Topic: My New Mic Cables

[LeftoverSammy]

For the past few months I've been pondering what cables I was going to purchase as upgrades from my AM X-Streams. After much thought and discussion with various other tapers I decided to go with a custom 15' pair of Luminous Audio Monarch II's that Tim Stinson from Luminous Audio built for me. A few years back he also built a pair of cables for my mod Nak700's that sound really killer, so I decided to give these a trial run and see what they can do for my MG's. I had the RA XLR's to interface with my V3 so it can remain vertical in my Lowe Pro Nova 4 bag.

They're nice solid contruction, quality silver solder connections, made from very high quality 21-guage, silver plated solid core, 99.997% OFC copper, with mil spec Teflon instulation. He even burned them in on a MOBIE break-in for 100hrs so I could get the max performace right off the bat. I plan to give them a test run tomorrow taping Living Daylights at a mini Martigra festy here in Seattle. I'm hoping they will shine over the AM's I have now (which are pretty decent cables IMO).

LoS 

[nickgregory]

I have heard alot of great things about the luminous stuff from Mark Lynn....look forward to hearing your thoughts!

[balou2]

I'm running X-Streams now, and am in the EXACT same position...I want to upgrade, but can't spend $1500 on Excalibur II's, or anything on that level.  Look forward to hearing your report.

[LeftoverSammy]

I was suppose to tape LD last night but got stuck working on my truck late and was whipped by the end of the day  so I bailed. I have another show next week and will def. post my "opinion" next week. Stay tuned kids 

Sam

[cshepherd]

I'm running X-Streams now, and am in the EXACT same position...I want to upgrade, but can't spend $1500 on Excalibur II's, or anything on that level.  Look forward to hearing your report.

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[scb]

I'm running X-Streams now, and am in the EXACT same position...I want to upgrade, but can't spend $1500 on Excalibur II's, or anything on that level.  Look forward to hearing your report.

remembering the day when natelsky sold a pair of 15 foot excalibur IIs for 350.....

[LeftoverSammy]

Ok, I finally had a chance to try the my new cables recently and was pleasantly surprised on the results I pulled. The thing that was most noticeable to my ears was how much tighter the low end was! Very well defined even at very high signal levels, much more so than the AM X-Streams I was running before. There was also a noticeable difference in the high end as well. If I were to attempt to describe it I would say it was silky smooth and not harsh or brittle at all, yet still very well defined/crisp. I didn't notice very much difference in the mids, but IMO the MG's have an amazing mids sound that I really dig.

Now I ran my M21 caps (hypers) into my V3 and was very pleased. Haven't had a chance to run the M20's (cards) yet & can't wait till outdoor festy time this summer as the cards really have this rich, fat low end that was was a little loose at times with the X-Streams. I have high hopes it will tighten up with these new cables.

Thanks again to Tim Stinson from Luminous....you make nice shit!! They sound great!!!