Having heard the startling difference a Nordost Valhalla power cord made to my Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21 DAC several years ago, I have moved from being somewhat skeptical of high-priced speaker cables, interconnects, and power ...

May 25, 2013 - Synergistic Research is proud to announce the launch of their new Galileo LE Interconnects, Speaker Cables, and Power Cords, at T.H.E. Show Newport 2013 in Newport Beach, California. Engineered to be ...

Las Vegas was awash in new high-performance audio cables and power products—from exotic new interconnects and loudspeaker cables to some surprisingly affordable power conditioners and USB and Ethernet cables. These essential components lifted the performance ...

September 24, 2012 - The Aeros interconnect is made from a double “stiletto” construct that is an evolutionary step for EnKlein. The stiletto architecture was first introduced with the Amphora phono cable. Aeros is constructed ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. Before getting to my beat at this show—electronics above $15k—I’d like to tell you about what was for me show’s sonic and musical ...

In Issue 189 I reviewed the Cable Research Lab Silver speaker cables and interconnects. A relatively new company at the time, CRL took its inspiration from the work of Paul Weitzel and Winston Ma over ...

Here is a riddle: What has sixteen separate, current-bearing, actively shielded “air strings” of copper-silver alloy, pure silver, pure gold, or (if you choose) a combination of gold and silver, twenty separate LEMO connectors and ...

Excerpted and adapted from The Complete Guide to High-End Audio (Third Edition). Copyright ©1994–2009 by Robert Harley. hifibooks.com Loudspeaker cables and interconnects are an important but often overlooked part of the playback chain. The right ...

In Issue 196 I reviewed the Wireworld Platinum Eclipse interconnect, the company’s latest flagship wire. I was impressed. In a nutshell, this is what I had to say about the Eclipse interconnect: “There’s no shortage ...

Perspective can be a rare commodity in a world where the latest “next best thing” always seems to grab the headlines. I wrote about the Synergistic Research Tesla Cables back in Issue 171 and was ...

Cable Research Lab may not be as immediately familiar as certain monster-scale wire companies but its designs harken back to the creations of Paul Weitzel and Winston Ma in the late 1990s, when they were ...

Reviewing interconnect and speaker cable is the closest thing to latrine duty that an equipment reviewer can pull. To compare two sets of wires— your references (which in my case are mainly Nordost Valhalla) and ...

During a recent factory tour, Ted Denney, founder and chief designer of Synergistic Research, demonstrated the inspiration behind his new Tesla cable line. In a small “treatment” room off the factory floor, Denney unveiled a ...

Gold’s mystique is as gripping today as it has been throughout the ages, and this charismatic metal continues to be a source of enchantment for high-end companies as well. From gold-plated preamp knobs, phase plugs, ...