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Black Rhodium Overture/Polka/Stream cables
|In pro audio the answer to the question what’s the best cable? Is “the one that is the right length to make the connection.” In domestic audio, as we know, it’s not quite that straightforward! ...read more -
The Chord Company ChordMusic Cables
|As anybody who has put together a music system of separates will tell you, cabling is not just important, its vital. Cables are the arteries of the system, carrying anything from potentially deadly voltages to ...read more -
Ansuz Acoustics D2 cables
|We missed the boat with the first round of Ansuz cables, but arrived nice and early for the D2 series. Replacing POM, Aluminium, Ceramic, and Diamond respectively, the P2, A2, C2, and D2 lines form ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Cables
|Digital Audio Cable Clearer Audio Silver-Line Optimus Reference 75 This pure 75 ohm digital interconnect cable (£975/1.5m as tested) is a coaxial design, featuring a central 6N (99.9999%) OCC silver central conductor, and micron-thick silver-plating ...read more -
Ecosse Master Reference DCT interconnect cables
|Our cable benchmarks are easily destroyed by working for Hi-Fi+. You begin by having the same sense of wonder at performance and shock when it comes to the prices, but pretty soon that all goes ...read more -
Kimber Kable Hero-cu interconnects and 8TC loudspeaker cables
|Much like journalists across the globe, hi-fi reviewers are always keen to pontificate about the pros and cons of the latest must-have piece of kit. We’re always hungry for novelty! But out in the real ...read more -
Kimber Axios headphone cable
|The audiophile community is slowly but surely coming to embrace headphones as serious high-end audio components and with this change a market for high-performance upgraded headphone signal cable has emerged. But some will surely question ...read more -
ZenSati Authentica cables
|Danish cable expert ZenSati is one of those cable brands that pitches itself firmly in the highest of high-end positions. This brand is very much at the Rolls-Royce level in audio, both in price and ...read more -
The Tuneable Experience880-more than one interconnect in a single cable
|For a demonstration unlike any other, visit Wire On Wire’s room at Audio London 2017, where we will be launching our Experience880 audio cable. Why is it so different? Because it’s tuneable so you can ...read more -
Mark Levinson, Vienna Acoustics, Chord Company system
|Hi-fi, just like any other arcane (and borderline obsessive) activity has generated its own set of ‘rules’. One that pretty much everybody seems to agree on is that the shortest route to sonic suicide is ...read more -
Cardas Audio Clear Beyond interconnects
|Cardas Clear has remained one of my go-to cable systems since first I heard it. Its lyricism, precision, and just plain ease of listening keep me coming back to the design. There are faster and ...read more -
Moon Audio Black Dragon Premium V2 headphone cable
|One sign of the growing maturity of the high-end headphone marketplace is the number of cable manufacturers now offering specialised headphone signal cable sets. One such manufacturer is the Cary, North Carolina-based firm Moon Audio, ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Cables, Power, and Accessories
|Analogue Audio Cable of the Year Chord Sarum Super ARAY Until the recent launch of ChordMusic, Sarum in all its guises was Chord’s top cable. The latest version – Super ARAY – uses a tuned ...read more -
Tellurium Q Silver Diamond cable system
|A few months ago, we looked at a fine system comprising Melco digital source, T+A disc player and amplifier, Estelon loudspeakers, and Stillpoints supports. We touched briefly on the Tellurium Q Silver Diamond cables used ...read more -
Clearer Audio Silver-line Optimus Reference interconnect cable
|Optimus Reference does sound like something exploding from one of Michael Bay’s abysmal yet lucrative Transformers movies, but it’s the current flagship of Clearer Audio’s range, topping out the best-of-breed Silver-line group of pure silver ...read more