Harmonic truth with lifelike dynamics!

None.

These truly are the best cables around for realism and dynamics with finesse. I posted the negative review on this sight out of a sense of denial and lack of money at the time..times change and so have my cables..I have all Transparent Reference cabling and power products. My system is as follows:

Watt/Puppy 6's
Mark Levinson 32 preamp
Mark Levinson 336 amp
Sony SCD-1

Similar Products Used:

MIT, HarmTech,AlphaCore,XLO,etc...RadioShack..yup, it's me.

Smooth highs, deep bass, huge soundstage, quiet

Cost

Cable is the most controversial component in the high end. I just can't agree with some of the comments in this thread, radio shack cable just doesn't sound as good. I don't know why and I don't care either. I will say that the price of this cable is WAY to high. But it sure is the best sounding cable I have yet used in my system.

The way this cable lets treble extend and at the same time remain smooth and liquid is unique in my exeperience. Music just doesn't get hard or brittle when your electronics are lashed up with Transparent Reference cable. I wish this stuff cost less but you can find it used for a more reasonable price. I've owned this cable longer than any other in the past and have no plans on ever changing. That says a lot.

Similar Products Used:

Audioquest Sterling, Kimber Select, Cardas Neutral Reference

What puzzles me about the many interconnect and wire opinions expressed on, forexample, rec.audio.high-end, is that so many people think that there's no differences among wires while I have had various experiences which either show my fine discerning ear or my unstable mental state. AT least I'm consistent.

Most recently I auditoned a pair of Transparent Reference Balanced interconnects
between my Theta D/A (DS Pro Basic IIIa) and my ARC LS2B MKII preamp.

When I asked for them at the store, the salesman who logged them out (the owner of the store asked him to do the paperwork) gave me a funny look. It was either a "you'll be sorry" or a "you're nuts!" look. YOU can decide depending on
which side of the fence you do your listening.

I said something smartass - and took 'em home. Plugged them in, replacing TARA
RSC Master Gen 2 balanced cables which I thought were very special.

My attitude was 'okay, knock me out!' But I didn't expect to be SO knocked out so immediately - first note sounded immediately more effortless, coherent, magical: WOW! It wasn't subtle. I read up on them afterward and don't know, frankly, if I believe what I read. I do believe what I hear - I've had them for a few weeks and every single time am impressed from the start of the first note. My wife, who doesn't understand my hobby particularly, commented on how 'it sounds like the singer is in the room now' where before all she ever said (after much prompting) was that the sound hurt her ears.

I don't think you ought to run out and BUY them - the price is one mighty obstacle. But you ought to hear them for yourself, in your own system. You will know immediately and the first impression will either stun or relieve you.

In my wire research, most folks who have heard them share one reaction: almost a kind of warning, the word-equivalent of that salesman's look: these things spoil you forever.

I fully agreed every word what Bob Wood said after I bought this RCA Transparent Reference cables. Other than what Bob has mentioned, I just want to add that this cable brings out one thing: MUSIC :))) I am sure one will not feel regret after one purchases the Reference or the Reference XL cables. I promise