Audiophilia – 2018 Products of the Year

Dear Fellow Audiophiles,

I am pleased to announce that this year Audiophilia has named our Level 3 Power Cordin their 2018 Products of the Year list. We are proud the be among a number of great products and would like to thank Anthony Kershaw of Audiophilia for this honor. 

In his review of our power cord, Anthony says…

“Introduction of three Level 3 Reference Series Power Cords into my system was quite a shock.”

“The music flowed, was rhythmically astute to each piece, and reminded me why I like my system so much.”

“Power cords can cost far more than the very reasonable Level 3s. So, considering the Anticables Level 3 Reference do what they do for $330, and come with a 30 day, risk-free trial, are beautifully made, a listen in your system is a no-brainer… these superb ancillaries will make a very musical difference.”

To read the full review, click here and here! I would once again like to personally thank Anthony Kershaw for his efforts. I am happy to hear he is enjoying his reference system more than ever.

When you are ready to take your music system to the next level, I invite you to give our Level 3 Power Cords a try. Most customers start with one, love what they hear, then come back for more. 

Paul Speltz
Founder, ANTICABLES

 

News from Capitol Audiofest! 🇺🇸

Dear Fellow Audiophiles,

We’re here at Capitol Audiofest here in Rockville, Maryland and have teamed up with some great companies in two different listening rooms.
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In Demo Room 512…

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In Demo Room 526…

CAF has one more day and we’ve already received some great press from Part-Time Audiophile.
Hope to see you at the show!
Paul Speltz
Founder, ANTICABLES

🌟 Best System at RMAF Under $60,000

Dear Fellow Audiophiles,

We’d love to share with you some of the great press we’ve received from our rooms at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and would like to thank all who attended for making it such a successful show.

Demo Room 3018

Click HERE to read more from The Audio Beatnik

Click HERE to read more from The Part-Time Audiophile

Demo Room 7021

Click HERE to read more from Audio Nirvana

Paul Speltz
Founder, ANTICABLES

Audiophilia Star Awarded to Power Cords

Dear Fellow Audiophiles,

We are thrilled to announce that our Level 3 Power Cord has won Audiophilia’s Star Component Award, and we invite you to stop in and hear them in rooms 578, 3018, and 7021 at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (October 5-7).

Anthony Kershaw, who is not only Audiophilia’s Editor & Publisher but is also one of Canada’s most respected classical conductors, wrote about his experience with our power cords in two parts. First with the introduction of three of them in his system as shown HERE. Then more recently in a follow-up article describing all of his reference system improvements, where he fleshes out his entire system with seven Level 3 Power Cords as shown HERE.


Anthony highly recommended them and stated in his first review:

“Introduction of three Level 3 Reference Series Power Cords into my system was quite a shock.”

“…now, the music flowed, was rhythmically astute to each piece, and reminded me why I like my system so much.”

“The perceived volume increase? I didn’t check with a dB meter, but the sound 
more fulsome, better resolved, with ample flesh on bone, felt louder and more substantial. In contrast, the stock cords robbed Peter and did not pay Paul. After listening to Speltz’ cords, it would be difficult to return to stock cabling.”  

The openness, with more musical information was my favorite Level 3 attribute.  …little details crept in from extremely well-known recordings. I could hear deeper into the recording and instruments and voices sounded fresher and more vibrant.” 

“Bass on my Raidhos does not shatter the listening room but is scary accurate down to below 50 Hz. My go-to bass and speed test is the theme from American Beauty by Thomas Newman. Heard hundreds of times in umpteen setups, I can tell you that the bass detail was the best I’ve heard on my system—exquisite Latin Percussion, marimbas and synthesized bass in a maelstrom of rhythmic complexity. From layered synthesized glissandi to various timbral changes in the very low bass to the echo in the drum cylinders, the AntiCables really shone light on ultra minor details. I kicked myself for not noticing them before on a track I felt I knew intimately.” 

“…considering the AntiCables Level 3 Reference do what they do for $330, and come with a 30 day, risk-free trial, are beautifully made, a listen in your system is a no-brainer.  …these superb ancillaries will make a very musical difference.” 

In the follow-up review, announcing “they are definitely an Audiophilia Star Component,” Anthony goes on to say:

“I replace all my power cords (a hodgepodge of Cardas, Audioquest, CorePower Technology, and stock) with his top of the line model. That’s seven AntiCables Level 3 Reference Series Power Cords if you’re counting.”

“The effect and cohesion of the seven power cords was immediate and quite remarkable.  …the effect was so clear, even a cloth-eared dolt could tell the difference.” 

“I had three AntiCables Level 3 power cords in my system for a few months (the other four were back ordered), but all the gear changes over the summer obviated any objective or even subjective data. But when the gear dust had settled and I introduced the extra four into the system, the effect of all the power cords was as if a clear, cool stream was made soundeven more refinement was added to the already glorious sound. Yes, glorious sound made better, somehow, and not psycho acousticallyIt was tangible.”

“The Level 3 Power Cords from AntiCables leverage your system gradually into another level. They are definitely Audiophilia Star Components.” 

I would like to personally thank Anthony Kershaw for his efforts, and I am happy to hear he is enjoying his reference system more than ever.

When you are ready to take your music system to the next level, I invite you to give our Level 3 Power Cords a try. Most customers start with one, love what they hear, then come back for more, which is why they are our number one selling product.

Paul Speltz
Founder, ANTICABLES

Mono Stereo Review

Dear Fellow Audiophiles,

Mono & Stereo’s Richard Weiner reviewed a full ANTICABLES loom in his reference system and declared them “the Goldilocks cables” because our Level 5 Speaker WiresLevel 6.2 RCA ICsand Level 3 Power Cords did everything “just right”.

About the most difficult sonic attribute to achieve with cabling is to provide very high resolution and detail, while keeping the music’s rich body. Typically warmth comes without resolution, and detail comes with no meat on its bones. Richard found that our ANTICABLES allows you to actually can have your cake and eat it too. ANTICABLES provides very high-resolution detail which allows you to not only to hear what each instrument sound like, but also the tactical information that conveys the musician playing the instrument, and does so while keeping the music full-bodied without any forwardness, brightness, or leanness.

Richard went on to say…

“ANTICABLES is both the most musically satisfying and the most sonically correct wire I’ve encountered.  It balances the sound envelope in a new way, one which is more faithful to the signal than any other I’ve encountered. Combining the ANTICABLES speaker wires, interconnects and power cords made my systems perform better than they have in twenty years.”

I know Richard was serious about this statement since he has now purchased the full ANTICABLES loom for his system.

“By patiently refining his designs, Paul Speltz has managed to combine the features we have all been seeking in our wires. Think of the rounded fullness of tube amplification matched with the controlled precision of solid state or the virtues of vented speaker enclosures combined with those of sealed boxes, and you have a sense of what ANTICABLES provide.  Add to these performance virtues the physical flexibility of the wires – no stiff garden hoses here, and the– by current standards – modest prices, and you have a line of irresistible products.”

“The difference with ANTICABLES lies in the sense of correct tone, of detail balanced with a musicality that made me nod: this is how the performances should sound.”

“Why has it taken until now to recover this natural perspective?”

Here are a few more excerpts from the review:

“My own comment from that first session is succinct: “Generous.”  Over the months of listening, I expanded that to “warmth without losing incisiveness,” and “precise but still harmonically rich.”  If you can imagine the clarity and speed of silver cable coupled with the relaxed tonality of copper, you will have a fair sense of what ANTICABLES  can do.  Now bring the harmonic rightness a bit further.  That is what gold in proper amounts brings to the mixture.”

“I tried Level 5 (Speaker Wires), switched to another multi-strand pure silver cable, a couple of high-purity copper wires – all of them well-known and all of them good performers – and returned to the ANTICABLES for their sense of relaxed and revealing sound.  ANTICABLES take somewhere around 150 hours to burn in.  My notes from the first couple of months reflect superior decay almost from the first hour, with good attack that became excellent over time.  This is the only cable product I have heard which offers this balance of sound.”

“Harry Pearson at The Absolute Sound introduced the concept of “continuousness,” the desirable property of music flowing naturally.  (At least, that was my interpretation of the concept.)  My experience with all of the ANTICABLES products is that they possess this characteristic: music doesn’t get bunched into discrete quanta.  The triumph of ANTICABLES is that it maintains continuousness while also preserving the delicate “space between the notes.”

 

“If I’ve managed to convey the sound of ANTICABLES loudspeaker cables, then you know what the Level 6.2 ABSOLUTE Signature interconnects sound like.  They’re smooth and revealing at the same time.”

 

 

 

With the Level 3 Power Cords plugged directly into the wall outlet Richard found…

“…the difference was pronounced: the very mild softening I’ve grown accustomed to was replaced by a more detailed, articulate sound that brought the music much closer to real life without ever stepping into hyper-etched rendition.”

 

“With a full loom of ANTICABLES wire in place, I ran through some favorites recordings.” “…I played the “Archduke” trio with Istomin, Stern and Rose (Sony  64513). Over the years, I have listened to this performance on vinyl, compact disc, and watched it on DVD. With ANTICABLES I experienced a greater sense of vitality, the sense of being present in the recording studio.”

“There’s a saying among engineers: anyone can design a great product for a million dollars, but only a genius can design one for a thousand bucks. In Paul Speltz, I believe that we have found an engineer who can provide top-level sound at an accessible price.”  

-Richard Weiner, Reviewer: Mono and Stereo 
Click HERE to read the entire review.

 

Paul Speltz
Founder, ANTICABLES