Japanese cable brands
Inspired by a recent thread somewhere around here about brands from South Korea. I have always been fascinated by Japanese hifi gear. From vintage Sansui and Pioneer to more modern things like Esoteric DACs, TAD Labs speakers, everything from Luxman and Accuphase.
That got me thinking about cables. I've used some of the Esoteric Mexcel cables and loved them. I've always wanted to try Acrolink, and recently learned that they actually make all the Esoteric branded cables. Acoustic Revive has some very intriguing designs. I've heard great things about the cables offered by TAD Labs and just learned they are made by another Japanese brand called Tiglon. Turns out Tiglon is just now available in the US so I've got an inquiry in to try them out.
Anybody have experience with these or other high end cables from Japan? Availability seems to be the challenge for trying these out unless you live there. They seem to be extremely nice cables if you can get your hands on them.
Hello all, I’ve been using Mogami 3104 raw speaker cable for years to fabricate my speaker pipes. Mogami cable, both raw and pre-made have been the choice of many audiophiles and professionals for decades. The Mogami products are manufactured at the Mogami facility in Nagano, Japan. Their products can be sourced at many U.S dealers on-line and local audio outlets. Highly recommend! Enjoy the music. |
And here's the 聖HIJIRI Users thread on these fora. |
Just recently I bought a Japanese SoulNote Equalizer (had never heard of the brand before). SoulNote has its roots in Marantz high-end design team, and has the lofty ideal of becoming the world's best. Their chief designer's mantra focusses on the time domain rather than the frequency domain, because music is varying sound pressure in time. They currently offer just three cables. One is for clock signals. The others are an interconnect cable in two lengths. The interconnect cable is balanced and uses solid core copper in a foamed Teflon dielectric, and is unshielded. Different, but makes sense to me |
