REVIEW: Slinkylinks Speaker Cable Cable

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Model: Speaker Cable
Category: Cable
Suggested Retail Price: $480 (US)
Description: 3m bi-wire silver cable
Manufacturer URL: Slinkylinks
Manufacturer URL: Slinkylinks
Review by CSF (A) on October 26, 2002 at 20:55:14
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Having tried and been bowled over by the Slinkylink interconnect I had to take the next step and totally wire my rig out with the stuff. Nominally this review is for the speaker cable but in reality it's my impressions of, in the manufacturers terms, "The Slinkyzone" which is simply having the cables throughout. In my case this means two pair of interconnects and the speaker cables. Previously I was using Audioquest Python interconnects and a single bi-wire run of Audioquest Gibraltar - a combination that had given me lots of pleasure and that I thought I'd have to spend a lot of money to better. Well bowl me down if I haven't improved on all areas for LESS money.
(For those that didn't see the review of the interconnects - which I can't find in the review achieve anywhere! - the same technology is used in both the interconnects and speaker cables. Pure .25mm silver in plastic tubes which provides an air-dialectic, terminated with Eichmann bullet plugs for the interconnects, and high quality Swiss made hollow banana plugs for the speaker cable. The interconnects aren't shielded and both are physically very lightweight and transparent. To get over the problem of the fragility of .25mm solid silver, the silver strands are helixed through the tubes, which means they can be coiled and uncoiled repeatedly with no risk of damage.)
After a few days settling in the cables just flat out disappeared and they haven't been heard from since. For the first time I feel like I'm really hearing what my components can do. The sound is now more detailed, dynamic, faster, totally grainless, and just more organic. There's a real live feel with leading edges having more definition and the increased dynamics bringing greater realism to the music. I described it to friend as being like Naim in a cable when it comes to the feel and PRaT of the music. Details become more obvious due to the blackness of the background, and the music seems to have been freed from the speakers more. (Certainly the little Epos's are still guilty of drawing the occasional higher frequency instrument or sound to them, but this trait has been lessoned dramatically.)
The bottom end has become far more articulate, the lack of bloat in the bass giving the appearance of greater depth and impact. Although on first listen you may think you've lost some bass you soon realise it's quite the opposite. I'm finding that even when playing music at background volume levels I get drawn to the music, not needing to wind it up to get the dynamics happening. That said, I can also wind the wick more now when I feel like it and the sound stays just as pure as at lower volumes.
If I sound like a believer that's because I am. I've never heard (not heard!) a better cable for anything like this price. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Product Weakness: None that I can find.
Product Strengths: Transparency. It has no sound of its own but it allows through greater detail, dynamics, bass, smoothness, etc, etc.
Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier: Musical Fidelity A3CR
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): Musical Fidelity A3CR
Sources (CDP/Turntable): Meridian 508.24
Speakers: Epos M15
Cables/Interconnects: Slinklylinks
Music Used (Genre/Selections): A bit of everything but mainly jazz/alt country/african
Type of Audition/Review: Product Owner

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Topic - REVIEW: Slinkylinks Speaker Cable Cable - CSF 20:55:14 10/26/02 (1)

Here's the link for the Slinkylink IC review you wrote.. - Audio Pharaoh 14:35:29 10/27/02 (0)

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Model:	Speaker Cable
Category:	Cable
Suggested Retail Price:	$480 (US)
Description:	3m bi-wire silver cable
Manufacturer URL:	Slinkylinks
Manufacturer URL:	Slinkylinks

Product Weakness:	None that I can find.
Product Strengths:	Transparency. It has no sound of its own but it allows through greater detail, dynamics, bass, smoothness, etc, etc.

Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier:	Musical Fidelity A3CR
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated):	Musical Fidelity A3CR
Sources (CDP/Turntable):	Meridian 508.24
Speakers:	Epos M15
Cables/Interconnects:	Slinklylinks
Music Used (Genre/Selections):	A bit of everything but mainly jazz/alt country/african
Type of Audition/Review:	Product Owner