Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables

I contacted Bob yesterday via his email address and he responded within a couple of hours. I am going to buy a pair of his GE speaker cables and a pair of GE interconnects. I recently added graphene power cords and fuses from Synergistic Research and really like what I am hearing. I'm looking forward to adding more graphene products into my audio system. 

Charles,

I am indeed using the SR Black cables with the Frankensteins. I have only 35 hours on them. One thing is that the bass quality is much improved. It is really addicting to follow the bass line now. I will post a comment in the SR Black power cable thread later after I have 100 hours or so on them.

I have a pair of Ocellia interconnects that I am using between my Coincident preamp and dac. I plan on comparing the Cerious cables with the Ocellias, which might be of interest to you.

Tom

I received my Cerious Technology Graphene Extreme speaker cables and interconnects recently and now have about 50 hours on them. It took less than 2 weeks to make and deliver the cables. I was looking to replace my Audience AU24e speaker cables, which I really like, but I wanted to try something new. I also was seeking something besides my Coincident CST Extreme speaker cables (which were serving back up duty to the AU24e’s) and Coincident CST Extreme interconnects, both of which sounded a bit edgy to me. In addition, the aforementioned Coincident CST Extreme interconnects produce a narrow soundstage with smaller image sizes, which I wanted to improve upon. Based on my recent experience with other graphene based products, I had a hunch the CT GE’s would work for me. I was right! With that said, I thought I would leave a post here on my impressions on all of the graphene products that have been going into my audio system. (I recently posted my system here if anyone wants to see where my point of view is coming from).

First off, I have been adding Synergistic Research Black fuses and power cords for the past 3 months. The fuses have created a greater sense of presence, adding a wonderful sense of three dimensionality, which is one of my system goals. Music is also more clear and intelligible, but not harsh or edgy at all. The improvement is very noticeable.  I listened to my system with just the new fuses and my older cables and I swapped back and forth between the new and old fuses, to make sure the fuses themselves are what is making the difference. With the stock fuses, the sound is smeared and washed out. There’s no doubt, hearing is believing.

Adding SR Black power cords to my preamp, power amps, dac, and phono stage led to a subtler change. There is a greater sense of having a black background, leading to even more clarity and inner detail. But there was not much of an additional effect to width and depth of the soundstage. I confirmed this by swapping back my old power cords, which are JPS Labs AC+ cables. When re-inserting the AC+ cables, the size of the soundstage stayed relatively the same, but the music got just a little mucked up, slightly more smeared.  I concluded the SR Black graphene power cords are a worthwhile upgrade, and I bet the CT GE power cords would have a similar if not better effect.

The CT GE speaker cables are a similar improvement as the SR Black power cords. Compared to my Audience AU24e cables, they subtly add to the sense of blackness and clarity and to the sense of image specificity. Soundstage size is the same. They do not have any of the edginess of my Coincident speaker cables. These are very listenable. Now, I must admit, I did not break down my system and put all my old interconnects and fuses back in to gauge the speaker cables impact on my old baseline. That said, as they break in, I look forward to even better things ahead.  

Now for the CT GE interconnects. As background, I once had a full loom of Virtual Dynamics Master cables, and have tried almost every cable made by Cardas and JPS (except Aluminata). I currently have the aforementioned Coincident CST Extreme, Coincident CST (non-Extreme), Audio Sensibility Statement Silver, and Ocellia Silver Reference cables (ranked worst to best in my opinion). I tried the CT GE’s with my dac to preamp, and also with my disc spinner. I find these interconnects to be free of edge and glare. Even with all the other graphene products installed – the fuses, power cables, and speaker cables – i can tell the CT GE interconnects are a benefit to my audio system. The sense of blackness and separation of instruments, of placing images in more clearly defined spaces – all are much better. A pleasant surprise for me is that the blackness and image separation/specificity is clearly better than what I hear with my Ocellia cables. On the other hand, the Ocellias are more natural and organic. They sound more full bodied and harmonically rich, but a tad more diffused.  To be honest, at this point with the CT GE”s at 50 hours, I like the presentation of the Ocellias a little better. The Ocellias provide more of  a non-analytical, addictive quality to music listening for me. But as much as I really like them, I put them up for sale. The Ocellias are really nice and those of you that own them are fortunate to have them; I would have completed my system with them and not opened my eyes to Cerious Technologies if Ocellia’s prices were the same as they were 5-6 years ago. As it is, I am glad I found out about Cerious Technologies. Bob has been a great guy to deal with and is someone I am comfortable doing business with, so he will be getting an order for more cables from me soon. I might regret this, giving up such a great cable as the Ocellia, but the CT GE interconnects are very promising in my opinion and will only get better as more hours are put on them.

Another thing of note is that with all of these graphene products I find myself able to listen at much lower volume levels, typically 72-78db nowadays, versus the mid-80’s before all of the upgrades. Music still sounds full, impactful, and detailed at these lower listening levels.

These graphene products have been wonderful for my system. Definitely worth checking out, especially since both companies offer a money back guarantee if you don’t like their products.

Postscript, it’s been  a few more hours with the GE cables, and together they are sounding more real, natural, and organic. Very nice. Break-in: What a concept! 

Charles and bugredmachine, thank you. Also, thank you to Ozzy for starting this thread. I'm fascinated with how graphene can make a cost effective and audible difference to an audio system. First fuses and power cables, then speaker cables and interconnects. Each addition for me has had positive results. I'm picking up another fuse this week from my local dealer, which will complete my system as far as the fuses go. Hats off to Bob, too, for keeping the price reasonable. He will be making a 5 meter pair of xlr cables for me, which he explained is very labor intensive, but the price is still much less than I would have paid for premium cables elsewhere.

Thank you everyone! I have myself enjoyed reading what others think about the graphene products. A lot of experienced audiophiles have been reporting good results, so I had to try the graphene stuff myself. Glad I did!

I have 3 pairs of the GE rca ic's, and a digital rca cable. The rca connectors fit very tight on my gear. I found that if the rca's are not pushed all the way in, which is easy to happen, the soundstage flattens and images can be off centered. I had the flat soundstage when the rca's were not pushed all the way in.I was getting off centered imaging when the left cable was not fully inserted and the right one was correctly inserted. The left cable was something like a half millimeter, or less, in difference than the right cable. For me, it takes a very good amount of push to get the rca's to fit properly all the way in. They don't easily slip on and off like other cables. But I think that may be one of the reasons for the excellent sound, the very tight and secure connection of the rca's.