Never short of good ideas for improving the quality of its products, French manufacturer Hi-Fi Câbles & Cie has equipped its JCT Supply One power cord with new plugs. The result: even better! That’s definitely worth a little article…


Never short of good ideas for improving the quality of its products, French manufacturer Hi-Fi Câbles & Cie has equipped its JCT Supply One power cord with new plugs. The result: even better! That’s definitely worth a little article…

If you think that an Ethernet cable is just a conductor of «0»s and «1»s, you may be mistaken. In that case, the monumental Reiki Jundostream Reference cable will show you that it can literally transcend your listening experience.

Already described with the Beta series (Vumètre 44), the 9th generation of Esprit cables continues to take listeners into the realms of ultra-high fidelity, starting with the polarised Eterna range. Above this, the Aura range further develops the substance and precision of the sound elements, adding above all an impressive notion of presence, notably with the Esprit Aura G9. Thanks to this, the music takes centre stage in the listening room, as demonstrated by the contribution of both loudspeaker cables and interconnect cables on a system.

With over 20 years’ experience behind it, Richard Cesari continues to develop its Esprit cable ranges with the recent arrival of the Esprit Beta G9 series. This 9th generation is even more advanced than its predecessor, particularly in terms of noise and interference reduction, for ever more developed musicality and ever more realistic sound reproduction, as already demonstrated by the brand’s second line, called Beta.

In our last issue, we gave you a sneak preview of the new generation of Absolue Creations cables. A far cry from the usual performance delivered by the big names in the market, we're very pleasantly impressed by the naturalness of the new Absolue Creations Tim Power...

Finding a good interconnect cable is no problem. However, at under two hundred euros, it’s much rarer. We’ve unearthed this little made-in-Germany marvel at a price that has absolutely no impact on your budget. Welcome the Viablue NF-A7 RCA.

The quality of our listening protocols led Nordost to offer to let us test a complete Heimdall 2 power cable, a Frey 2 power cable and a Qbase 8 mkIII power strip for several months. As one of our main systems already had exactly these components, along with a Qbase 8...

With the rise of streaming and dematerialised sources, the Ethernet network is becoming a conveyor belt for audio content in its own right. Offering a higher and, above all, more stable data rate than Wi-Fi, it is even the preferred medium for the transit of...

A year after the Tim Power 1, here comes its big sister, the Absolue Creations Tim Power 2. More ambitious, it looks almost identical. But you know what they say: the real beauty is on the inside! We tested the first model of the French manufacturer's power strip just...