C-screen is a brand new shielded speaker cable aimed at both audio and home cinema systems. It joins the line up of Chord Company shielded speaker cables, including the Clearway and the Signature Reference. Chord’s design objective was to produce a cable discreet enough for easy installation, with all the performance benefits that shielding can […]
Black Cat cables are the brainchild of Chris Sommovigo and are handmade in Japan. Dave Robson takes a listen to the company’s Redlevel Tube speaker cable ($450 for a 1.5m pair) and RCA interconnects ($350 for 1m).
Mad Scientist Audio Ltd has released a range of what their recent press release is calling “innovative” audio cables that use carbon fibers in the signal path. The New Zealand based company say this technology brings benefits like “immunity from skin effect, much smaller Eddy currents, which are quickly dissipated, and in the digital cable, […]
The Chord Company, has launched Clearway Digital — “a high-performance digital coaxial cable designed and built to deliver the full potential of today’s high-quality digital music.” Clearway Digital is an all-new Tuned ARAY digital audio cable at a price point of £100. Available in a wide range of terminations, including a 3.5mm mono jack for […]
Dominic Marsh plugs in the Purple Rain series of speaker cables from Polish manufacturer Melodika (€71.00 for 2.5m pair).
Cable wars must surely be the biggest single cause of conflict and injury between audiophiles and the reason I’ve not got involved in one in a good old while…better just to keep quiet, watch from a distant hilltop and let the troops on the virtual front line battle it out ad-infinitum, though casualties will inevitably […]
Tellurium Q, the UK based cable manufacturer got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us all about their latest Ultra Silver Power cables. In their press release they say that the new power cables have “Even cleaner, more focused and more agile sound than the multi award wining Black power cable, with more precise […]
Synergistic Research is launching their new Atmosphere Series Power Cords at next weeks Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver Colorado. The Californian company’s Atmosphere Series AC Cords Feature: Active / UEF Shielding with built in power supplies so no MPC’s and no additional wires UEF AC Conditioner in Level 2 and Level 3 variants World’s […]
“Would you like to hear the human voice reproduced as clear and as present as when it was recorded, and delivered with the same emotion and intimacy with which it was sung? Well now you can” or so says the latest press release from Studio Connections about their newly launched Platinum Digital interconnects. Award-winning, top […]
WAY cables hail from Serbia. Dominic Marsh checks out two of their offerings in the form of their Silver 2 and Silver 4 Interconnects.
So then, the basic minimum criteria for a mains cable’s performance is that it must get the old juice from the wall socket to the input of my hi-fi component without spilling any of it on the carpet. Hifi Pig does not advocate anyone making ANY unauthorized or unsafe changes to their mains supply or […]
Polish cable manufacturer have announced a new version of their best selling Monolith speaker cables. They are called Monolith Reference. The main difference on the aesthetic/functional side is that both wires are now no longer connected by the badge clamp and they come completely separated. Design has been changed and the new ribbons used for […]
KBL Sound from Poland got in touch to tell us all about their new flagship Signature series, Himalaya, which they say is the culmination of their long-term efforts to create such cables allowing the highest standard of audio equipment to reveal their full potential. “We have used costly and time-consuming solutions, as no other way exists […]
The Chord Company, has launched Clearway — a high-performance, low-cost speaker cable that replaces Carnival SilverScreen and introduces a raft of advanced features. During the development of Clearway, valuable research was carried out in relation to the behaviour of conductors and different dielectrics (insulation). For a long time, Chord has understood the importance of the relationship between conductor […]
Tellurium Q, UK manufacturer of audio cables, has announced a brand new digital RCA cable to compliment the ongoing development across its range of interconnects, speaker and digital cables. “The new Ultra Silver Waveform II digital RCA from Tellurium Q steps beyond the technology of the original Waveform and significantly improves on the acclaimed performance […]
Melodika, one of the biggest Polish manufacturers of hi-fi cables, is expanding its Purple Rain offer with new power cables with grounding, terminated with Schuko plug and IEC C13 socket. The distinguishing feature of new Melodika product is shielding and this shielding in greatest extent is responsible for minimizing the impact of electromagnetic interference on […]