Jason Victor Serinus

CES 2015

MyWorld from Micromega

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 14, 2015

MyCamera was positioned too close to Micromega's MyWorld cabling to take a focused picture. So let's let the cable do the talking...

CES 2015

Incorporating noise-cancelling geometries, DH Labs' forthcoming flagship Corona power cord (approx. $850/1.5m) is triple-shielded. The company's Greg Hovsepian notes that the cord, which makes "proprietary use of 1386 individual strands of silver-coated copper, is manufactured in the US.

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Wilson Revisits the WAMM

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

In two small, private presentations in the Mirage, Dave Wilson joined several other indispensible members of his teamhis son Daryl and wife Sheryl Lee, as well as Peter McGrath and John Giolasto present a jaw-dropping mock up of the proposed, superhumanly proportioned successor to the original WAMM.

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Quadraspire's Looker of a Rack

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

The Sound Organisation's Barnaby Fry (left), David Carr (center), and Sally Goff (right) had ever reason to smile as they showed off a rack claimed to offer the fastest, quietest, and most dynamic and spacious presentation of all Quadraspire racks.

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PranaWire Scores a Touchdown

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

I'm referring to the company's new PranaWire Linebacker XE ($12,500), an in-line passive power filter with what it's designer, Joe Cohen of The Lotus Group, calls two stages of passive filtering materials and a "super enhanced" ground plane.

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Transparent Audio for a New Generation

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

Transparent Audio's new Gen 5 (Generation 5) family of cabling supersedes their MM2 line. With resonance control and network technologies derived directly from their year-old flagship, fittingly called Magnum Opus, Gen 5 includes new cable, new networks, and new network enclosures.

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Hardwired for Newcomers

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

Transparent also introduced the colorful, entry-level Hardwired brand, which is designed to satisfy the wants of newcomers to the fold.

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T+A Elektroakustik's new Cable Line

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

With the assistance of Jochen Fabricius, who designed T+A's new cable line, I learned that T+A's Speaker Hex ($1600/3m pair) uses new Rhodium contacts, and contains six cores of stranded wire that are twisted for low inductance.

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Furutech's New Flagship Power Cable

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

Scot Markwell of Elite AV Distribution proudly displayed Furutech's top-of-the-line Nanoflux power cable ($4395/1.8m, almost 6 feet). The cable's wire is coated with Nanofluid, microscopic gold and silver suspended in squalene oil that fills in tiny gaps between wire crystals to improve performance.

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Headphone Cable from Wireworld

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 13, 2015

Larry Smith (left) and David Salz (right) of Wireworld have every reason to smile. Not only have they entered the headphone cable market with four levels of Nano cables for headphones and portables, and stand prepared to market a Starlight CAT7a media network cable ($TBD) that claims higher transmission speeds for streamed music and video, but they've also come out on top in a recently published cable listening comparison test.