This is not a review. Consider it more of an appreciation. - This story began at Munich High End 2015 in the Sound Galleries room:
"Do you have a favorite room at the show so far?" asked Geoff Armstrong as I sat in his room on the last day of the show. "Yea, this one." I replied.
That room has stuck in my mind ever since. There was "stunning clarity", something Geoff and Co. seem to enjoy combined with: "Spark of life. Great control, delicate. Embodiment of singer. Lovely".
What does this have to do with cables?
The sound I heard in the Sound Galleries room in Munich was the product of a complete system, which includes cables, and the cables in use were from Tellurium Q, a company new to me at the time. When I return from Munich, I started looking into Tellurium Q cables.
Fast forward to RMAF 2015 where I learned that Fidelis had become their US Distributor. Hmm, I thought.
Fast forward to roughly a month ago and I sent a request to Fidelis for a loaner pair of their Black XLR cable and Black USB.
The idea being, I wanted to try them in my system based on a hunch. The day they arrived, I placed them in my system and let them play music for about a week before devoting my animal brain to the sound of my system and the inevitable A|Bing.
My hunch paid off. What I heard was greater clarity, a more natural presentation, a more open yet defined sound image, improved tonal qualities and, taking a few steps back, a more engaging musical experience. So I shot off another email to Fidelis asking for a pair of their Black speaker cables.
What he said: "greater clarity, a more natural presentation, a more open yet defined sound image, improved tonal qualities and, taking a few steps back, a more engaging musical experience."
My hunch was that the sound I heard in the Sound Galleries room in Munich was due, in part, to the cables (dah). And I was correct, at least in terms of how they perform in my system and how my ear/brain system reacts to the sound of my system with the Tellurium Q cables as part of it. I'll also mention that I change cables about as often as I change undercoating.
The thing is, cables being part of a system, which in turn communicates to our ear/brain system, pretty much makes their performance site- and user-specific. The Tellurium Q cables are two-for-two on my scorecard.
Like I said, this is not a review, more of an appreciation. I'm appreciating my music even more. SOLD.
…..Michael Lavorgna