The Stage lll Concepts cables are absolutely some of the best cables I have heard at any price. I am using Nordost SPM Reference at the source and Stage lll Concepts Emperors from pre to amp. I will purchase a pair of the Stage lll Monument to replace the SPM at some point in the future. The Monuments are the Top of the line models and while not cheap, they will surely embarress many competitors whose cables cost up to 4x as much. The Emperors come close to the performance of the SPM reference, they are amazing cables and not at all "bright" like the SPM can be in some systems. They do resolve almost as well as the SPM and provides gobs of layering and micro resolution of information contained within the recording.
They are hand drawn by the owner of the small company and are completely backed by him as well; one may even trade up cables for full credit towards a new pair. The silver used is hand-drawn and crafted into very high quality jackets, then terminated with top notch ends (Cardas, WBT maybe??, don't remember exactly) they are killer though and I can tell you they can hang with the best available commercial high-end cables, no problem. Everyone trusts the big names so much that sometimes a small hand engineered product like this can go unnoticed because of mass marketed hype b.s. cable companies, well these cables are no joke, they are just amazing.
(Though I mention the interconnects above, the speaker cables share the same virtues.)
Good luck,
Chris
They are hand drawn by the owner of the small company and are completely backed by him as well; one may even trade up cables for full credit towards a new pair. The silver used is hand-drawn and crafted into very high quality jackets, then terminated with top notch ends (Cardas, WBT maybe??, don't remember exactly) they are killer though and I can tell you they can hang with the best available commercial high-end cables, no problem. Everyone trusts the big names so much that sometimes a small hand engineered product like this can go unnoticed because of mass marketed hype b.s. cable companies, well these cables are no joke, they are just amazing.
(Though I mention the interconnects above, the speaker cables share the same virtues.)
Good luck,
Chris