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Enough lame-ass, squeaky progressive rock. Without a doubt, the weightiest record in my collection is Vladimir Ashkenazy’s performance of Franz Schubert’s Sonata in G Major, Op. 78 (LP, London CS6820). The first movement, “Fantasie,” which takes up the entire first side, is structurally massive. This isn’t complicated music, being all low, sonorous left-hand notes, but it’s the emotion, the power that Ashkenazy pours into this piece that makes it so insanely powerful. I’ve listened to other versions of this sonata, and I keep coming back to this planet-smasher.

With the Siltechs in the amplification chain, both ends of each note were juiced up. The leading edge gained a quicker sense of ramping up to full impact, while the tails of each key strike continued on just a little further in perception as they trailed off into infinity. These were notable, substantial gains.

After inserting the Royal Single Crown power cords and interconnects, I paid a fair bit of attention to the system’s tonal balance, but didn’t notice any overt changes worth mentioning. Once the cables had broken in, the small amount of additional bite and sizzle up top vaporized, and I was left with the changes to soundstage depth, midrange delicacy, and dynamic snap consuming my awareness. And this is as it should be. Cables often act as tone controls: boosting bass, increasing or subduing treble. I don’t want that. My system, with the Bowers & Wilkins 805 D4 Signatures, sounds as close to perfect as it ever has. With just the Royal Single Crown speaker cables in place, I’d have said I don’t want to change anything. But what I’m hearing now isn’t so much a change as it is a refinement, a housecleaning, an enhancement of everything that’s good about music.

I truly enjoyed my time with the Danacable Lazuli™ Voilà II Headphone Cable, like all Danacables, they give you more without changing the character of your headphone. While quite pricy, it is money well spent on a headphone of this caliber. The extra separation provided by the use of two distinct separate cables is well appreciated, and the use of bridges to both keep the cables apart and together greatly facilitated this upgrade. There was a clear difference in dynamic range, detail, resolution, timbre quality, and soundstage with the Lazuli™ Rhapsody Headphone Cable versus the stock cable, there was an equal improvement with the Voilà II versus the Rhapsody. The phase linearity and current capacity of the Voilà II bring the SUSVARA to a whole new level of performance, especially when it comes to the low frequencies where control is so difficult.

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The overall neutrality of the Art Series Monets, their quick, insightful nature, and their coherence and imaging is certainly part of a family sound that translates over to the Royal Single Crowns. The Siltechs, though, add in a most endearing character through the midrange, fleshing out instruments and voices in a manner that the Monets can’t quite match. I noted other improvements in the frequency extremes, like increased definition that better focused the flying wedge of basses and drums, and a clearer, more incisive treble that provided more easily digestible information, especially at higher volumes.

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Throughout my listening to Shunyata Research’s Theta speaker cables, all genres of music flowed with transparent immediacy that rivaled a live performance. Most impressively, the sotto voce portions of the music I auditioned were audible and clearly defined. The Theta speaker cables provided nuanced detail, clarity, and focus, along with exceptional dynamics. I had a preternatural sense of hearing deeper into all the music I auditioned without feeling overwhelmed with information. I was extremely sad to see these cables leave my system. I recommend Shunyata’s Theta speaker cables to enthusiasts who want exceptional performance without needing to take out a second mortgage.

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or the most salient of comparisons in my reference system, after installing the two-an-a-half meter spade terminated speaker cables ($150,900/pair) between my True Life Audio SSA-350 monos and my Von Schweikert Audio ULTRA 9 loudspeakers, I installed the one-meter balanced interconnects ($68,000/pair) between my DSA Phono III phonostage and my True Life Audio SSP-1 linestage, and the two meter AC power cord ($51,800) to power the DSA Phono III as well. And, I did them in that order, with considerable time in between each installation, in the hopes that I would be able to identify each product’s individual contribution to the resultant sound.