Shark interconnects

Anyone using Shark cable for interconnects? Not a high price, but gives an excellent result.

 

It's done the rounds in the dim and distant past.

I was never particularly wowed by my set and sold them when I found something (significantly) better.

 

I made some. I used their Shark rhodium tipped locking connectors too. The cable isn't the nicest to work with and I think the screen could be better.

I've never really noticed much sound difference in cable. I prefer the fun of building tbh. And there are much more fun cables to be built.

 

I built a Shark interconnect. It was better than the Van den Hul D102 that it replaced but not as good as Krystal Kables Sterling 2 which is what I use now. By the time you've bought the Shark cable and decent plugs, the Sterling 2 doesn't cost very much more and is well worth it IMHO.

 

These look worth a listen...

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZsubzero.cablesQQhtZ-1

The plugs don't look the best but the wire inside sounds promising. I just bought a couple of armageddons out of curiosity.

 

yeah, I bought a pair of .25m IC (red in colour - forget the exact spec tho) as a jumper for my nad integrated (before I bought the power amp) and it worked well...well worth the couple of quid i paid for it...

 

There was one cable that shark did that was excellent ...by maplin dropped it a couple of years back.

To be honest these can be easily beaten by a simple twisted pair of silver in ptfe sleeve ...

How can i be certain ?

well I've built cables using all the shark stuff carried by uk supplier maplins....

A better bet it to get a spool of 32 awg magnet wire ..which will cost the same as 1m of the cheaper ic's ....as its insulated just twist the two cores together ...thread down a protective tube and solder a set of good plugs on like the neutrks. Then repeat for the other channel.

 

Before the Shark, I tried Maplins pure silver - no.SL0528G - and was astonished at how bad it sounded - tremendous detail, but sound was as thin as Twiggy in her prime, with norallora bass. (Actually Twiggy looks stunning now in the M&S adverts).Thanks for taking the time to all those who posted replies.As KK says, cables are SO system dependant, it's a "fuzzy" subject.

 

S'pose the maplin's silver needs about forty years to run in, just like Twiggy!

Graham.

 

I used to use some of that big fat blue Shark cable and it sounded fine. Musiflex is what I mainly use now and that sounds fine too and is a dream to work with.

http://www.connectronics.uk.com/Musiflex.htm