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Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
Hi, so the XLR cables...after the first 30 seconds of music...the change in sound was well...how should I put it... astonishing. Everything improved, but most apparent was a change in dynamics...the sound became more "live" and engaging. It pulled you in more. More air around the instruments, better attack on transients, and both a more extended high end and low end. Not sure I believe it yet myself, but these are my first instinct kind of impressions. Maybe it's just a good music night and this could be confirmation bias to a certain degree. But in any case, congratulations on these XLR cables.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
I’m definitely noticing a house sound. Each cable of yours I put in replaces a cable that is more expensive. I much prefer yours. Don’t get me wrong the audioquest are good and they would still be there if not for audio sensibility. I really like idea of supporting a local guy also.
The other cables are rich full bodied but seem kind of flat compared to yours. Listening to music with your cables in the system, it’s like the walls are no longer there or at the very least moved way out.
I will be ordering one more and then I’ll be finished. The next one I buy will be replacing a cable which is three times the price.
The sound stage produced with your cables is amazing. I suppose you can tell you have a very happy customer.
Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
the cable is just perfect! Love it! Easily outperforming the 3x as expensive HMS XLR cable i was using before. Good Job!
Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
Product: Statement Spade-Banana (Universal) Jumpers (SKU AS_SJSB)
Steve, you were right about not returning the Signature XLR silver cable. As much as I like the sound of the copper Statement SE cable, the Signature is absolutely wonderful. When you add that to Dirac room correction, you are in another dimension, bringing out so much unheard of joy and revelation.
I also cannot say enough about how much your jumper cables, replacing the original brass jumper plates, have transformed my Tannoy Revolution XT 8 speakers, driven by a McIntosh 275-5 tube amp.
Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
The Signature OCC silver XLR has worked out very nicely indeed. It's audibly better than the Statement XLR I was using, and also better than the Audience au24 SE XLR, both of which were too long anyway. This is my first experience with a silver cable, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how good it sounds.
Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
I received the Signature XLRs yesterday and while I cant yet speak definitively – Yikes – the Signature XLRs appear a big step up from the Statement XLRs. Though I am not sure those words do the SQ improvement justice. I don’t know if you still experience the ‘Wow’ moments but I certainly did last night. Thanks.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
OMG !!!!! What a difference between these and the XLR in my system. It’s like comparing a Prius with a Ferrari !!!! The cables certainly are the ‘autobhan’ to continue the analogy. In any case they are astounding. I am no longer listening to ‘what needs to be tweaked’ and instead listening to MUSIC and performers. These cables certainly are right at home with the Esoteric and Burson in RCA mode. There is a wee bit of sibilance on certain recordings , but I suspect that will be tamed as the cables ‘break-in’. It’s very minor. Thanks so much for your help and understanding here. These are so..... good I’d walk to TO to get them !
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
I recently purchased a pair of Signature Silver Interconnects. I can not believe what these cables did to my system. Unbelievable! Wish I had these cables in my system years ago. Thanks! I will be spreading the word!
Product: Signature Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_XXLR)
I want to let you know I am pleased with my recent purchase of the Signature Silver XLR cables from you. As you had indicated on the phone with me, your Signature Silver is not an edgy bright sound. It is substantially finer sound presentation than the Mogami cables. I have tried it both with preamp and going direct to my active crossover, and really like the X1 with these direct to the active crossover.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
I have put significantly more hours on these RCA cables and the sound is now close to perfect.
I have them between my PrimaLuna Pre Amp and Anthem P2 power amp.
They are as musical a cable as I have ever heard.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
This cable arrived this afternoon and I connected them between my Phono Stage and Processor.
Just finished 4.5hrs of listening to my favourite LP’s that I know note for note.
First impressions are extremely good! I heard a lot of detail I had not noticed before. Separation was stunning.
These cables certainly bring the music to life, as they convey all the pace, rhythm and dynamics in the songs.
Makes them sound so lifelike. They control the music so effortlessly, which makes it totally unfatiguing to listen to.
I will certainly not be returning these cables. Will be ordering a pair of Signature XLR’s very soon.
Keep up the great work.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
Cable arrived in good shape last saturday. Sounds great on my cd player and in combination with the Silver Signature between pre and power.Best interconnect i ever heard! Thanks again for your kind discount offer and custom help! Very much appreciated.
Product: Statement SE Silver XLR Interconnects (SKU AS_SXLRSES)
Steve, I want to commend you on your Signature Silver XLR interconnect cable. I recently completed an extensive evaluation of seven different XLR cables in my system between the preamplifier and amplifier. In the end, I chose your cable because it provided the most musically involving and enjoyable listening experience.
After burning in all of the cables for at least 400 hours (and this was crucial in getting the best sound out of all the cables, especially the Signature Silver), what impressed me the most about the Signature Silver was how relaxed and non-fatiguing it sounded while still presenting as much or more musical detail than the other cables. Your cable allowed me to hear a number of new sounds that I hadn’t heard before on familiar recordings through the other cables. It was only after hearing this new information through your cable was I able to go back and pick it out with some of the other cables. The information was there, it just wasn’t noticeable enough to hear it until the Signature Silver revealed it first.
The Signature Silver presented all this detail without ever becoming bright or edgy. The only other cable that came close to this level of detail retrieval could become irritatingly bright on occasion. The Signature Silver simply presented the music in a natural, relaxed way that allowed me to make a more emotional connection to the performance. Yes, the Signature Silver had the upper hand in many of the technical, audiophile criteria we all get excited about, but it was the deeper connection to the music the cable allowed that had the biggest impact on my enjoyment.
The above notwithstanding, there are four key technical performance areas that the Signature Silver really excelled. First is its ability to present clearly defined images within a very large, holographic soundstage. The stage is very wide and deep and individual images are clearly separated from one another. I believe this is one reason this cable allowed me to hear sounds that had escaped me in the past. Each sound image is so well defined in its own unique space that it becomes very easy to hear and follow along with it through the course of a song. Be it left to right or front to back, there is a place for everything and everything is in its place.
The second area in which the Signature Silver excels is its speed. The leading edges of transients start so quickly that it could be alarming at times. My system seemed to respond more rapidly to the musical signal, starting and stopping in a more natural yet exciting way.
The third area where the Signature Silver really shines is at the frequency extremes. At the high end, cymbals, bells and triangles all have a sense of shimmer, airiness and detail that sounds absolutely lifelike. This detail also allows the decay of the high frequencies to linger longer. Low frequencies are equally well served with great bass extension, impact, dynamics and articulation. I felt my chest shudder on the deepest notes more often with the Signature Silver than any of the other cables.
The fourth and final area where I feel the Signature Silver outperformed the other cables might just be the reason it performs so well in some of the other areas I just mentioned. The cable avoids adding a layer of noise that I didn’t even notice before, until it was gone. The first place I noticed this was the very quiet background. This dark silence between images is likely what makes them so clearly delineated from other images on the soundstage. The quiet background also contributed to the greater differentiation of micro dynamic shadings and the extended decay of notes as they trailed off to complete silence.
However, this silence or lack of noise was at play in more than just a quiet background. It seems that some layer of grit or haze that was surrounding voices and instruments had been stripped away allowing them to sound more pure and less artificial. It is this aspect of the cable’s performance that I believe contributed the most to the relaxed, natural presentation of the music and allowed for the deeper emotional connection to it.
Some of the other cables in my evaluation exhibited some or all of these qualities to a certain degree, but it was the Signature Silver that brought them all together to deliver the most enjoyable listening experience in my system.
I should also note that build quality on the Signature Silver is extremely high and the cable appeared to be one of the most durable in my evaluation. The Furutech XLR connectors with the custom stainless steel shells are also built to a high standard and were very easy to connect to my equipment each time throughout the evaluation (that wasn’t true of several of the other cables in the evaluation). The cable is also fairly flexible, so it was easy to route through my cabinets to my equipment.
After spending many, many hours evaluating seven highly touted cables, I can say with confidence that in my system, the Signature Silver was my top choice by a significant margin.
Product: Signature Silver RCA Interconnects (SKU AS_XRCA)
The Signature RCA Interconnects cable is fantastic!