How do these compare to flat copper cables like the Lenehan Ribbonteks or the Goetz?
Tuyen,
I built ribbon cables before Mike brought out his ribbonteks and also have goertz.
On my system:
Wadia. I2S...Kdac......VAC phi 200 significantly upgraded.....ML3 references,
the cables that Nathan has utterly annihilated any of the ribbon versions including goertz.
The goertz on these "normal" speakers is, relatively speaking, quite dark and closed-in.
The ribbon may have aome good attributes (dunno what) but it has little nuance and 'life'.
Nathans speaker cables are ahead in every parameter I could focus on:
Soundstage width, depth (particularly layering) and sense of height.
Engagement and sense of life and realness
Resolution,
Attack ( essential to create that sense of life in music)
Decay ( ditto)
Micro resolution ( ditto)
And the one that really surprised me was low bass is subjectively better.
Surprised because Nathan's cables are smaller gauge than the goertz for example, and yet the goertz did not perform as well in the bass.
I get down below 20hz in-room so the bass extension I have is pretty good.
As Steve pointed out the darker character of the goertz pairs well with the rising response of a driver such as axiom 80 but I find not so with a flatter measuring type of more modern Box speaker.
Does that help clarify??
Craig