Jena cables

Thanks for the tip.

hi Guys, as jtinn said....i have only actually compared the Jena Labs Symphony speaker cable to the Transparent Opus MM in my system......as jtinn said the Opus was better but the Jena Labs was very good....probably as good as any other besides the Opus in my system.

i have had some Jena Labs interconnects briefly in my system some other times but not in a comparison situation. i have heard the various Jena Labs cables in jtinn's system and at CES and have always been impressed. the Jena Labs seems to be very neutral but also fast, extended and full-bodied.

generally i would guess that the Jena Labs might be preferrable to the Valhalla in many solid state amplified or digital sourced systems (note i said "many" not "all"). any lack of naturalness in the signal path will be completely revealed with the Valhalla to a higher degree than other cables i have heard.

the switchbox that Jennifer Crock made for me is a real sonic wonder and i am quite impressed with Jennifer's knowledge and expertise.

the Valhalla and Opus seem to "work" very synergistically in my particular system and i have no present "cable" agendas. i believe that not all systems can handle the brutal resolution that the Valhalla can dish out so i am not surprised that some other cables are preferred in other systems. in my opinion the natural clarity of the Kharma Exquisites and Tenor amps are fully realized with the Valhalla and Opus.

it is possible that in the near future some cable shoot-out might be arranged (just for fun) to compare the Valhalla, Jena Labs, and HMS.....but even if that happens it would only be in the context of one particular system....so YMMV.

I use Jena Labs Twin 19 speaker cables in my system and have compared them to several similarly priced cables. Unfortunately, while I have tried Nordost SPM reference cables, which I found thinner and not as extended in my system, I have not compared them to the Valhallas. To me, the Jena's have done the best of any cable I've tried in my system to this point (hardly exhaustive) --they are quick, extended, detailed without being overly so, deep and most importantly, natural sounding. Also, I noticed references to Jena Symphony speaker cables in a couple of places in this thread. This may be a new naming scheme, but I was under the impression that the entire line of speaker cables was Twin N where N is some number in {5, 7, 11, 15, 19}. I have not yet tried the Jena interconnects.

Just how good are the Jena's? After breaking them in, I sat my girlfriend down for a listen and she grundgingly offered that the system finally sounded amazing. That was worth the $4300 right there.

I'm amazed at the number of posts my question has elicited. Many thanks.