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Kable Evolution With Kimber Kable
Rewind to the early 1970s. We had no audiophile cables. Let’s start this conversation with speaker cables. We ran 16AWG and that was THAT. I remember talking to Bill Johnson of ARC in my shop in 1977. He was of the opinion that 16AWG was better than 14AWG, because 14AWG sounded more muddled. Bigger Wire Robert Fulton was an early proponent of…
Dave’s Faves – Kimber Kable Hero Interconnects
Kimber Kable, Hero Interconnects, Ultraplate RCAs or XLRs .5m $253, 1m $318, 1.5m $383, 2m $448 Kimber makes cables from modest to esoteric. The sweet spot for most of our customers is the iconic Kimber Hero. It is used in some of the highest end systems going, yet is still reasonably priced. Hero consists of a four wire, Varistrand, braided geometry, interlink…
Dave’s Faves – Kimber Kable Carbon Speaker Cable
Carbon Speaker Cables Carbon 8: 1m $1100pr, 2m $1320pr, 3m $1760pr, 4m $2200pr, 5m $2640pr Carbon 16: 1m $1640pr, 2m $2520pr, 3m $3400pr, 4m $4280pr, 5m $5160pr Carbon 18XL: 1m $3140pr, 2m $4300pr, 3m $5460pr, 4m $6620pr, 5m $7780pr Kimber recently introduced my favorite interconnect cable for the money, the Kimber Carbon.While more than entry level coin ($510 .5m) the Carbon performs…
Dave’s Faves – Kimber Kable Carbon Interconnect
Kimber Kable Carbon Interconnect .5m $558, 1m $668, 2m $888 Brand new, and performance breaking for me, is the Kimber Carbon Interconnect cable. For its price point, Carbon shatters the glass ceiling of dynamic range performance most noticeably! It sounds like you added more power to your system, which you did NOT. Along with improved dynamic range, you’ll hear deeper, tauter bass…
Dave’s Faves – Kimber Kable 8 Pair
Kimber Kable 8 Pair Speaker Cable Two 10′ Runs with bananas or spades, $432. $21 per foot plus terminations Speaker cable matters. The more revealing your system is, the more it matters. If you have a garden variety receiver with garden variety speakers, zip cord is fine. That gear is like a dusty window that won’t let you see CLEARLY- what’s on…
Speaker Kable & The Point Of Diminishing Returns
Opinions?! Audiophiles get quite opinionated about speaker cable. Or if you buy Kimber Kable, as we recommend, use the K in kable. Fat or Thin? Let’s cover a little history first. In the 70’s the topic of thick cable was new. Companies like Fulton, Levinson and Monster said- the bigger the better. Bill Johnson of ARC said that fat wire sounds too…