There have been a lot of slings and arrows at these. Some have made outrageous claims that it's pure snake oil. Let me tell you my story.
I had just met Ted Denney over breakfast with my friend who's a distributor of Synergistic. I didn't know who Ted was, but he sure knew a lot about hi-fi. He then revealed who he was and then what he was working on. Cables companies to me at the time had seemed to meet a dead end in a way. All the companies could do is try different dielectric(SP) or purities of cable, etc.
Ted then invited me to the office for a demonstration of the new cable.
First, the listening room. Coming from the Brooks Berdan school of set-up to the Ted Denney is two different schools of thought.
Brooks is diffused and dampened, while Ted is resonance controlled-wide open. I assumed the worst. I thought, "Great, yet another hi-fi guy who has no idea of set-up or resolution detail extraction." BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
The music seemed to create itself from all the areas of the room without ANY indication leading up to it. It was all a surprise almost. As I listened to a very complex piano concerto of Ginastera (Naxos), I finally could hear the way this was recorded. That is, 2 mics from the ceiling pointed x/y toward the stage. IT FELT AS IF I WAS SITTING IN THE HALL ALMOST! The piano was low front and center, the respective strings (violins, violas, cellos) were right behind it IN A SEMI-CIRCLE (yes, I could hear the shape!) the percussion in the VERY back, etc...I was amazed.
"Let me show what we do to make this possible." We go into another room and Ted grabs a random set of cables on a burn machine. "Here's a real before and after." He puts the cables in the place of what was there before. We listen. It sounds like a nice cable BUT ALL THE MAGIC IS GONE! Nice timberal balance, maybe a bit muddy in the mid-bass, SMALL 2 DIMENSIONAL SOUNDSTAGE. "Here's what makes it happen." He attaches it to a stand, then to a ground poll (yes, like a lighting ground!) Then he fires up the TESLA COIL and SHOCKS THE CABLE WITH 2,000,000 VOLTS! Now, the custom made Tesla coil has an ability to deliver this without all of the amperage (if my memory serves) so the cable won't catch fire! Then, we take the same cable, no switcheroo, no funny gadgets, and put it back into the system. BAM, IT'S ALL BACK! THE 3-D SOUND STAGE, THE REAL TIMBERAL BALANCE. I was so mad that I had to go play a gig that night. I wanted to stay. I felt like I was learning about hi-fi all over again.
Let me tell what I know is happening here: it's a MOLECULAR BURN-IN! Think about it...metal conducts electricity/heat and it's being fed 2,000,000 volts of both, with amperage control. That cable is seeing again what it was created from: energy. Not millivolts either, 2,000,000 VOLTS! The metals can bond molecularly again. In fact, I'm curious what it would look like under a microscope.
Folks, that takes courage to have an idea as far fetched and INVEST in it enough to see it through. I like that. Whether you like the end result or not, creativity like that deserves RESPECT.
Well, a little time passed and I managed to squeak a loaner out of my distributor friend of Tesla Accelerator. Folks, JUST ONE CABLE FROM THE SOURCE TO THE PRE GAVE ME MOST OF THE EFFECT OF THE 3-D SOUNDSTAGE AND TIMBERAL BALANCE. I ALSO WAS HEARING TRUE DYNAMICS. THE MUSIC SEAMED TO GO FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM WITH NO EXTRA NOISE OR "SPOILING", THAT IS, THE MUSIC WAS A SURPRISE AGAIN. I can't say enough about this stuff. I've had most cables, I've had a lot of gear. I'm in the business and not much but the REAL GEAR impresses me. This is a TECHNICAL INNOVATION in cable as no one has truly reached this point other than Ted. Folks, it's not a subtle thing in a highly resolute system. It's something that I would challenge ANY STAUNCH ENGINEER WHO SWEARS UP AND DOWN CABLE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT TO LISTEN WITH THEIR DOUBLE BLIND (OR BETTER YET HOW ABOUT A CD PLAYER WITH 2 IDENTICAL OUTPUTS ON A LINE STAGE, A/B'D, NO SACRIFICE OF SOME MAKESHIFT SWITCHING NETWORK) TEST AND TELL ME THEY CAN'T HEAR IT. This isn't snake oil voodoo...And yes, I'm RE-CABLING my entire system with it.
All the best,
jason
I had just met Ted Denney over breakfast with my friend who's a distributor of Synergistic. I didn't know who Ted was, but he sure knew a lot about hi-fi. He then revealed who he was and then what he was working on. Cables companies to me at the time had seemed to meet a dead end in a way. All the companies could do is try different dielectric(SP) or purities of cable, etc.
Ted then invited me to the office for a demonstration of the new cable.
First, the listening room. Coming from the Brooks Berdan school of set-up to the Ted Denney is two different schools of thought.
Brooks is diffused and dampened, while Ted is resonance controlled-wide open. I assumed the worst. I thought, "Great, yet another hi-fi guy who has no idea of set-up or resolution detail extraction." BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
The music seemed to create itself from all the areas of the room without ANY indication leading up to it. It was all a surprise almost. As I listened to a very complex piano concerto of Ginastera (Naxos), I finally could hear the way this was recorded. That is, 2 mics from the ceiling pointed x/y toward the stage. IT FELT AS IF I WAS SITTING IN THE HALL ALMOST! The piano was low front and center, the respective strings (violins, violas, cellos) were right behind it IN A SEMI-CIRCLE (yes, I could hear the shape!) the percussion in the VERY back, etc...I was amazed.
"Let me show what we do to make this possible." We go into another room and Ted grabs a random set of cables on a burn machine. "Here's a real before and after." He puts the cables in the place of what was there before. We listen. It sounds like a nice cable BUT ALL THE MAGIC IS GONE! Nice timberal balance, maybe a bit muddy in the mid-bass, SMALL 2 DIMENSIONAL SOUNDSTAGE. "Here's what makes it happen." He attaches it to a stand, then to a ground poll (yes, like a lighting ground!) Then he fires up the TESLA COIL and SHOCKS THE CABLE WITH 2,000,000 VOLTS! Now, the custom made Tesla coil has an ability to deliver this without all of the amperage (if my memory serves) so the cable won't catch fire! Then, we take the same cable, no switcheroo, no funny gadgets, and put it back into the system. BAM, IT'S ALL BACK! THE 3-D SOUND STAGE, THE REAL TIMBERAL BALANCE. I was so mad that I had to go play a gig that night. I wanted to stay. I felt like I was learning about hi-fi all over again.
Let me tell what I know is happening here: it's a MOLECULAR BURN-IN! Think about it...metal conducts electricity/heat and it's being fed 2,000,000 volts of both, with amperage control. That cable is seeing again what it was created from: energy. Not millivolts either, 2,000,000 VOLTS! The metals can bond molecularly again. In fact, I'm curious what it would look like under a microscope.
Folks, that takes courage to have an idea as far fetched and INVEST in it enough to see it through. I like that. Whether you like the end result or not, creativity like that deserves RESPECT.
Well, a little time passed and I managed to squeak a loaner out of my distributor friend of Tesla Accelerator. Folks, JUST ONE CABLE FROM THE SOURCE TO THE PRE GAVE ME MOST OF THE EFFECT OF THE 3-D SOUNDSTAGE AND TIMBERAL BALANCE. I ALSO WAS HEARING TRUE DYNAMICS. THE MUSIC SEAMED TO GO FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM WITH NO EXTRA NOISE OR "SPOILING", THAT IS, THE MUSIC WAS A SURPRISE AGAIN. I can't say enough about this stuff. I've had most cables, I've had a lot of gear. I'm in the business and not much but the REAL GEAR impresses me. This is a TECHNICAL INNOVATION in cable as no one has truly reached this point other than Ted. Folks, it's not a subtle thing in a highly resolute system. It's something that I would challenge ANY STAUNCH ENGINEER WHO SWEARS UP AND DOWN CABLE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT TO LISTEN WITH THEIR DOUBLE BLIND (OR BETTER YET HOW ABOUT A CD PLAYER WITH 2 IDENTICAL OUTPUTS ON A LINE STAGE, A/B'D, NO SACRIFICE OF SOME MAKESHIFT SWITCHING NETWORK) TEST AND TELL ME THEY CAN'T HEAR IT. This isn't snake oil voodoo...And yes, I'm RE-CABLING my entire system with it.
All the best,
jason