PREOWNED - Kimber Kable Select HS2416 USB Cable, Cu, 1.5M

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"The performance of the cable is excellent in several important ways. First, it’s extremely good at soundstage resolution, presenting a large, open, and particularly deep image on all kinds of music. It doesn’t matter how complex or how simple the sound is; it works exceptionally well and teases out a fine soundstage from the recording. This also has the advantage of being approximately the right size; no artificially enhanced ‘attack of the 50ft singer’ moments unless the recording overstated the image to begin with. This works extremely well with orchestral recordings, which get a sense of layering and spacing that sometimes seems to get lost in the handover from Compact Disc to hard disk. You feel a very real sense of sitting in front of a live orchestra here.

"The cable is also good at resolving detail and dynamic range, without placing emphasis on particular frequencies or exaggerating micro or macrodynamics. If there is a shortcoming, it’s perhaps not the most immediate and rhythmic of portrayals, but these are not major quibbles, more minor observations and I would rather have this balance than a rhythmically tight but too bright or forward cable.

"If I could sum up the Kimber Select KS2416 CU in a single word, that word would be ‘balance’, which is what makes it a fine cable to sit and listen to for hours on end. Highly recommended." - HiFi+