Tellurium Q Ultra Black II & Ultra Silver II speaker cables First of all, let me be clear about my long history with Tellurium Q loudspeaker cables. Many years ago, when I worked in the retail side of the audio industry, I bought with my own hard-earned (well I thought so) money, a pair of […]
Montaudio Bowen AC-1, Godley USB, Rakaia EH-1, Chatham SH-1 cable loom Apparently, there aren’t as many sheep in New Zealand these days so audio companies are taking up the economic slack, one such is Montaudio who make a wide range of cables and a beautiful rack, the Manuka MR, which is priced towards the top […]
Connected-Fidelity AC-2K Reference balanced power supply, Six Star distribution block & Unity Power Two cables We all know how important it is to choose the individual components of our systems carefully, usually with protracted listening tests at a retailer and in our homes. But a system is more than just a turntable, CD player, streamer, […]
William Eikos Terra Nova interconnect and Ultra Litz Field speaker cable Bill Funnell-Pilcher was a member of the Trichord triumvirate back in the nineties when it revealed that CD players could be significantly enhanced by upgrading the clocks within them, at the time the notion that clock quality mattered was a new one in digital […]
Network Acoustics muon2 USB cable It could be argued that within the niche world of high-end audio streaming, Network Acoustics is changing our expectations of what is possible, at least at sub second mortgage levels anyway. Despite not even being their top model, the eno2 streaming system we recently reviewed has taken my listening enjoyment […]
Russ Andrews X6 block MkII, RF Router, Technical Ground Weave, Evolution-300 Powerkord, Yello Power, DC Blocker Russ Andrews has long been of the opinion that power delivery and grounding are critical to the potential of any sound system, he introduced an audiophile power cable as far back as 1986 and have a number of useful […]
Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II interconnect cable Way back when I was an avid consumer of audio things, before I joined the industry in retail, I picked up information from all sorts of sources. I read the magazines of course, I went to audio shows and later on I joined some online forums. Somewhere during […]
Network Acoustics eno2 streaming filter system The eno was a lockdown project between Richard Trussell, an ex-IT professional who is a qualified electronics engineer, and Rob Osbourne, who previously worked as a publisher, filmmaker and DJ. Dissatisfied with the sonic results they were hearing from their music streaming systems, they worked together and came up […]
QED Supremus Zr loudspeaker cable When The Ear was offered one of the first samples of the new flagship QED Supremus Zr loudspeaker cable, we couldn’t resist. I personally was very keen to see what this British cable pioneer could do with this “no compromise” newcomer. Owned by Armour Home since 2004, cables and accessories […]
Chord Company Epic Digital Tuned Aray cable The Chord Company has been revising its Epic range of cables these last few months. Keen readers may remember my review of the Epic X interconnects last year. I still owe them a big thank-you for coming to the rescue and supplying me with an Epic AES/EBU earlier […]
Atlas Arran Ultra L RCA Grun This review started slightly differently to the norm. A friend came to listen to some music and asked if I had a spare interconnect in the many boxes of cables that have built up over the years. So we started to listen to a few of those that I […]
Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II USB cable Never did I think that a one-metre cable would change the sound of my system quite so much. But did this short USB cable bring a change for the better? Speaking to the guys from Hegel at the Oslo Hi-Fi Show I decided that I wanted to experiment […]