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| Particularly with rhythmically propulsive electronica like Haujobb’s "Metric" [Vertical Mixes], I had a feeling that the German Highend delivered more drive and energy. This had to do with defining very angular clear transients similar to the WSS yet giving me a cleaner reveal of sonic micro textures even on minutiae like scratches and decays.
By contrast to the competition, the soundstage also seemed to gain in lateral scale and dimensionality. This impression eluded heady mental assessment but kicked in each time that I relaxed and just followed a few cuts. Either way it was an involving trait I quickly came to appreciate. |
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With all of the above it’s apparent that for all its transparency and speed, the German Highend cable exhibited zero amusical blemishes of hardness or hissiness. Au contraire, the LGS belonged to the cleanest least ‘annoying’ cables I know. Obviously though it’s not a cable you’d use if you meant to warm up or tame systems that were too cool, bright or analytical. That’s particularly so—and I’d not mentioned this yet—because our cable from Hannover also plays it a tad lightweight or light-filled, hence with lower registers that were slimmer than the comparators’.
This added itself to the reasons why for my ears the LGS became the best match for the Spendor SP100R². When the silver cables took control, these 30cm woofer’d Brit monitors gained in more fleet-footed less gravity-bound bass.
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Conclusion: If you own a high-quality system and find yourself chasing down a speaker cable that delivers speed, transparency and precision, the German Highend LGS becomes a solution that steadfastly refuses to do one thing – go on your nerves. Accompanying its joie de vivre, immediacy, accentuation and transparency are relaxed airiness and freedom from harshness. This particular balance of qualities with such a treble I'd not heard bettered. Here I’m thinking that we might in fact look at a bona fide benchmark.
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As to provisos or potential side effects? To tame glassy, gritty or grainy systems, this type of cable would never be ideal regardless of how correct and clean it behaved. With this particular cable you’ll also want to factor in that the lower bands will come off a tad leaner than dead-on neutral. In short, it’ll not add pounds below the belt. If you meant to invigorate a slightly lazy or fat bass meanwhile… then this wire would be perfect.
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