Price, Everything mentioned above.

none.

Great interconnects, which create a coherent natural soundstage, with plenty of definition, detail, depth and width. Very well balanced sound.

Customer Service

Great!

Similar Products Used:

TMC Gold Lable Reference speaker cables, Tara labs spectrum 2a

Low cost cable that offers 90-95% performance of cables costing 5 times as much.

A little stiff, but they bend and hold thier shape easily. The locking RCA are a little big; just remember clockwise to loosen & counter clockwise to tighten and give them a 2nd push in.

Absolutely incredable to get an IC at this price that performs this well. Reminds me of the older JPS Superconducter+. Highly reommended! A true bargain!
( See my review for TMC Gold speaker cable as that description applies for these)

Customer Service

Excellent

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More expensive: Virtual Dynamic Master, Stealth Gold PGS, JPS, Poiema, Audience
The VD & Stealth are definately better, but not by too much.

price

TOO TOO stiff! Muffled overly warm sound. Soundstage not so good compared to IC's costing $40 more.

i bought these to replace my tara Labs ref Gen II cables. With all of the hype and testimonials on their web site, I HAD to try them, and the price was right. I recieved them in only 4 days from Australia. FAST! BUt When I took them out, they were super stiff. Like a coat hanger! the connecters were cheap, and the little rubber band color coders were falling off. Anyway, I hooked them up and let them burn in by playing my CDP 24 hours a day for a week straight! All of the sudden my Sonus faber Guarneri's sounded muffled. Like a blanket was over them. My wife said the speakers sounded worse than her car stereo! I did not even think to change the cables, as the speakers were only here for 2 weeks prior. Anyway, today I switche dout cables to Homegrown Audio Silver lace and my speakers came to life. The TMC cables made my $25k system sound BAD. I emailed them to get a return authorization and explained why I wanted a refund. I was sent a replay a day later telling me they are not too stiff, and I need to play them for a couple weeks to burn in. I had to email a 2nd time to get the return instructions. these are NOT a bad IC. For the money, they are hard very good and beat Monster hands down.

Similar Products Used:

Tara Labs Homegrown Audio Silver lace (GREAT IC's) monster cable

Tonality perfect,Rythym and Dynamics great.Above all a huge Soundstage and Imaging is great.Shut your eyes and the artist is in your room.

None that I can really glean.

These cables are the nicest balance I have ever heard.They excel in soundstage. They sound simply huge in a large room with floorstanders.King was good to deal with and the improvement over my Monster M550i is huge.Tonally,rythmically,dynamically and balance are all outstanding but still you notice silence and smoothness also. I think they just let the signal through with minimum interference and that is the secret.

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Monster M550i,QED Qnex 2,Sonic Link Silver Pink also very good but nowhere near as BIG sounding or full in the Bass.

Clean and very well balanced

Not as detailed as silver plated and silver interconnets; loose rca; too stiff

This is a good starter. Clean and very well balanced from top to bottom. Open and neutral. I even prefer it to the TMC Yellow wich is warmer, but less detailed. A good value, but not the best value. The similar priced DH LABS BL1 series II is a bit better (more detailed, more revealing, bigger soundstage).

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Audioquest, Bryston, Belden, Cardas, Dh labs, Homegrown, Isoda, Kimber, Qued, Monster, MIT, Pure Silver Sound, Silver Audio, Transparent and few others

Everything

I am submitting simultaneously the same review on the Yellow Label Cables, which are very similar, maybe, just a touch warmer. I agree with other reviewers that these are most remarkable in all respects (including unbelivable price at this point). I just wish to add here that I was simply struck by how the soundstage (and focus) improved in my system. It not only made (all) the walls disappear, but somehow it extended towards the listening position, adding this wonderful feeling of involvement.

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Synergistic, AQ, qed

Musical, build/appearance, musical, price, musical..

You forget you have a TV, tendancy to skip dinner and just listen to the music

Ok, here it goes- I'm in love with this cable. In fact I'm giddy about it. I can't say how surprised I was in the difference in sound I got from this cable- immediately. The Hyacinth is a terrific cable but there is one big differnce between the Hyacinth and the TMC and that is the TMC is just down-right musical- it's true to it's name. This cable just knows how to deliver the music, it's that simple, somehow it knows what to give the listener and the end result has you listening to your CD's like you never have before.

With the Hyacinth you can sit there and say yes the bass is tight, the mids are smooth and the highs are focused, there is detail there is transparency, so on and so on, and for some people that may be enough. The TMC takes all the important elements of sound reproduced and just takes it to another level, the one that gets your foot tapping, that is the difference.

Their web site gives a warning: listening to music with our cables can be addictive. The first time a read it I thought to myself very clever, after experiencing their product I realize these good people are simply letting us know- believe it! What has a lot to do with this is that all music(jazz, rock, classical.. etc) is non-fatiguing over brisk or long periods of time with these cables, and playing at higher volumes is actually beckoned upon the listener, it's amazing and refreshing!

Bottom line- this cable makes me proud of my modest system! I recommend this cable to all who love music!

Similar Products Used:

Monster M1000i, Silver Audio Hyacinth

Sound, build quality, price.

Stiff and balky to work with.

I was ready to purchase the Harmonic Technology Pro Silway II until I heard the Music Cable. This has clarity, detailing, dynamics, soundstaging and accurate, fast bass. It is tonally accurate and has a listen through quality that I was not getiing with anything else I had auditioned. The Music Cable makes the Harmonic Technology sound constricted, like a filter.

The intrinsic difficulty in reviewing interconnects is the fact that not all systems react the same and that no one has time to listen to them all. After all, some need in excess of a hundred hours to burn in. I tend to believe that the neutrality of the Music Cable would work well with any system not in need of a particular coloration to offset a problem elsewhere in the system. Of course, anything that sounds this good in my system I want to believe will work anywhere.

There are two Music Cables, the White Label and the Yellow Lable. The sound is similar. Interestingly, the less expensive White Label is suggested for connecting input devices (such as CD players)to the preamp while the more expensive Yellow Lable is reccomended for longer runs to ampilifiers. The differance between the two is that the Yellow is a touch warmer sounding and seems not to be as detailed or image quite as precisely as the White Label. My suggestion would be to use the White Label unless you need a longer run to an amplifier or unless your system tends to the bright side of neutral. The White Label is very revealing.

I have not listened to the more expensive offerings out there. I can only report from my sampling that the Music Cable is much, much better in every regard than anything else that I have auditioned. Some of the others did some things well, but other things not so well. I cannot fault the Music Cable sonically at all. It improved my system greatly.

The Music Cable is stiff and will, therefore, not be a delight to work with in confined spaces. The good news is that it comes with very good locking RCA's so that once in place it ought to stay there. In my experience it takes about 50 hours of burn-in before it becomes addictive. Of course, a large part of the burnin process may be psychoacoustic as your brain trains your ears to hear a differant presentation and tonal balance. However, in my experience, adapting to new equipment usually means that after the initial honeymoon, the shortcomings of the product become appearant. My experience with the Music Cable has been that the longer I listen, the more I am rewarded.

The Music Cable does not have a high powered advertising staff generating technobabble copy to explain why this cable is the only one in the universe to buy. Right now they are promoting it through auctions. The price of the winning bids keeps going up. They also run specials and welcome auditions. The only reason not to be the first on your block to try the Music Cable from Australia is because it is so inexpensive that you cannot believe that it can be as great as it is. These cables are a joy.

My System:

Meyers HD-1 active loudspeakers
Musical Fidelity P-100 preamp
Musical Fidelity X-RAY CD Player
Hsu Research 1220HO subwoofers (pair)
P.S. Audio Power Plants and Lab Cables

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D.H. Labs Siver Sonic, D.H. Labs Silver Pulse, Goertz Alpha Core Saphire and Micro Purl, Harmonic Technology Pro Silway II

Neutal, Detailed and Un-colored, great vendor to deal with, quick delivery considering they are in Austrailia!

Stiff and hard to route in tight space

When I set out on this project of assembling my first system in 20 years, I was looking for a financial compromise which would give me 90% of the sonic quality at 20% of the high end cost. 20 years ago good speaker cable was heavy guage Monster Cable with bare wire terminations and interconnects with gold plated RCA's. Cable was cable except for finding the proper guage wire. After hooking up my new NAD 540C with the factory supplied patch cords, the CD Player was so harsh and grainy that I prefered listening to records. Not accepting failure with my CD experience, I visited my local Audio Dealer who handles Magnepan speakers. He advised I try Kimber Kable products so I auditioned a pair of Kimber Hero's along with Kimber 8TC's for Speaker Cable. The sound was more detailed but not worth the $700.00 it was going to cost new. Convinced that interconnects and cable could make a difference, I purchased MAD Pearl and XTC interconnects. The detail was improved greatly, but my system was still way to bright. After trying room modifications including carpeting my listening room walls (which did improve things), I purchased TMC White and Yellow Lable interconnects from ebay after reading the reviews here on Audioreview. The Yellow Lable produced an immeadiate sonic improvement over the MAD Pearl I was using between amp and preamp. My initial experience with the White Lable on my CD was not so exciting. I actually re-installed the MAD XTC's for a few days.

A week later I upgraded my speaker cables from a used and abused pair of Audioquest Crystal to a mint pair of used Kimber Monocles. During burn in of the Monocles, I in-advertently left the TMC White Lable IC'c on the CD, which ran for a couple of days around the clock. Later, I noticed the mistake and put the XTC's back in. The now harsh bright sounding XTC's illuminated the change TMC's had undergone. Unlike the Yellow Lable interconnects, the White Lable do not produce a stunning change. Instead they just remove the grain and brilliance while increasing attack velocity and detail.

I was still dissapointed with the peformance of my system with the Kimber Monocle speaker cables and decided that it must be the TMC interconnects as the Monocles are top of the line for Kimber's copper line of cable and the 8TC had sounded fine. I puchased a used pair of Kimber Silver Streak's and replaced the White Lable's. The grain did not return but the CD was still slightly bright with the pure silver IC's on the CD player and I didn't gain anything as far as sound stage and very little detail. I later tried the Silver Streaks between preamp and amp, see my TMC Yellow Lable review.

Finally on a whim, I switched back to my abused pair of Audioquest Crystal speaker cables and my system came to life!!! I mean this baby really was cooking and my System assembly project was complete...not. An email pal talked me into TMC Gold Lable speaker cables. You can read my review for them here on Audioreview.

None of the above was ment to disparage the other products I have tried. I am sure every system responds to the system's components differently which produces a synergy of sorts. I do know that the TMC products have worked well in a broad range of equipment, as I comunicate frequently with others who have, or are trying TMC in their systems. The intoductory price is great and deserves a five for value. Overall I give them a 5 because of there musicality without sacrificing other qualities. I suspect for enough money you can find cables that will beat these depending on your evaluation criterion. For me thay are right on spec for this project. In summary, if you are looking for a quality pair of interconnects for use between CD and preamp, you should give the TMC White Lable a try on a 45 day trial. You may never know how much detail you can achieve without the edgy harshness often heard with CD's on a high quality system. You will never find a more curtious, friendly dealer with quick response to email and excellent shipping, or you can call them like I did. Just check the time difference to Australia first! King may be cooking on the barbie.

My "Bargain" System-
Speakers: Magnepan MG IIIa's (used-20 years old)
Amp: Aragon 4004 MK I (used-10 years old)
Preamp: Aragon 24K (used-6 years old)
Turntable: Oracle Delphi MK II (used-20 years old)
CD: NAD540C (New discontinued model)

Similar Products Used:

MAD Pearl, MAD XTC, Kimber Hero, Kimber Silver Streak

Simply marvelous: Transparency and spaciuos sound is peerless

Stiffness. It can damage your RCA socket

Very tranaparent and accurate sound. Run in is necessary but the sound quality still improve when the cable is lying undisturbed without signal. Compared with the yellow label, the sound is even more transparent an detailed, but not so punchy. It can beat its rival of price 4-5 times higher even without a full break-in. I is really a steal in this price range. Can I give it 6 stars?

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Cresendo, XLO 1.1 and more