Furutech Piezo Powerflux Power Cable Review
Part of the excitement of being an audiophile is the fun derived from browsing online classifieds. Within our respective budgets, we can have so much fun examining the various listed equipment from the...
View ArticleJorma Prime Interconnect and Speaker Cable Review
Jorma Design is a small Swedish company that manufactures loudspeaker cables and interconnects at a variety of price points. The Jorma cables utilize very high purity copper wire, non colored Teflon...
View ArticleLessLoss Dynamic Filtering Power Cable Signature Review
I’ve waited an extended period of time to write this review about the five months when I have now had the four LessLoss DFPC Signatures in my system. During that time, I’ve had plenty of opportunity...
View ArticleStage III Concepts A.S.P. Reference Minotaur Power Cable Review
Inevitably, the choices made by a cable designer, conductor type, dielectric, spacing, geometry and shielding, and how these are balanced, determine the electrical properties and thus the cable’s...
View ArticleAural Symphonics Magic Gem v2t & Cappuccino Power Cable Review
Introduction Cable reviews are a very tricky endeavor. In the best of situations, a well-chosen and placed interconnect or power cord can provide that touch of magic to a system in order to bring it to...
View ArticleINEX Innovation Photon A200 Preamplifier, Photon Monoblock Amplifier and...
It happens in the blink of an eye, in a flash, at the speed of light – the signal is sent, the music plays, and the ears are awash in waves of sound. The soul is stirred, and the mind feels… Free?...
View ArticleClarity Cable Organic Interconnect, Speaker, Digital Cable Review
This review started with an assault upon me by Chris Owen. Well, that might be a bit of an overstatement; I should say that Chris has been a persistent man, catching me at every show I have attended...
View ArticleTel Wire Connect Interconnect And Cord Power Cable Review
Introduction Over the past 12 months or so, I have had the pleasure of auditioning four unique families of cables. Each cable design is quite different from the others in terms of finished product, but...
View ArticleSablon Panatela Speaker Cables, Interconnects, Phono Cable and Gran Corona...
The Review System I recently reviewed Sablon’s remarkable Panatela interconnects. When possible, I most often use the same cables throughout my system, so for this review I hooked up my whole system...
View ArticleEnklein Zephyr Interconnect, Taurus Speaker Cables, and Titan Power Cable Review
In the beginning of the year at the 2012 CES, I observed that the room hosted by Sutherland, Merrill-Williams, and Vandersteen sounded particularly good. The cabling in that room was by a company that...
View ArticleMIT StyleLine Series SL-8, SLXLR-6, and SL-12 Interconnects and Speaker...
It has been many, many years, (perhaps 25 or even 30?) since I have had my system decked out in MIT cables. Back when I discovered the joy of electrostatic speakers I splurged and invested in some MIT...
View ArticleAudience adeptResponse aR6-TSS Power Conditioner and Au24 powerChords Review
Back in 2009 I begin to use an Audience aR6-T power conditioner. The T stood for the Auri-T Teflon caps. In December of 2009, I also did a full review of the Audience Au24 powerChords. I suggest you...
View ArticleSnake River Audio Cottonmouth Signature Series Cables Review
My attention suddenly sharpened, as I stood immobile in the dark staring at the unmistakably reptilian eyes looking back at me. My memory flashed back to a nighttime hunting excursion in Peru on the...
View ArticleStage III Kraken Power Cable & HB Cable Design Marble PowerSlave Power...
Back in the 80’s, I befriended an audiophile and classical music aficionado named Dave, who has since passed, I’m sorry to say. We did several record-buying and orchestra-listening trips back East...
View ArticleSilent Source Interconnect, Power, Digital and Speaker Cables Review
As in nature, so also in audio; if the source is pristine, then there is a good chance everything downstream may be as well. One of the classic audiophile mistakes is to focus on the source,...
View ArticleWyWires Juice HC Power Cords Review
I know I have told this story before but there are some things that just stick in your memory. One of those for me was the first time someone suggested that I should pay for power cords. I mean how...
View ArticleStage III Kraken Power Cable Review Followup
In February Fred Crowder reviewed these very special power cables in conjunction with the HB Cable Design Marble PowerSlave Power Distributor. I reviewed and bought the HB Marble back in October of...
View ArticleHigh Fidelity Cables CT-1 Ultimate Reference Rhodium Plus Power Cord Review
Back in the fall of 2012, when my publisher asked if I would review Rick Schultz’s new CT-1 interconnects, my initial response was to say no. My memory went to some of Rick’s Virtual Dynamics cables I...
View ArticleiFi-audio Micro Series – iDAC, iUSBPower Peripherals – iPurifier, Mercury USB...
iFi-audio Micro Series – iDAC iDAC – $299 + Mercury USB cable – $99 for 0.5 meter, $129 for 1 meter I recently became somewhat serious about computer audio. Last month I bought an Asus laptop and two...
View ArticleEnKlein “David” Interconnect and “T-Rex” Power Cord Review
A couple of years ago, I was introduced to the world of Enklein. At the time, after many hours of evaluation and break-in, I concluded that, though not ideal in every respect, the EnKlein “Zephyr” and...
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