great audiophile cables - a true story!

About two years ago, I was in London with a plan to visit a person whom I had met via an eBay transaction. From this meeting our great audiophile cables story begins.

Because of the very first meeting just a couple of months earlier, where I was able to help set up a new pair of the latest loudspeakers made by “Tannoy” the Kingdom Royals a friendship had developed. for more information on Tannoy Kingdom Royal Loudspeakers please click here

The meeting

The last time we met I was telling my new friend all about my exploits in the audio world and that I was making and testing audiophile cables in Lithuania. I had started to carry out sound tests on the power cord and that I would return the next month with a set for him to try.

I arrived at my friends house and was greeted with a warm welcome. As I entered I could hear the familiar sound of his system. “Well, what do you think” my friend asked. I replied that I thought it sounded much better than last time but still but needed a tweak. At this point, the doorbell rang and it was one of his friends who had come to listen to the new system. I got to work straight away and after about half an hour had the system set up and sounding really great.

Now it was time for a good old cup of tea as we sat and listened to some of the test music that my friend had prepared we discussed what we would do.

The testing

The cables were tested on the source machine. We were unable to see the order of the cables under test because we were positioned in such a way that a chair hid my friend from our view as I think he wanted to prove that his cables were better. My friend had paid a lot of money for some of his cables and of course, there was the element of pride to be considered.

The music was played and the first cable tested and we wrote down our comments and gave the scores as we had agreed. It was now the turn of the second cable and we went through the same process and got the results. We continued in the same manner for all the cables and as I stated earlier we did five tests but there were only four cables.

Now it was time for the results and we all came together to compare and to see how things had fared. The price of the cables started at 20 pounds, the next was 225 pounds and the next was 785 pounds and finally 1500 pounds. Quite a range to cover so you would naturally expect to hear a big difference. And indeed we had heard a very big difference in the cables but the scores were exactly the same from all of us which was really amazing!

The result

The first we heard was the standard cables supplied with the unit and we all gave it 3/10. The next cable turned out to be the cable that cost 785 pounds and we all had given it 7/10. The next cable we heard was the 225 pounds cable and we had given that 9/10 and the last cable we heard was the 1500 pound cable and scored that at 8/10. The cable which had been put in twice was the 785 pounds cable.

It had been a great audiophile cables test and everything had been done very well. The next step was to bring out of hiding another power cord which I knew nothing about as my friend was keeping it as a surprise. In went the new power cord which cost 2250 pounds was tested and marked in the same way. This cord scored 10/10 and sounded better than the other cables in every way. That concluded the testing of the great audiophile cables power cord.

The next thing we did was to replace the main amplifier power cord with the 2250 pound power cord and listen to the sound. There was now an improvement in every way. The next step was to remove the other power cords from the system and replace them with my power cords because yes (hate to say it ) mine were the winner in the tests. Now, as we sat and listened, we were able to hear what the Kingdom Royals really sounded like and in a word “breathtaking.”

 

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