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I finally bought my new HU. I was lucky enough to meet an old friend from Tweeter and talk some good car audio talk. As much as he loves Kenwood and Alpine, he suggested that I spend fewer dollars than originaly intended and pick up a couple of left over Eclipse pieces he had in his store. His premise was... Eclipse and Nakamichi make great gear, but are notoriously behind the curve on cutting edge consumer products,eg. MP3. He saw that I had great amp and speakers and suggested I wait a year, if possible, for Eclipse and Nakamichi to get up to speed. I agreed and then bought a 'new' Eclipse 55430 HU (in the box), same as the CD5441, and an Eclipse 2301 DSP (in the box) for a total of $325. I am very happy with that deal. Thanks to all who offered valuable advice and more. I am now looking for cables. Looks like I will need 3 sets of 1meter and 3 sets of 5 meter RCA's. KnuKonceptz Krystals was the first thing I thought of. Tweeter was pushing the 6 channel Monster XLN. Thoughts??? Thanks Again

Go with Knuknocepts.

Congrats on the deal, sounds like you made out pretty well.

monster cable is good but it has 53432543535% profit. :rolleyes:

A recent customer of mine (Physics Major) was kind enough to do some testing of our product. He wanted to see if how our cables would stack up to AR's higher end cables he had been using. Here's what he wrote me:

I would like to complement you on the superb quality of your RCA
interconnects. I have tried many different interconnects on my home
stereo (Carver Preamp, ATI 2 Channel AMP, B&W Speakers, custom built
push pull 1k watt sub), and these have to be the best for the money I
have ever heard. Compared to some comparably priced Acoustic Research
home theater series interconnects, there is no contest, period!

The lower end AR interconnects seem to have some inductance problems
resulting in high frequency roll-off in the audible spectrum as well as
slightly muddied mid range and bass. I have been using AR's top of the
line interconnects which are built, surprisingly, almost exactly the
same as your interconnects. The only real difference is that they have
silver plated wires to minimize skinning effects and inter-modulated
distortion. However, I can discern no audible difference between the two
after 6 hours of A/B audio testing! Hype or no hype, your interconnects
simply wipe the floor with a dozen different brands of interconnects.
Everything under $50-100 gets swept under the carpet in humiliation next
to your product. Even on the electronics testing bench the ability of
these cables to transmit various signal and noise generation is amazing.
There is no discernable attenuation of frequency response anywhere near
the audible spectrum. They have an almost ruler flat response. Of course
they don't have ruler flat response, otherwise they'd be breaking laws
of physics!

The only gripe I have about your interconnects is that they could
perhaps use a rubber grip on the RCA terminating ends, other than that
they are marvelous. That's really just superficial however, nothing to
do with SQ. All in all, I feel confident that these interconnects (which
are ironically going in my car and not my home stereo) are the best I
can buy. My car should receive a nice shot in the arm of added accuracy
from these interconnects, especially since they are replacing some
bottom of the line straight shot OFC Tsunami RCA's.

Thanks again, for providing such an awesome product for a remarkably low
price.

Nice review. You know I recommend your products to just about everyone I encounter, but I don't know that I agree with some of the comments made by the reviewer. Double blind testing has repeatedly shown that people don't have the ability to hear audible differences in wiring. At least not with enough consistency to ever proclaim one brand/model as superior. If his review had said that the noise in his system had been diminished than I may buy into that, but I'm not sure that he would have been able to identify a "muddy" midrange if in a test environment.

so Dave you are saying that if u had some say wilson audio speakers and a tube amp hooked up through 18 gauge Radio Shack cable there wouldn't be a noticable difference in sound quality?

-Pete

Dear KK, Great review and thanks for posting it. I will contact you. Immarocker