Still stopped at AV amps, no time for integrated amps yet.

Does speaker cable matters? I have the RM10/ft cable from Acoustique System connected to PM6005 and wonder should I get something better...

Damn wanted to audition Dali Zensor 3 since they are highly recommended by Whathifi for PM6005...

PM6005
CD6005
Moditor Audio BX2

I was not a cable believer... But when I had tried Monster Cable M2.4s with my PM6005 on KEF Q700, WOW... Impressive... It changed the sound signatures into like another system.. Like sweeter, smoother, finer... The cable is like performing sound polishing... And it also sound like I had just upgraded to high end DAC with that kind of signature. Wow...

Then my 2nd stereo system with PM6005, initially with cheapo Monster cable... ok la... Later cannot tahan the ordinary sound and also upgrade to monster M2.4s with Tannoy E11. Again, the sound signature all polished... But my system improvement with E11 is not that obvious as Q700. I suspect is due to Q700 better high freq response that can more potential.

Now back to technical explanation.... Technically I think the M2.4S cables have different freq response as to compare normal cables... Where the high freq improved a lot. But I cannot explain other findings such as smoother and sweeter sound... Just Wow...

This post has been edited by chanhin: Mar 18 2015, 10:55 PM

Once tasted different of cables you cannot stop. Monster cable is just entry level. I am sure more to come

Well... Btw, Monster Cable M2.4s is not exactly entry level.... It actually more expensive than the amp~

come come power cordz lets play snake

Thinking of getting whathifi 5-star rating cable - QED XT40.

No idea where to get them though... Any local hifi shops have stock for this cable?

Also in your opinion - what is the best speaker for PM6005 to drive?

This post has been edited by jeremy_yee: Mar 21 2015, 12:14 AM

Hahaha... Too bad I am not a power cord believer...

IMO, PM6005 is only 45 watt, good for almost every speakers.. but the big one... Even driving my KEF Q700 seems slightly under power... Q500 should be ok.

Power cord and fuse, make a good difference to my avr.
even i already have a bada lb3300 installed as main conditioner. Now change to use bypass, only heavvy filter to tv only

Looks more like over price speaker wire for me.
Belden are making decent speaker wires, can try them.

usually join bulk, a bit difficult to buy loose cut from shop

Can always start a group buy
ICE in Jalan Pasar are selling loose cuts, as far as I know. They are selling heat shrink tubings also.
Anyway, nowadays wire are freaking expensive, don't care you buy in bulk or loose cuts. Like the same Belden I bought few years back for rm500, now need rm700 for it

Monster cable is totally over price. Price does not make the cable more premium. It's just entry level cables

The quality ar so so only.
Last time I buy from Ebay, very cheap if compare to local shops selling.

True. Like I said monster cable is just entry cable with expensive price

Totally agreed with this.

I just tried the headphone port on avr. Not good unless change to direct /pure direct listening mode.
the other 2 choices are stereo, virtual.

hiss noise start to appear at -16db onwards.
audyssey cannot be enable

AVR is not a good choice for headphone and audyssey is only for surround sound calibration

You should know that : too many cook spoil the soup
Using AVR for stereo are good, if tight on budget
But if you want to listen stereo, still integrated amp the only way

agree, exactly like u said


wallet not yet ready to setup 2 systems