the same but it now sounds scary!
PPS – An all Kingcat exercise wasn’t cheap the 9 cables cost me as much as my lovely RB-1080 – but it was definitely worth it!!!
Geoff
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