Proteus Provectus, Elementa Advance Interconnects
Full description
The Proteus Provectus is the newest edition to Purist Audio Design’s family of cables. This cable line utilizes our proprietary fluid shielding in conjunction with solid-core single crystal copper conductors. Providing sonic improvements in spatial depth and yielding a beautifully sweet top-end with a deep and controlled bottom end; these cable let the listener feel the music.
The Proteus Provectus line includes interconnects (single-ended and balanced), phono interconnects (RCA, XLR, and Phono Din), and speaker cables (in straight and bi-wire configurations).
Product Specifications
| Product type | Interconnect |
| Model Number | Proteus Provectus Interconnects and Speaker cables |
| MSRP | $ |
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Comments
Some more amusing comments from a "Positive Feedback" review of these cables:
It is also suggested that after any extensive break-in the cables will need to settle into place—that is you should let them lay undisturbed with a signal running to allow for the fluids and such to settle. This means that swapping the Proteus Provectus and other cables in and out is not a good thing to do if one is to realize how they compare against another cable in-house; one should carefully disconnect them to cause as little disruption to their stasis as is possible.
Well, anything to make it harder to compare back to back with your standard $40 cables helps their case, I guess..
And the price (bargain!):
Running at a cool $3500 for the 1-meter balanced versions (the RCA single-ended is a hundred dollars less) and $6900 of the 1.5-meter single run speaker cables
have been using KimberKable(s) for years and never bothered to change them....there's no burn in - you just get "used" to the sound the deliver - eventually
Seems like all the posters here have a axe to grind.
Also they have never heard these Purist cables. I have and I bought them. It was money well spent for a good system. I don't know why folks have to bash other's and their opinions formed in REAL listening. Hey, if you don't like em fine, but before you bash something, take the time to actually listen.
Maybe I'am crazy or something but I can unequivocally hear differences in cables.And some of my fellow audiophiles can to , even in double blind testing.I can agree to the fact that not all cables make a marked difference.Some of these differences are subtle.But some are great.I really can't explain whats happening but I can assure all you audiophiles out there that there is a difference.
In one test for audiophiles cables very appraised the one better than the other the most expensive by far best. Now the only issue was that the cables were plugged into blind plugs while the same cable was used all along and the difference was clear. Need one say much more? I guess that in analogue cables there can be a change in sound due to resistivity and capacity properties possible more apparent in some combinations than other. However, I wonder what kind of cables are used internally in the amps. Not very expensive ones I am sure.
In one test for audiophiles cables very appraised the one better than the other the most expensive by far best. Now the only issue was that the cables were plugged into blind plugs while the same cable was used all along and the difference was clear. Need one say much more? I guess that in analogue cables there can be a change in sound due to resistivity and capacity properties possible more apparent in some combinations than other. However, I wonder what kind of cables are used internally in the amps. Not very expensive ones I am sure.