Review: KLEI gZero10 Interconnect

Category: Cables

More of the same!
After eight months of thoroughly enjoying the KLEI gZero6 IC’s I became tempted to see if there is a significant improvement in their next model up, the gZero10 IC’s. Having been so besotted by the sheer value for money and performance of the gZero6’s, could the 10s be really worth the extra money?
If you go by looks alone you would say NO. They look exactly the same as the 6s other than the use of Absolute Harmony RCA’s in place of the Pure Harmony RCA’s on the 6s. Oh, and the little tag near the end of the RCA’s now reads Essence gZer0 10 instead of Essence gZero 6. Maybe the money has gone into improvements in sound rather than looks? Could this be a case of substance over style? Now that would make quite a change.
Burned in, I allowed the cables another few hours of settling in before doing any serious listening.
Now the heading of this little review says, ‘More of the same!’ That could of course be damning with faint praise. But that’s not what I meant.
More of the same means more of the qualities that the 6’s exhibited. An even more quiet background as music flows out of an even darker silence; more articulate and propulsive bass; more clarity and purity throughout the midrange and cleaner and more extended high frequencies. The imaging places the singers and instruments in an even more realistic three dimensional world, surrounded by more air and space.
Here we have even more resolution and transparency but still maintaining all the musicality we crave rather than the sterility that many super transparent cables create.
Now this all might sound like a night and day difference between the gZero10’s and their cheaper stablemate the gZero6’s. That’s not true. The gZero6’s are superb cables and what the 10’s do is give just some ‘more’ of the same. They are kindred spirits and you can tell that they come from the same family, just one is slightly more grown up and more mature.
Whether you think the extra money they cost is worth it, only you can tell. For my part they make a worthwhile improvement over the gZero6’s and I am willing to spend the extra money. And I did.
Highly recommended!

Please note: I have no commercial interest in KLEI.

Associated gear
Ayon CD5s with Burson OPamp Upgrade
Vitus RI-100 Integrated
Magico S1
KLEI gZero6 Speaker Cables
Lessloss Original Power Cables