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Crystal Cable Absolute Dream (Part One)
|There are already quite a few reviews of Crystal Cables’ Absolute Dream floating round. It’s an astonishing cable, at an astonishing price, in part because it raises the metallurgy stakes. Absolute Dream uses an all ...read more -
Wilson Audio Alexia: Michelangelo got it right... (Hi-Fi+)
|One of the more fascinating demonstrations at the CES in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year wasn’t actually at the CES. There are always off-piste demonstrations that run concurrently with the show, and ...read more -
Tellurium Q Graphite loudspeaker cables and interconnects and Black mains cables
|Some time ago, I reviewed various cables from Tellurium Q, a new name whose affordable wiring has been getting itself noticed for all the right reasons. Since that review, TQ has launched the highend Graphite ...read more -
Black Rhodium Introduces Tempo Stereo Interconnect (Hi-Fi+)
|TEMPO Stereo Interconnect Black Rhodium announces the launch of the TEMPO Stereo Interconnect. The design TEMPO is based very closely on the very popular CODA interconnect cable with two important differences: The insulation of the ...read more -
Vertere Cables D-Fi minijack-phono cable
|This is perhaps the single most important cable Hi-Fi Plus has ever reviewed. That’s a pretty bold statement, but it’s true, because the D-Fi is not so only a cable – it’s a generational gateway. ...read more -
Cardas Clear Power Cords
|Cardas’ top of the range Clear cables were missing a key element until recently. Interconnects, speaker cables, even USB cables were all extant, but the power cord was conspicuous by its absence. In fact, the ...read more -
Ecosse La Prima Donna interconnect and Big Red UC power cord
|There are cable brands that use an ornate range of increasingly left-field metals to conduct electricity. Ecosse isn’t one of them. It relies on copper and silver, albeit of the highest purity, to do its ...read more -
Audience AU24e High-Z phono cable
|Audience has produced a phono cable with a range of impedance matches to suit your cartridge. When you think that a cartridge has a tiny output and the wire can slug its performance, having control ...read more -
Nordost White Lightning Anniversary (Hi-Fi+ 89)
|White Lightning Anniversary has the toughest job in the Nordost catalogue, because it wears more hats than the brand’s other cables. The suffix ‘Anniversary’ is there for a reason. White Lightning is the spiritual heir ...read more -
Nordost Blue Heaven Cable Set (Hi-Fi+)
|A cable review is always an interesting proposition as it provides the writer with an almost infinite amount of holes and pitfalls that can be plunged into headfirst. Even in these more enlightened times cabling ...read more -
CES 2012 Report - Alan Sircom on AC Power Products, Cables and Accessories
|Given that the cable business was arguably the first to raise the stakes in the price war, this year’s launches were almost subdued. There were product launches, but new “sharp intake of breath” products were ...read more -
Moon Audio Silver Dragon V1 IEM Cable (Playback 51)
|Something there is in the minds of serious audiophiles and music lovers that can’t resist trying to make good things better—a philosophy that, in a nutshell, is the guiding force behind the North Carolina-based firm ...read more -
High Performance Audio, CEDIA 2011—Part 1
|This is Part 1 of a four-part report on High-Performance Audio at CEDIA 2011, which highlights new products from: AKG, Anthem, Atlantic Technology, AudioQuest, Audio Research Corporation, Bryston, Canton, Cambridge Audio and Cary Audio. Part ...read more -
Audio Smörgasbord: Cables (Hi-Fi+ 80)
|Crystal Cables Standard Diamond Cables Crystal exposes the notion that bigger is better when it comes to hi-fi cables. Most of Crystal Cables are routinely small, slim and elegant, silver designs that sound excellent right ...read more -
MIT Oracle MA-X Loudspeaker Cables (Hi-Fi+)
|When you contemplate £25,000 loudspeaker cables, several things pass through your mind. This is an awful lot of money for what is, in effect, two pieces of wire. This invites the question whether the concept ...read more