We are working on the SPTPC copper pricing in a revolving door of economic stability. As soon as a price is given, it is obsolete the next day. We’ll get there one way or another…they have to sell material eventually! The OFE will be last based on marketing demands. The cable is $$$ to make (you have no idea how good a deal this is for you) and the TPC and SPTPC isn’t all sold at once so we are in the hole a bunch for awhile. All the cable is paid for, sold or not. Once we get sales going, we can look at the OFE. We can’t absorb carrying inventory charges on all three at the same time.
As the designs get better, the changes to the copper have less and less an influence on the sound, too. Don’t judge the cable on previous designs, start over again . You may not be as SOLD as you think. Things will shuffle around a bit. All three coppers will be liked, but not based on the series I order of things as the sound and the value equations aren’t the same as before.
Remember, the tested electrical data to experimental statistics will be the same with all coppers. We pass the higher cost through on single, long grain and standard copper so user’s can listen and decide what’s best. We sell the data and the material cost are superimposed into the same designs so you can evaluate the copper.
I use TPC on my CWT1000-40 bi-wire (Series I bottom, Series II top) and it is anything but bright. Trust me, those big electrostatic tweeter panels know bright!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I have an Pass Labs XP-30 preamplifier and a T+A P3100HV and the XP-30 is more “romantic” but is also more deficient in tonal detail, dynamics and balance. Not terribly, but noticeably. It depends on what you listen to which you’ll like.
At first, I was used to the more ethereal quality of the XP-30, and no reason not to be. But after using the P3100HV I can’t go back to the XP-30 anymore. I keep missing the music more than the effect! The P3100 sound more REAL more of the time, so much so that it isn’t noticeable…that’s good!
The XP-30 sounds real less often, but when it does it jumps out at you. That’s good, too, but I’d rather have it be real most of the time not some of the time.
As good as the XP-30 is, the P3100HV is better more often and for the right reasons. Spatial placement, dynamics and timber balance are all improved. It should be as much as it cost, though. The P3100HV makes every source sound like a new mix because I hear so many more nuanced musical contrasts. Once I hear them I can’t un-hear them!
Give your stuff a chance, the better item will push other things aside. At first I was thinking I liked the XP-30’s signature sound better, Turns out I don’t like the XP-30 as well when I went off the P3100 HV after eight hours and back to the XP-30. We are loss averse and the P3100HV gives me more, always.
If I’m on a narcotic for a tooth ache, the XP-30’s softer and more floaty sound will do…if I’m listen to music the P3100HV is a must.
Best,
Galen
). The SII TPC already goes to the Moon in frequency extension, and has qualities that go beyond what the SI SPTPC had, so right now I’m thinking the SP variant could be “too much of a good thing”, unless a system has a very warm, closed character about it. But pure speculation on my part.
