Verastarr-Grand Illusion


Does anyone own or use Verastarr Grand Illusion Speaker cables.
Or ,does anyone have experience with them .
I know that they are all copper, but cannot find a lot of reviews on them.
grey9hound

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Thanks for the replies.
I guess i'll find out as i have ordered the Grand Illusion (All copper) speaker cables .
I just hope that they are not too fast and or lean and Sizzley 
I have the Tekton Double Impact speakers
I am currently using Voodoo Audio Reference speaker cables , which is silver coated copper .They are very fast and revealing , great dynamics , but can be a little sizzling in the upper mids. This could be in part , due to  the Rogue ..??
I am also using a Rogue Audio St-100 with 1960s Telefunken ribbed plates. The output tubes are KT120s

McIntosh Mx151 with Lyngdorf Room Correction (the best room correction i have ever heard.) 
I still have PAD HDMI from my JRiver PC to the MX151.
Pad Dominus Fluid on the Mx151 and The Rogue Audio St-100.
Pad Dominus Fluid XLR from MX151 to Rogue.
I sold my Pad Dominus Fluid speaker cables and bought the Tekton Double Impact speakers with the money. I had the Voodoo Audio cables for a while.
They were ok with the Warm 2268 speakers , but they are too hot and sizzly with the Tekton
Wow .The Verastarr Grand Illusion Speaker cables that i got from Mike Powell @ Verastarr, are Fantastic.I had a slight brightness problem before i ordered them.I was using Voodoo Audio Reference Speaker cables and thought that was the problem, turns out it was a setting in my MX151 .
I am also using the Rogue Audio ST-100 amp.I found that the combination of settings and a switch to the Mullard 1950s long plates 12AX7 tubes worked wonders.
I was ready to blame the cables, and even called Mike Powell and told him about my issue.and that I wasn’t sure about his Grand Illusion cables, But BOY I was wrong!!. He was patient with me about the whole situation.
I think he pretty much new it was not his cables causing the issue.
I actually had the voicing set to Movies and not Music on the MX151...big mistake.
After I made adjustments (Mx151) and rolled tubes I have Killer Bass with great Detail and liquid Midrange.

The Grand Illusion Speaker Cables are helping with all of this.
It was definitely not the Grand Illusion, They are fabulous...some of the best that i have heard.
Thanks Mike Powell