It’s said that silence is golden, a notion reinforced by the low noise of AP’s top-tier Micro Golden Oval interconnect. Keep a little polish handy, however, as the heavy silver-sheathed RCA terminations do tend to tarnish. AudioQuest has really elicited the strengths of this metal in WBY’s openness and extension-and left behind the glaze, glare, and icy sheen of early silver efforts. Pure silver wire, long ago exiled into conductor Purgatory, has been making a comeback of late and AudioQuest’s Wild Blue Yonder (or WBY) interconnect is one strong example. Clear Beyond’s eight conductors can be used to bi-wire your loudspeakers or for “shotgun” bi-wiring. The larger strands are built upon this core until the inside of each conductor looks like a copper nautilus shell in cross section. Where Clear used four conductors, Clear Beyond features eight, meticulously built up using multi-gauge strands in a “Golden Section” symmetrical tri-axial design. Eclipsed in performance only by Cardas’ Clear Beyond. But that doesn’t mean a ‘”house” sound instead, Clear sounds as close as you can get to having no sound. The balanced and single-ended interconnects and the loudspeaker cable are functionally identical in sound. This thick blue cable takes the patented technologies in Cardas cables to new heights. The Amphora does not suffer from the etched sound of many silver cables, but future iterations could allow more tonal weight to emerge. As with all phono cables, however, careful auditioning is a must. It is also flexible and lightweight, but delivers excellent dynamic impact. The Amphora cable, which is made out of silver, is extremely speedy and transparent. But its new phono cable, based on a sophisticated design to lower, if not eliminate, noise, suggests that it is a comer. By virtue of a bottomless well of dynamic contrast and tonal color the Kimber unearths a body of energy and atmosphere in even the most familiar recordings.ĮnKlein is the new kid on the block in the cable marketplace. Sonically, there’s a feathery light-footedness to its sound that doesn’t so much add power as it does transient speed. Its sophisticated construction uses vari-strand silver and solid-core silver conductors throughout. KS 6068 speakerĮverything about this blue-chip wire screams extreme.
The Au24 SX strikes a fluid and natural balance of ease, articulation, and immersiveness. A particular strength for all Audience cables is an often hard-to-achieve blend of tactile presence and back-of-the-hall reverberation. Speaker, $3290/2.5m interconnect RCA, $1800/1m ($2375/2m)Īudience’s latest flagship wire offers midrange weight and sweetness, vivid dynamic contrasts, excellent transient speed, sensitivity to delicate volume gradations, and a brilliance that casts light into the deepest corners of the soundstage, restoring air and lift to harmonics.
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Plus it sets a symphonic soundstage with the precision of the staff preparing the dining room table at Downton Abbey. Only a neutrally balanced presentation with just a pleasing gust of midrange warmth. The summit of Wireworld’s current thinking in this field is Platinum Eclipse 7, which sports newly refined cosmetics and heavy-gauge OCC silver conductors. speaker single termination, $16,500/2m pr. Still, it is one of the more purely exciting and toe-tapping cables in recent memory. As a general observation, its soundstage is a little more proximate, and doesn’t quite match the dimensionality of NG’s reference cable. Sheer power, colorful timbre, and transient speed are its strong suits. An extrovert, the spirited Titania has a more forward, cooler presentation but its presence, dynamic energy, and bass response are electrifying.
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