The concern about “compatibility” is usually that the tonal or other characteristics of a system or individual components won't work with some cables, meaning the sonic characteritics would clash in some way. This concern is based on experience with conventional cables which are almost always to some degree tonally colored (such as overbright or dull or bass-heavy), and also smeared in the transients and textural details of the sound. Many audiophiles are accordingly used to using their cables in part as passive tone controls to counterbalance excessive dullness, overbrightness, edginess or other inaccuracies in their system. Of course, all components/systems plus room effects have such anomalies to some degree, but the most appropriate correction method is to apply system “adjustments” or “tweaks” which greatly reduce some of the aberrations at their source. See our "Tweaks" section for suggested approaches.

The Magnan Signatures, Type Vi and Type IIIi are extremely highly resolving and tonally neutral, with the degree of these characteritics ranked by the price points. Our cables are not tonally colored nor do they have other sonic aberrations of any significant amount. The Magnan interconnects and speaker cables are compatible with almost all systems, amps, preamps, speakers, etc., where “compatible” is defined in the best sense, adding and substracting as little as possible from the music signal, in addition to being electrically and mechanically compatible. This also means the Magnan cables are not intended or suitable for use as passive tone controls in attempting to balance out error with opposite error.

With the Signature interconnects only, there are two exceptions to full compatibility with all components, due to the high series resistance of the Signature interconnects. This resistance is approximately 30,000 ohms and causes some gain or volume reduction, the reduction in gain increasing with lower input impedances in the component (amplifier, preamp) being driven via the cable. This gain loss is entirely innocuous or neutral - the sound quality, resolution, frequency response, tonality, etc., are not affected, only the maximum volume available. The high cable resistance also causes problems in using a passive line stage to drive the Signature.
The following table summarizes the general recommendations for CD digital system compatibility with the Magnan interconnects, including the cases where there may be too much gain reduction with the Signature interconnects.

Line Stage Type	Amplifier and Line Stage Input Impedance	Recommended Cable Type, DAC to Line Stage	Recommended Cable Type, Line Stage to Amp
Active	Both 50K or above (normal for most amps and line stages)	Magnan Signature or Type Vi	Magnan Signature or Type Vi
Active	Amp low (10K-20K ohms), line stage 50K ohms or above	Magnan Signature or Type Vi	Type Vi
Active	Line Stage low (10K-20K), amp 50K ohms or above	Type Vi	Magnan Signature or Type Vi
Active	Both low, 10K-20K ohms	Type Vi	Magnan Signature balanced for 6dB more gain (if line stage and amp allow) or Type Vi
Passive	Any	Type Vi	Type Vi
None (DAC or CD player with remote volume control)	10K-20K ohms (amp)	Signature (balanced) (if DAC and amp allow), or Type Vi
	50K ohms or above (amp)	Magnan Signature or Type Vi

The Signature interconnect and speaker cables have a unique set of sonic characteristics. Unlike virtually all conventional cables they combine very high resolution of musical information, sense of transparency and three dimensional focused imaging with a warm, relaxed and neutral tonal balance. This comes about primarily because of their very high time coherence, which is the basis of my design philosophy reflected in all of my products.

Conventional cable designs each have at least a couple of areas of good or excellent performance but cannot get it all right most basically because of using too thick conductors. The most common (virtually universal) weakness of conventional cables is their lack of image focus and resolution. As a small audio manufacturer, there is no practical or affordable way to compare my designs with each of the scores of existing and new competing brands in this crowded high end audio area. I cannot, therefore, give a detailed comparative evaluation with specific brands. I can only assure you that the previous general comparison will hold true for this design also.