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The Right Chord Jon Myles brings together a one-make cable system from Chord to show how just such a consistent approach can pay dividends The beauty here is that with the Chord loom in place you can happily look to upgrade your components over time with obvious benefit. Swap the Creek to something of the...
Chord Company C-line review You can tell Chord is relatively pleased with its Tuned ARAY technology. Until now, however, it’s been aimed at the high-end hi-fi listener only. But that was before the C-line stereo RCA interconnect. Build Even with all this technology, high-grade copper conductors and high-density foil shielding, what difference can a metre...
Chord Company Clearway review There’s an easy way to tell the 2016 version of Chord’s Clearway from the 2015 edition. The original Chord Clearway speaker cable looked like a silver space snake, with the foil beneath the transparent PVC jacket clearly visible. Performance And the effect upon our reference system makes for very interesting listening...
Chord Company Sarum Super ARAY Chord Co appears to understand this better than most, all of its upgrades result in your favourite records sounding better and this is doubly so with Sarum Super ARAY (Tuned ARAY cables can be upgraded to Super status BTW. It is expensive but if you are serious about getting to...
Apart from sounding great, the cables that connect your power amp to your speakers often have to be routed inconspicuously around the edges of a carpet. Therefore, something that can handle the power from the amplifier has to be balanced with a cable that is both flexible and thin. The cable can be terminated in...
SOUND QUALITY Swapping in the C-Line for my usual Van Den Hul interconnect (which costs more than twice the price of the Chord) and it’s obvious this is no run-of-the-mill budget interconnect. Its sound is extremely clear and open with a dynamic range which belies its price. On Led Zeppelin’s ‘Dazed And Confused’ bass had...
Tony Bolton explores the capabilities of the latest versions of some tried and trusted interconnects from the Chord Company. I started my listening with the Chorus cables and was presented with a big, quite warm and easygoing sound that was underpinned by a very solid bass. The central image of the flute in the first...
Strike A Chord Offering a budget interconnect for under £50, Paul Rigby reviews the Chord C-line cable. It may be a budget cable but Chord’s C-line uses the company’s own Tuned ARAY cable creation technique (Tuned Aray was initially designed for digital cables and was a way of reducing reflections back up the cable) and...