Black Cat Cable's/Coppertone wires are amazing good!


I had recently borrowed from Mike Kay (Audio Archon), who is a retailer of Black Cat Cables, a full loom of the entry level Coppertone IC's and speaker wire.  The Coppertone IC's retail for $200 a pair and a ten foot run of the speaker wire costs $350.  Damn reasonable, indeed.  The materials and quality of build is as good as any cable I have had in my house for review, regardless of cost.  If you want all the details regarding the theory behind these wires you can go to the Black Cat Cable website and read the four superlative reviews on the Coppertone model.

The first aspect that strike me was the beauty of this cable at producing beautiful timbres and colors in the tonality of different instruments.  Next, was a vanishing noise floor that allowed the smallest micro-details to be clearly heard. The Coppertone loom was very balanced throughout all frequencies with an excellent airy top end and a taut/accurate bottom end. Sound-staging was excellent in height/width/depth and layering/placement of individual instruments was precise in this acoustic space.

Finally, the Coppertone cables took my whole system's ability to render a sense of relaxation/ease without out losing any speed, micro-dynamics, or punch was at a higher level then compared to my reference cables.  I have always had a very high level of liquidity in my system.  However, these wires are not just "silky" in their overall presentation, but allowed me to relax into the music and connect with it in an emotional manner that was quite delightful.

Please remember the Coppertone cables are not just good for the money, but are reference level performers that compete with cables that are dramatically more expensive. 



  

 
teajay

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I have pretty much a complete Black Cat Cable loom in both of my systems and yes they are very good.  I too play in the shallow end with the copper cables such as The Tube and the 3200 series.  

I do find it funny that Teajay gives Coppertone a rave review while his new boss Srajan said he didn't have a system low budget enough to use Coppertone.  
I don't own Coppertones but I have a full loom of Black Cat copper cables in both systems:

Redlevel Coeur speaker cables
The Tube! interconnects
3202 interconnects
3232 speaker cables

I don't see any of these models any more in the lineup since Chris has relocated back to the USA, but they are all copper.  If I had to start over again I would go with Coppertone.  I also use one his old Stereolab Master Reference digital cables.  

I don't think about cables any more since I bought them.  If Chris made a power cable I'd probably buy that too.
The reason I said I would go with Coppertone if starting over is that the first Black Cat cables I bought from Chris was the Redlevel Couer speaker cables, which was his entry level speaker cable at the time.  Those cables are still in a system that gets played every day and I have no desire to swap them out. 

I do have 3202 speaker cables that I use in my other system.  Honestly I don't hear a lot of difference between the 3202 and the Couers, which I'm guessing are similar in construction to Coppertones.