Good soundstaging,well built,musical,neutral sound

A little stiff but manageable

Got these cables at a audiogon auction. The cables arrived very well packaged and sealed in plastic. The locking rca's are well made and once connected it did not not take long to tell that this new company is on to something good. While almost everyone else is using silver TMC has stayed with copper and they did there homework. These cables have depth,stay neutral,and provide good soundstaging. With all that I mentioned my cables are still burning in! Great value.

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Once run in, performance compared to weaknesses and price, make these cables a fabulous buy!

Due to inherent stiffness and smooth cable bend radius required, you need around 5" clear min behind your equipment.

I purchased the white and yellow interconnects through Audigon based purely on good reviews and the money back guarantee. My system is of very high resolution, but it was not easy to listen to at high volumes for long periods of time. I figured a change of interconnect may do the trick. I received the cables exactly one week after ordering and they arrived in perfect condition. The Music Cable Company is very easy to deal with and King has been very courteous with follow up e-mails. The build quality of the TMC’s is as good as I have seen; professionally crafted and attractive.
I replaced my more expensive silver interconnects with the TMC’s and my initial impression was disappointment! I had lost detail and apparent dynamics. The TMC’s sounded dull in comparison. One thing that I did notice though was a very musical, foot tapping presentation that was much easier to listen to at high volumes. I decided to give the TMC’s a chance because of these facts and run them in, most of the time without me listening. After about a month of listening on and off, my opinion of the TMC’s changed dramatically! After critical listening on known material these were my new conclusions. The TMC’s had opened way up and had become significantly more transparent. The dullness had disappeared and they sound incredibly natural. I thought I was imagining it and so changed back to my silvers. It was not my imagination and the silvers sounded almost unpleasantly harsh and thin, now I had got used to the TMC’s. The balance now, I would describe as very neutral. The TMC’s sound quite different to a lot of cables. They are only make a noise when the music is playing, otherwise they are silent. This sounds weird but TMC owners will understand. Reading the online literature, I would imagine this is due to the excellent screening effect of the solid jackets. The cables have incredible space, separation and positioning qualities. I think this is because there is less “junk” in the signal and so separation is easier to hear. They are easily the most natural and musical sounding cables that I have heard and I have been comparing and making cables for over 20 years! I am now going to replace all my cables with TMC’s, I am that impressed! I think I have finally found a cable that I can be happy with long term and just enjoy the music for a change (traditional audiophile problem). Remember, don’t form an opinion until they are well run in as they get a lot better!

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Numerous cables of widely varying prices for many years.

neutral, transparent

too cheap?

I purcased them with a pair fo TMC yellow label from audiogon. What a steal! If you ever care marginal utility, this is the one!

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Construction and materials are A-1+ - audiophile grade. Good looks and great performance.

Fairly stiff cable, however it retains the shape or routing once you have positioned it

I picked up a couple of pairs of these off of e-bay. This is a small, botique manufacturer from Austrailia. These cables are built to last a lifetime. A nylon netting is used as an outer jacket, and they come with first class locking RCA's. I opened them up and the soldering is excellent, along with the insulators from what I could view of the cable construction. Hooked them up, and straight out of the pack (a vacuum sealed bag with protectors over the RCA's) they sounded GREAT! I got a reduced noise floor and very tight performance before they were even broken in. After four weeks of burn-in they have continued to improve. I've noticed even tighter mid-bass and mid-range performance, along with stereo imaging to die for. These are an excellent product. This is a cut through the hype product, and plain and simple, they perform. Neutral and musical.

Aside from buying these on e-bay, I've noticed them on Audiogon.com. They also have sales (specials) on the company website. You can get these for a reasonable price if you shop, and they are worth every penny. Very happy with the performance and highly recommended. These easily rival or exceed the performance of cables that I have paid hundreds more for.

As the Aussies said with my order confirmation . . . "enjoy the music with our cables!" Believe it . . . I won't be upgrading my cables again soon, as these are a wonderful compliment to my system.

Components Used:
Denon AVR-5700
NAD 2600a Amplifier
Rega Planet CD
Panasonic A120U DVD
API Power
Energy C-6 Conossieur Towers
Energy AC300 & RVSS Surrounds

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Flawless, seamless, open, detailed, I think I have about covered it all

ABSOLUTELY NONE!

I really dont have much more to say than I have already said above...I soon will have my entire system wired with TMC, and my goodness, phenomenal....Do yourself a tremendous favor, buy em and buy em now, while you can afford em...

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Value, sound quality

none so far

The moment I replaced the Kimber PBJ cables between my Theta Chroma DAC and the NAD CD player I noticed a completely different sound coming from my B&W speakers. The soundstage seems wider and clearer, the music more natural sounding. Overall I'm very happy. I'll write more once I install the TMC yellows that I just bought at Audiogon.

My humble system:
Rotel RC972 preamp
Theta Chroma DAC
NAD 520 CD (used as CD transport)
NAD 2700THX power amp
B&W DM3000 speakers
IXOS 6003 speaker wire
Kimber PBJ and TMC White interconnects

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A fantastic product that comes with great service. These people have a cut through the crap product and service that goes beyound expectations.

The white label interconnects are much more flexible that the yellow cables. The added flexiblity is quite nice.

Not a cheap mass market product but something made to last. Very high quality locking rca's, and a beautiful yellow and black sleave.

The sound is very musical, with nice depth. These cables brought with them a much more musical, realistic sound to my stereo and what more could I ask for. Great work on a great cable.

The sound...all of it!!!

It is a bit stiff, which makes it a little difficult to work with. But, believe me, your trouble will be rewarded!

I also posted this review for TMC's Yellow cable. As others have mentioned the Yellow is a bit warmer sounding. Not slower or bloated, just warmer. TMC recommends using their White Label for connecting source components to the pre-amplifier and Yellow Label for the connection from the pre-amplifier to the amplifier. Don't take this advice as set in concrete though, I tried both White and Yellow in my system and preferred the sound with Yellow connected throughout. This is not to say that White isn't as good a cable as the Yellow, it is, it just means that you get your choice of flavors...yum!

WOW.

I thought about making that single word my review. It does sum-up this cable perfectly. I can honestly say that I've never been blown-away by a cable before, and I've tried a bunch, but that is exactly what this cable did to me. From the minute I installed these quite attractive looking interconnects in place of my long-time favorites, AudioQuest Diamond, and sat back to give a listen I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face. Unbelievable. I had just replaced $3,000 (when I bought them new) worth of cable with approximately $250 (including shipping) worth of cable and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Now I don't want this review to turn into a diatribe about how these cables are such a bargain for the price, because they are so much more than that.

If you go to TMC's web site (WWW.The-Music-Cable.com) you will see that the construction of this cable is a little different than any other...at least that I know of. Like many other cables the main signal conductor is copper (no, NOT silver), but that is where the similarity to other cables out there ends. Instead of trying to reduce skin effect (the most obviously audible result of bad - and some good and very expensive - cable designs) by using multiple gauges of wire and/or various weaving techniques, TMC has taken a more simple, and, I think, more ingenious approach. In the core of this very well insulated cable runs a single solid strand of aluminum wire. Now anyone with even a basic knowledge of electricity knows that aluminum is a very poor electrical conductor, so why use it in an audio cable if passing an electrical signal is its raison d'etre? Because this aluminum has been coated with a very thin layer of copper, and it is the copper that acts as the conductor. This arrangement has the advantage of virtually eliminating skin effect, and that is quite evident once you start listening.

And listen I have. Huge, open, deep, and transparent soundstage, very clean midrange and highs, extended and controlled low-end, and great separation between instruments (this cable is a jazz-lovers dream). Of course there are other cables out there that can provide you with these attributes, but not with the degree of musicality that the TMC's deliver. I've heard cables that make me feel like I'm part of the recording, but I've always felt as though the instruments didn't sound quite real. As though Miles was playing through an amplifier in the studio…live, but still artificial. With the TMC cables all of that changed. Listening to Relaxin' I closed my eyes and could almost smell the brass and feel the spit. Now that's music! I think I've finally found the "plus sign" to make my audio system greater than the sum of its components. Like I said before, WOW!

Associated Components:
Sony SACD-1 SACD/CD Player
Krell KRC-HR Preamplifier
Bryston 10B Crossover
Bryston 7B ST Amplifiers
AudioQuest Dragon Loudspeaker Cables (2 pairs for true bi-wire)
Magnepan 3.6R Loudspeakers
Sunfire Signature Subwoofers (4)

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