Hey Guys, and followup to Stickday,
I got my cables in the mail today!!!! Only 40 days from ordering them in the good old USA. Not bad.
I am joking, that was at least 10 days longer than it usually takes, but one does learn patience living abroad. Sorta.
I replaced these Stereophile recommended MIT cables, matching interconnects and speaker cables:
www.stereophile.com/cables/1008mit/index.html
And I replaced them with Signal cable Silver Resolution interconnects (Balanced XLR) and speaker cables:
signalcable.com/silverresolutionanalog.html
I am not selling ANYTHING (unless you want to buy my old MITs, ha ha) and do not represent any company.
But when someone is honest and not selling snake oil, just good to deal with like Frank at Signal, then I like to share it with my friends.
We are not that broken in yet, if you believe in that. There are no directions on these cables, so I am letting them still figure out which way the signal is supposed to go. Sounds like they may be getting that.
The first thing I noticed is they play louder. My experience with balanced connections is that you get a little bit more headroom. On my amps there is one less conversion they have to go through, these (Vincent SP-T800s) are balanced amps, so an unbalanced signal coming in has to get converted. That being bypassed, the signal should be shorter, should be purer. I doubt if I can hear it.
Now the neighbors don't think I need any more headroom, but GOODNESS, these Triton 2s are ROCKIN'!!!!
The only other thing (and this is the concern with silver wires, so I am looking to hear if they are too bright/harsh?) is it seems like I might have a little bit more detail and "air" up in the high register. The T2s are revealing, but never bright, so I was not too worried about this. I was right. IF a disc has digital glare and the high freqs just make your teeth grate, the MIT cables tame that right down. The silver cables let it through. But the T2s just don't let it be terrible, they keep things musical. This makes me think the MITs tamed the sound a bit by subtraction, by cutting off some of the high freqs.
I will listen more and report if I hear any changes.
So far I am VERY happy. Just wish I had not spent so much on those MITs.
Enjoy the music guys,
God Bless,
Wayne

OK then, breaking in the new cables in the home theater.
I rolled the input tubes on my little Triode TRV88SE, the 12AX7 and the 12AU7s with NOS tubes, and put the MIT cables on to my Triton 3s in the living room.
WOW!!!!!
Small music only in this room, but not necessarily low volumes. Just not full orchestra, full on rock and roll, or movies. This is for guitar, piano, chamber music, solo vocals, etc.
I have not yet really dialed in the T3s and they are in a BIG room, but they sound awesome!!!!
There will be SOME sitting down (now that we have a sofa) and listening, perhaps watch a movie, maybe even some karaoke going on here, but I hate to admit it, the MAIN function will be to play music that we will then listen to in the adjoining dining room as we have a nice, romantic meal, or sit here online as we are now.
So I am not gonna talk about imaging, soundstage, etc. But the sound from the next room is wonderful!!!!!
Happy listening everybody,
God Bless,
Wayne