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Do you like your Guerrilla Audio Cables?
Hello Jason, TM Hi Jason, The cables are awesome. They are serving their purpose very well. Thanks, Vernon. ______________ Just hooked up. Wonderful sound, imaging...I haven't heard better and have heard a lot. Thanks, Ed ______________ Hello Jason,
______________ I am using the PP (push pull) on the woofers and SE (Single Ended) on the Tweets/mids on some Axiom M60 speakers. The build quality really is exceptional. I was pleased to see that the cables came with un-plated copper spades made by Cardas. After only about half a day these cables were clearly going to stay in my system. They have a very neutral tonal balance that is extended on both ends. Don't let the small gauge bias your judgment, these cables have the best bass I have heard in my system. It is punchy, extended and detailed. The sound is very natural and has clarity and detail in spades. When I first listened critically (about 6 hours in) nothing stood out. They didn't blow me away by anything they were doing. This was a good thing, as when something "catches" your attention on first listen, it may end up being a distraction in the long run. After only a week they are very open sounding, but will probably continue to improve in this regard. The RAM Toshiba can deliver a beautifully layered sound and the Guerrilla cables seem to take this even further.
______________ The power cords worked out fine with my Rogue monoblocks,they are a real audio bargain at your price point! Ted ______________ Got your power cord and man it is good! George ______________ just to let you: Yes,your interconnects are superior to the $1000 Audio magic sorcerer to my ears and I'll be selling them in the near future! best regards AT
I received the Copper Interconnects and just wanted to tell you that I am very impressed with them. The Copper Interconnects really suprised me with their ULTRA clear and clean presentation right out of the box. The soundstage also impressed me. Soundstage depth was what struck me most. These cables are a true bargain. Its nice to see such quality and value in what I believe to be a ridiculous market. At $85 for a 1 meter pair of high quality, Bullet plug terminated interconnects you cant go wrong! These interconnects bettered a pair of highly regarded VH Audio Pulsars that I have been auditioning. The VH Pulsars are pretty good but really didnt live up to the hype. I tried them in three different systems and they really never impressed anyone who heard them. The Guerrillas on the hand are a much more holographic sounding cable. The highs are smooth and crystal clear. The mids are liquid with no exaggeration and the bass is solid and tight. Tight baby, yeah! Anyway, thanks for bringing high quality and value back to the HI END. Thanks and have a great day. Joe Todd My wife and my nephew said right away how much clearer the Guerrillas sounded than my reference speaker cable. I think it's noteworthy that they offered this with no questioning on my part. My nephew added that the bass is better too. When I swapped out the interconnets for yours everything really came into focus. I guess there's a bit of a scientist in me and I have a urge to make further comparisons and objective observations, but the Guerrillas sound so good that I'm asking myself "what's the point". By the way, I was particularly impressed with the bass definition though I thought what I had was good, these leave little to nothing to the imagination allowing me to follow the bass line easily. On James Taylors "Fire and Rain" there is a bass tone that before sounded like a one note digery do, but now, sounds more like a bass violin playing a bass line. The xylophone that I had mentioned to you earlier on the Cat Stephens "Tuesdays Dead" is much more obvious and distinct. There's a very real quality to the music through your cables. I think you have a really good ear and refined taste in sound. Darell Wow! It only took a moment to realize how good these cables are. The change in the sound commanded my attention in away that nothing before ever has. My strong inclination is to say that these cables come close to being non existant. It also occured to me that when a reviewer reviews any piece of audio equipment what he is really reviewing is his system. There's a bit of self agrandizement involved, so let me try to avoid the hyperbole.. Music sounds very realistic through these cables. Compared to reality my system doesn't produce the bottom octave. There is slight compression in the midrange and even though I listen to a tube preamp through electrostatics, the midrange isn't as palpable as I've heard (I heard an audio research through some antique audio hurricanes into a pair of soundlab A1s that came mighty close to real) and a slight supension of disbelief is required to "be there" in this way. The noise floor is so low that the subltest details are made obvious and even the musical nuances at this level are made obvious but again there is a slight compression with instruments being a little crowded and on an occasional recording these details start to blend into the background. Notwithstanding the above I'm pretty darn close. I believe that anyone on an upgrade path should address the power coming into the room, the outlet, the power cables, then the interconnects, then the speaker cables then the preamp, then the amp, the source and finally the speakers. Why spend 10 grand on speakers and another 7 on an amp if you really don't know what they sound like, if you really aren't exploiting their potential? I would submit that your interconnects are so good that any component can be reviewed with these in line more truthfully with less conjecture as to the ostensible signiture of the cables. I'm obviously keeping these! Anyway, terrific product! Darell The amps were literally starved for power. No more hum off the transformers. I actually had to dial back the bias trim because they now are getting the Juice they needed. I feel bad that they were being choked so badly before. I am going to call the good folks at deHavilland and tell them to never, ever again ship their stuff with those piece of s#@T excuses for power cords that they were using. No time now. Must listen some more…
AJ Cables arrived today suberb as the previous ones many thanks AT Thanks. Jeffrey I just love my .05 mm IC. very impressed with the build and sound quality . Thanks & take care, Ron I need one more pair of your fabulous interconnects.They really are fantastic! AT Cables received. Thanks. After a brief listen last night, and some A/B with Valhalla, my thought was that you are a very savvy marketer with your challenge to compare your cables to anything under $500. I have not hear even a majority of cables in that price range, but your cable is so far superior to anything I have heard $500 that I would bet you would win every time. Regards, Jerry The cable arrived yesterday. They sound excellent. Thanks a lot for all your help. Marosh My wife and I both have studied music and my buddy is a CADD designer. 7 of 8 times in a darkened room my wife picked the “Gorillas”. My buddy said that it was like Dorothy stepping into Oz. The Guerrillas are vivid with great depth, detail and excellent bass definition. They seem to have a liquid character in the way of the best tube amplifiers (in my view people choosing tubes because they are “warm” is missing the point). Gorillas portray a technicolor image with the kind of clarity of a Canon EOS 20D. Each image in the panorama of sound has its own color texture and flavor. This is one of the most exciting audio purchases I have ever made. Congratulations on a fabulous product; you have wonderful taste in sound. Darrel Just to let you know that I received the cable today. I had most of my system wired with a mixture of Monster,QED and MIT interconnects which I thought to be very good for the money and Audio Magic sorcerer for the cd and speakers. I can tell that your cable was a revelation and miles ahead of the Monster ,Qed and MIT when I A-B tested them on my reference valve headphone amplifier(wooaudio 3 +Sennheiser hd600). It was rich, clean,fast and a lot of fun.All the music flows uninterrupted,the midband is very natural,the frequency extremes unrestricted and for the first time I realised how much jitter my EAD cd player produces (thanks a lot!!). I don't dare to try them against my $1000 Audio Magic Sorcerer because I fear to be dissapointed. I'll allow for a few weeks for the cables to burn-in and then I'll decide if I'll sell my Audio Magic cables and buy 4-5 of yours. This is a seriously good cable that made the best improvement in my system to-date.
p.s. Can I make a headphone version for the sennheiser using a pair of these interconnects properly soldered with the right plugs, you think? (I'm a bit of a headphone buff,you see) Do you make longer version of it ? As an interconnect is truly stunning.Expect more orders from me in the future A. Tzanis Now that I have listened to your Guerrilla speaker cables and interconnects for a few weeks, I would like to offer the following unqualified observations. First: “THIN IS IN” for packaging. The shipping box (full of two pairs of six foot speaker cables and two pairs of interconnects) was really light. Second: “THIN IS IN” for looks. Your Guerrilla cables look awesome – very high wife approval factor! Third: “THIN IS IN” for function. The craftsmanship of your cables is absolutely first rate; you clearly take great pride in your work. Not only are Guerrillas beautiful, they are totally flexible and can be routed exactly as I wish. Fourth: “THIN IS IN” for music. Guerrilla interconnects and speaker cables made my system really sing!! My system uses deHavilland 845G (30 WPC SET tube) monoblock amplifiers, VonSchwiekert VR 3.5 speakers, Sonic Euphoria “passive line controller,” and Musical Fidelity A5 CD player. I used your Guerrilla speaker cables to bi-wire (PPs to woofers & SEs to mid/tweeter) the VonSchwiekert VR 3.5s, and I used your Guerrilla interconnects to make all connections between the electronics. The sound is beautiful (not euphonic): very smooth presentation of mids and highs and very musical, well-controlled bass. With twisted pair copper speaker cables and copper coaxial interconnects, the sound was slow and lazy; the bass was tubby; vocals didn’t project or really sing out. Duh, that’s the reason that I called you, remember… For some reason, I don’t mind using a coaxial copper cable at the interface between amp and preamp, as that seems to lend a bit of weight / resonance / groove (not warmth) without slowing things down or mushing things up. So, at the moment I am all Guerrilla, but with copper coaxial cables between preamp and amps. I LIKE IT, VERY MUCH! Bottom Line: Your Guerrillas really do make beautiful, beautiful music. They are fast and musical. There is a life to the music that was being stifled by the (very good) copper speaker cables and interconnects that I was using. I remember asking you whether your Guerrillas would be bright. Did you even wish you were close enough to smack me upside the head?? This reminds me of the old debate about steel and aluminum bicycle frames. I believed in that for a long time, but it turned out that a well-executed aluminum frame can be every bit as smooth as a steel frame. Sounds like there is a similar myth about silver and harshness – you just need to find someone who knows what the heck they are doing with it… Back to listening, AJ Just letting you know how things are going with the silver RCA's so far.... I have given them about 150 hours of burn-in time total, and about 50 hours on my cd player at this point. They do seem to have "mellowed out" after about the first 50 hours or so, and the slight forwardness in the upper mids/lower highs I first heard has gone away completely. They are now a bit laid back actually, with well balanced sound from the highs all the way down to the lower midrange. The bass does nothing to call attention to itself. It is certainly the best sounding cable I have heard even close to it's price point, or at even three times it's price! I do not quite hear the details and uppermost extension of my Pure Note Ceruleans I have on hand here, but they are certainly a great sounding cable all around, and are steal at the price. I am going to give them a bit more time to see if they improve any more, and will let yuo know what happens. I will be sure to write a review of them on Audiogon for others to read, for I feel that they are something that others should know about-. It is a rarity to find a cable like this at the price point! Audiophiles are far too use to getting ripped off by the sonics offered by so many overpriced wires on the market. This is the first time I have felt like I got my money's worth from an interconnect! Keep up the good work Jason! I'll be in touch again soon- Eric I've been running the interconnects steady 24/7 since they arrived. I've A-B'd them against a few other IC's I've got including Kimber Silver Streak and Goertz TQ2 and the Guerrillas present a much more palpable sonic picture than both of the aforementioned. The Guerrilla's seem at ease with the entire sonic spectrum whereas the Kimbers struggle slightly with shrillness in the very top octaves in my setup,and the Goertz although sweeter on top than the Kimbers,simply don't carry the low end slam of the Guerillas. I have yet to perform a head to head with the Analysis Plus Silver Ovals due to time constraints. I look forward to listening to a lot of my audio collection in the near future with the Guerillas on board. Keep up the great work! Brett
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