If it’s one thing that varies as much as choice of conductor, geometry and dielectric in the wild, wild world of audiophile cables, then that is their build quality. I’ve seen interconnects boasting silver strands and fancy plugs that look like they’ve been soldered by a donkey. A donkey with a blindfold. Which is why for a cable to land on these pages it must not only promise the best materials but also deliver the very highest standards of construction
When naming the three most important factors to consider when choosing cables, the answer is a simple mantra. Sound Quality, sound quality, and, last but not least, sound quality. Cables allow us to ‘fine tune’ the sound of our hi-fi set-ups, ensuring we achieve an end result that pleases the ear – a bit like adding seasoning to food to make it taste better. Or is it? A very different school of thought says a good cable simply acts as a pure neutral conduit – neither adding nor subtracting from the original signal.
The Furutech Audio Reference III XLR was also of such rarity in its alanced suite of
virtues that even with budget components, like the 2,490 Krell KAV-400xi integrated amplifier, it never presented a dull sonic adventure, in addition to conveying the budget Krell’s
dynamic and output potency.
“…The quality of silence between and around the notes — the level of black if you will — is indicative of that. It’s not
an artificial deep-space vacuum silence but something that makes it easy to hear the otherwise subliminal stuff. This
ease of far smaller attention demands contributes to the flavor of natura
Luxuriously crafted with abundant use of NCF, the
AAEX2024 Grand Prix award-winning model.
