
"...the best I’ve had in my
system and reasonably
priced to boot."
Reviews
Soundstage revisits the Colibri and Firebird cables 03/07
Soundstage (Firebird and Collibri interconnects)
Built from a twin-run of hollow, tubular copper conductors for signal delivery, each one discretely shielded. Terminated to Xhadow Reference RCAs in the ISC method, Colibri-R is truly a world-class interconnect.
This "microtube" feature gives the conductor the skin profile of a 32 AWG conductor while maintaining the lower resistance of a larger gauge. This permits the Colibri-R to perform with the agility and grace of thin-conductors without suffering from their high resistance - and yet it is also a monocoque product that won't suffer from problems associated with stranded and "litz" designs that have purported to solve the "skin-depth vs. resistance" challenge.
"...Overall, the Stereovox Colibri-R interconnects and Firebird speaker cables are the best I’ve had in my system and reasonably priced to boot..."
"..Surely you've heard about the component that initially sounds fine but unremarkable, until one day, WHAM! the world changes. Well, that didn’t happen here. What did happen was that as I was scrolling through the cuts on my Keb’ Mo’ Slow Down CD [Okeh/550/Epic 69376], which I find to be a particularly useful barometer for picking out individual areas of strength or weakness of a product, when I noticed that I was listening to tracks I normally skip. Hmmm. By the time I got to track 7, "I Don’t Know," which is usually a fly by for reviewing purposes, it hit me -- hard. With all the Stereovox cables in place, there was a distinctly superior sense of dimension, balance, and "liveness" that drew me in more subjectively than objectively. Translation: I didn’t have to think about why I was enjoying the music and sound, I just was. My left brain had been put to sleep, and the right was in full control..."