I use Focal Electra 1028 Be speakers.

Yes I was somewhat delusional about how easy the Focal’s would slot into my system without some tweaking.

They certainly didn’t work well with my previous Exposure amps, which just couldn’t grip hold of them well enough. They balance was all wrong and overly forward and fatigued. With the Belles amp and Coherent cabelling, it’s a transformation.

I doubt that you'd need the Belles monos, Martin. The SA-100 has more grunt than you can imagine into my Ushers.

Biggest difference of any of the cables.
Probably removing the tea strainer effect

Having taken the hugely scientific approach of gutting the old loom and dropping all of the new stuff in-in one go (a la excited child mode) it’s hard for me to decipher what’s contributed to what tbh.

I’m certain the speaker cables are significant contributors though as the sound just keeps increasingly improving. All I can guess is they continue to open up. The culmination of the new cables is a much lower noise floor, as I keep hearing new details.

Martin - good to know re the amps. I’ve read some interesting stuff on whatsbestforum about the pros and cons of having more than the stated manufacturers requirement for watts. I know there’s more to it than that (eg the speaker, current delivery etc). Don’t monoblocks bring more than just lots more power though?

Martin

When you change out the supplying cable to the isotek then it will all fall into place

Cables are very system dependant and every system has a weak point whether that is cables, speakers, amps, mains or room

Yesterday I visited a new customer who system was well in excess of five figures, his speakers were 25k and were comprehensively outclassed by speakers just over half that cost

The next biggest improvement was a mains cables on the power amplifier, yet previously in the week another system it was clearly a source that was at fault closely followed by a pre amplifier

Many years of audio have given me the following thoughts on monoblock and stereo chassis

A correctly implemented stereo power amp gives better separation, soundstaging, articulation ,micro neurones and imho more cohesiveness

A correctly implemented pair of mono chassis should deliver greater overall dynamics, depth of sound stage and layering also a lower noise floor due to each channel bearing totally separate usually more body as well

Now there are dual mono stereo amplifiers which can deliver the best of both worlds and get very close to monoblocks

Again any respectable amplifier manufacturer would have paired the amplifiers up as a matchedpair hopefully +/- 0.4-0.75dB or is that being unrealistic 👍

Currently i I am listening to a  1995 vintage dac that I first purchased some 18 years it has back into my possession again in the last few weeks and it is supremely musical and engaging running direct into a medium powered ampilifer and a modest pair if stand mounts ok I did tinker with the dac back then but man it just sounds so engaging 

the joys of audio

I dont see it as going over the top, more interesting to see others thoughts on what are clearly excellent cables.

Has at least a tenuous connection

Quick update: I just wired up the high current IEC for the final part of the puzzle - a 6D to feed my mains conditioner (and therefore the whole system).

Initial impressions are positive! I leave the mains conditioner on permanently, so hopefully this cable will be burnt-in in no time.

I'll create my own thread to write up thoughts on what a whole (Coherent) loom does for a system.