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The FedEx Fairy (not something I’d say to his face) came bringing gifts today! My favorite kind of day. First up is a Wyred4Sound STP SE preamp. This guy is an “activated passive”, to borrow […]
In with the new In case you missed it, I picked up a pair of Joseph Audio Pulsars while I was in New York for the NYAV12 Show. This was most definitely not an impulse […]
I don’t get up to Philadelphia as often as I ought to, or as often as my team would like, but hey, they really need to take that up with the travel budget people. I […]
I’ve been running the Silver Star 75 for a couple of weeks now. Well, almost exactly 2 weeks. “Two weeks? Hah! You hack! That cable is hardly broken in!” you say. To which I reply, […]
Lookout! Looks like the famous 1.23m $123 digital audio cable, Black Cat’s Veloce, is about to undergo a metamorphosis. Black Cat Cable’s brand spankin’ new offering — the Silver Star 75. Availability should be by […]
Lars had just kicked off his power cord demo when I snuck in. Nordost runs demos like this at shows all the time – swap a cable and listen to the change in the sound […]
Remember those excellent speaker cables from Black Cat that I talked about a while back? You know, the Morpheus XL? Well, it seems that they’re heading out into the light of day. Production time! The […]
Had a bit of luck with scheduling yesterday, so I was able to slip out and pick up my newest toy, Shunyata’s (currently) top-of-the-line Hydra Triton. I’ve owned Hydras in the past and have been […]
Controversy! I get nervous talking about cables. And actually writing up a review? Sheesh. The problem is that there’s still a rather tenacious debate going on in audiophile land about whether or not cables can […]
A couple of days ago, Alan Kafton sent me my brand new Audiodharma Anniversary Edition Cable Cooker. Immediately upon receipt, I added the Black Cat Morpheus speaker cables and the Stereolab Draco interconnects, powered that […]
Ok, fine. I’m man enough. I’ll admit it. That cat has given me nightmares. I can’t even remember when I first saw the Black Cat logo. Stereophile, maybe? 6moons? Not sure. It’s just been in […]
Ok, fine. Clarity Cables Organic speaker cables and interconnects sound better than Blue Jeans Cables 10-White speaker cables and LC-1 interconnects. A lot better. Of course, the Clarity Cables cost about 45x more than the […]
It’s a fact — I am on record for being a cable doubter. I have sworn, at various points, that cables must be entirely irrelevant to the overall sound of the system, that cables might […]
I met Steven Huang at RMAF in 2010 where he was showing with TTWeights, providing all the cables for that rather impressive demo. His cable company, Audio Sensibility, just got profiled by Stereophile in their […]
If you’re reading this blog, chances are that you know who Steven Stone is. That dude is everywhere. I think he publishes articles in something like 85 different audio blogs and magazines, and when that’s […]
Today, I felt like taking my life into my own hands, so I undertook to swap out some power cords. I say that this is life-threatening only because those Joule-Electra monoblocks (reviewed here) are, well, […]
I’ve been using a full Blue Jeans Cable “loom” now for the last seven months. During that time, I have not once wanted for a “better cable” — in fact, I went and bought more […]
So, I needed some temporary cables until I made some decisions about a new cable loom to better fit my rig and in the middle of all that, I decided I needed to rethink my […]
Now, I know many of you are like me. That is, you too were horribly cheated by the Lotto, Mega Millions and Power Ball. If only, if only. Anyway, here in real life, trying new […]
There are a bunch of USB cables out there, and a whole lot of opinions about those cables — whether they’re “worth it”, whether you can actually discriminate between any two cables, and so on […]
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