I am the proud owner of the Empress speaker cables. They currently have about 75 hours on them in the breakin period and I have already sold my old cables.
Over the years I have had the following speaker cables in my system:
XLO Limited
Stealth UR
Purist Dominous or whatever
Siltech SQ188 or whatever--- not the top but second
Audio Metallurgy Gold Reference
Omega Mikro active copper
Omega Mikro active silver and copper
My ears and memory tell me that the Empress tops them all in overall performance.
In comparison to the shopping list of other cables that I have used the Empress are more detailed by a good margin, but not at the cost of being bright. Several of the above had about as much detail but were so bright I couldn't listen to the for long periods.
The Empress are very dynamic particularly from the midbass and up. None of my prior cables came close to the dynamics of this cable.
Imaging is excellent but the Omega Mikros were their equal in this area.
Bass from the Empress is solid, tight and extended. Not as extended as the Audio Metallurgy but much tighter than those cables. Not as dynamic as the Stealth in the lower bass but much more extended than those cables. The XLO cables perform as good as the Empress in the bass region but imho the only cables that I have tried that can match the Empress in overall bass performance.
I have not heard all of the speaker cables on the market as time and particularly my pocketbook won't allow it. However, without regard to price (and they are a bargain at their price) the Empress speaker cables are the best that I have heard.
Over the years I have had the following speaker cables in my system:
XLO Limited
Stealth UR
Purist Dominous or whatever
Siltech SQ188 or whatever--- not the top but second
Audio Metallurgy Gold Reference
Omega Mikro active copper
Omega Mikro active silver and copper
My ears and memory tell me that the Empress tops them all in overall performance.
In comparison to the shopping list of other cables that I have used the Empress are more detailed by a good margin, but not at the cost of being bright. Several of the above had about as much detail but were so bright I couldn't listen to the for long periods.
The Empress are very dynamic particularly from the midbass and up. None of my prior cables came close to the dynamics of this cable.
Imaging is excellent but the Omega Mikros were their equal in this area.
Bass from the Empress is solid, tight and extended. Not as extended as the Audio Metallurgy but much tighter than those cables. Not as dynamic as the Stealth in the lower bass but much more extended than those cables. The XLO cables perform as good as the Empress in the bass region but imho the only cables that I have tried that can match the Empress in overall bass performance.
I have not heard all of the speaker cables on the market as time and particularly my pocketbook won't allow it. However, without regard to price (and they are a bargain at their price) the Empress speaker cables are the best that I have heard.