Ok will start this by saying I am
a long time cable skeptic. Not in the sense that I thought they would do
nothing but that the expensive cables would simply color the sound in a way
some or most would find pleasing rather than automatically make it better. I
have always thought that expensive power cables were a crock! I mean how
couldn’t they be right? They are bringing the power 3 ft from the outlet to the
component. Well I have been proven wrong. Take this for what you will as I have
no incentive to lie or sugar coat. I am actually reluctantly sending the cables
back from a trial. Not because they didn’t make a difference, they most
certainly did. It’s the fact I don’t really have the disposable income at the
moment to purchase them.
Enter the Moneoone Nova
power cable and XLR cables. Immediately upon putting these in my system there
was noticed or I guess unnoticed a complete lack of glare. I expected to hear
no change or some frequencies boosted etc but this was not the case. I found
myself playing my system about 10db louder than usual with no fatigue. This was
absolutely not subtle. Improvements were all over the spectrum from lows to
highs. I have to say the highs were the biggest improvement. Cymbals in
particular were brought to a different level. I am a long time rock/metal guy
although I listen to just about everything. This is just one example: Clutch is
one of my favorite bands but I would never play them. Cymbals were just this
splashy mess most of the time and it would just ruin the experience. I can put
on my old Clutch albums now and I’m not going to lie that they sound like
audiophile recordings but do in fact sound MORE than listenable. Same
thing for more radio rock (Offspring) type stuff to Slayer. It’s pretty crazy really the difference. Yes I have taken
these cables out of the system and put the old stuff back in to verify my
results and it is striking. It’s like they take out all this hash I didn’t know
was there and just cleaned it all up from top to bottom.
I have no idea what kind of
filtering or whatever is going on here but it’s there and it’s obvious. All I
know is these cables in my system in my room are transformative. My next
upgrade will not be a component but will be cables, a little bit at a time.
These are on the top of my list when I’m able to buy. It really pains me to
send them back!
