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Best of the Best - Vertex AQ
|I guess Hi-Fi+ first appeared in early 1999. That’s about as far back as I can date any material that I wrote, and I seem to recall contributing to the first (and subsequent) issues. Some ...read more -
Atlas Cables launch Ascent 3.5 MKII speaker cable – entry-level reference cable updated with new materials for improved performance
|19th June 2013 – Atlas Cables, the Engineering-led British audio and video cable manufacturer, announces the launch of its Ascent 3.5 MKII speaker cable. As the entry point to Atlas’ Reference range of audiophile cables, ...read more -
Snake River Audio Cables (Hi-Fi+)
|Based in Riggins, a town in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, Snake River Audio is a small specialist company, hand-crafting high quality audio cables. It is near Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in ...read more -
Wireworld Cable Technology Introduces Series 7 Cable Line in the UK
|(From a Wireworld press release) LONDON, (29-05-13) – Wireworld Cable Technology, one of the world’s most respected manufacturers of high performance audio and video cables, has introduced their next generation of cable and connector technology ...read more -
Crystal Cable Absolute Dream Signal & Power Cables (Hi-Fi+)
|In the first episode of this tale of Extreme Wire, we looked at the impact just one Absolute Dream cable can have on a system. While the cable in question (USB) can be taken out ...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Tellurium Q Loudspeaker Cables & Interconnects (HiFi+)
|Tellurium Q is a recent entry to an already fairly well-populated field. They have a range of four loudspeaker cables, starting at an entirely sensible ?16 per linear metre and extending to, if not the ...read more