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Summary:
I totaly agree whit the review of Hyperion very good review indeed. This cables are THE END.It makes you love the music more.I mean real music of real artists whit real emotions.I dont mean Madona,house or all the comercial stuf. It makes you love the music more! It makes you feel the music more! It makes you understand the music more! This cables Anvz and An-Spz need rely time to understand whit one thing i dont agree about this cables whit the other reviewers that they sound very well right out of the box.In my experience they sound to nothing out of the box just after 250 hours they start to shine.Than not erlier you start to have the feeling that this is something very special.And after that every hour you notice improvment. I use them since short whit Lamm L1 preamp and ML2 singelended mono blocks,wonderfull amps!The sound now after using them together the seventh day is unbelievabel.At the moment i am writing this review i am listening to it,i cant stop listening.I still cant believe how naturel,full of emotion,full bodied,wide,deep,very 3D,and relexed whit a peace and quetines the sound is that they create.At this moment i am not alone i listen to Chet Bakers CD Baby Breeze the song Born to be blue Chet is whit me now. Whit me in my room if Chet shoudt here this i am sure he woudt say: THIS IS GREAT MEN!

Strengths:
Are you joking.

Weaknesses:
I think you are joking again.

Similar Products Used:
Please stop joking.

Summary:
I have used many makes of cable in my audio life. Some have boxes, most of them thick, sone thin, some with different windings, braidings, some with air dielectric and some solid core.....etc.

Finally when a good friend sugested I tried the Audio Note AN-Vz cables. I was at first reluctant because I had bad experience with "silver cables" (bright sound) in the past.

After some thought and tongue biting, I purchased 2 pairs of demo AN-Vz cables from NY.

From the package, these cables were incredible.

First pair: CD player to preamp.

Highs were silky smooth with lots of extention (no whiteness), and bass like I have never heard before. Midrange was so liquid and so REAL you could hear the vocalist's lips move! Soundstage was deep and wide. Detail was amazing. I could hear things that I've never heard from a piece of music before. Every CD I put in the CD player sounded so different. The difference was so apparent that not much ABing with the old cable was required.

After two days I put in the second pair:

No surprise. I heard the same results as described above.

Unfortunately, I didn't have the $$$ to get the AN-SPz speaker cables BUT settled for the AN-SPx Cables instead.

The AN-SPx cables were brand new and they required lots of break-in time (at least 200hrs) before you hear anything!

Right out of the package they sounded great in all aspects except fot the HF. HF sounded blunt with no extention. It got slightly better after 50hrs. Bass was awesome for a cable this thin (better than cables 10 times the thickness). Midrange was lush and LIQUID.

I highly recommend these cables who wants to listen to MUSIC and they are going to be the last pairs of cables in MY system. Sounds so real it's scarry.

Strengths:
Liquidity, exceptional HF extention, excellent details, excellent bass with slam and tightness.

Weaknesses:
None that I can think of.

Summary:
Worth every penny.

Strengths:
Fantastic interconnect cables. Made HUGE dfference to my system (Pass Aleph 3 + Threshold T3 + Audio Note DAC3, Tannoy D-700 speakers). Previously I've been using Nordost Solar Wind cables. AN cabless so much better - clean highs, great transparency. Anybody can hear the difference, not only audiofiles.

Weaknesses:
Expensive.

Similar Products Used:
Nordost Solar Wind and Nordost Blue Heaven interconnect cables.

Summary:
It has been a very long time indeed since I posted here. I guess I finally have a system that takes me so far away everytime I hear it that I lost interest in audiophilia. Of course it was after years of searching and spending lots of money of various components that this happened. There was no shortcut, at least for me, but I wanted to thank the many people in this forum for all their insights and help. Especially Joe Sanders who turned me on to LAMM, and Hyperion to AudioNote Anz cables, for these components are the true keepers in my current system (though the other components are all fine).
My review of the LAMM m1.1 monoblocks is in the amplifier section, so anyone curious can go there. They are magnificent.

Later, though I was sceptical that the LAMM L1 preamp could offer any large improvement worth the money over my Pass aleph P, I tried one anyway. I have always thought that poweramps play a much larger role than pres, so when the Lamm m1.1 trounced the (still wonderful im my opinion) Pass Aleph 2's, I was not so surprised. But surely the pricey Lamm L1 pre would not offer such an improvement?

Wrong pretty much. The odd thing was that unlike the m1.1's, it is much harder to put your finger on what is so good about the L1. In a way then, it is even a superior component to the m1.1's because where the monoblocks thrill and caress you, the L1 just seems to dissapear. As I thought the Pass Aleph P did! But there are many depths to that word "dissapear" and the Lamm dissapears much more, chiefly in the department of texture. It sounds much more again like live music--compared to many components the Pass Aleph P sounds stunningly present and real, but plug the Lamm L1 in and another layer of "electronic distraction" is removed. So much that in fact you forget about the equipment. The Lamm L1 (until I hear better anyway) is the most unindulgent piece of audio equipment I know of. And though it does not *zing* you at first, it has the amazing effect of making you forget about it. It makes the whole experience of listening quite different. I do not exaggerate--please try if for yourself. Whether or not it will have this effect partnered to non-Lamm amps I do not know. And it is expensive too, but since I have had it I've had no desire to listen to new equipment anymore.

Well, there is one more catch till my satisfaction came, that was the Audio Note An cables which Hyperion kept ranting on about and wrote a long review of in the cables section. Since he lauded their aplomb with classical music, and I am primarily a classic and ancient music fan, I tried some out. The suprising thing is, is that Hyperion's gushing review is true! He gushes, but his observations are very accurate and spot on. This is the casmere of cables--music is clothed in such beauty and sweetness, yet with tremendous transparency and effacing neutrality. "Lord this sounds so right!" these cables make you shout. Best of all, when I first put them in I was working around the apartment and kept being drawn back into the listening room. These cables make you want to listen--they capture some level of ambience (Hyperion calls it harmonic decay) that sounds like real live music. The overprecise (and initially impressive) soundstaging that most fine cables offer is gone here, replaced with something only describable as organic. And when you go to the concert hall you affirm, yes that organicness is how it sounds. These cables have that quality in spades, and though the lack of giant bass offered by such cables as transparent reference, Nordost, or on a subtler scale my previous Nirvana's may seem a fault at first, you soon realize that the huge and impressive bass is coming at the cost of obscuring depth and solidity. You feel like you are listening down to the center of the earth with the audio note cables (at least with LAMM amps which are champs in the depth category). Hyperion is also right that they do sound slightly soft up top, possibly rolled off, but the overall effect is nothing less than pure enchantment.

So combined with the L1 and my previous system Lamm m1.1, Wilson Benesch Act One speakers, Denon D1 transport and Mccormakc dna DAC, and a nice Magnan ref power cable/conditioner (highly recommended) I have forgot all about audio, audio discussion forums, magazines, shows etc. I don't know if that's good or bad, but it certainly is saving me lots of money. As Hyperion said of the An cables, though it applies to my system as a whole now, "it inhibits audiophile Nervosa and exponentially increases listening sessions"

So thanks again to all who helped me on my search, and of course I recommend you try out some of the products in my system, especially the Lamm and Audionote cables. Although the other components are fine they still are on "this side of the river" Somehow the Lamm and Audionote have crossed over to the lonely other side.

Summary:
Hey, I gave them 5 stars! What gives?