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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
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williewonka
3,075 posts
 
Yping - I was very surprised at the amount of improvement the new gZEROs architecture made.

The biggest improvements across all models is the clarity and image. Although everything else improved also.

Regards
yping
351 posts
 
Interesting! The gZero6 ICs I have are wonderful and very nice ICs but it sounds like really good timing for me :)
yping
351 posts
 
Willewonka, what KLEI gZero ICs are you currently using and why do you like them...
williewonka
3,075 posts
 
I'm currently using
- the gZero20's for Analogue IC's
- the gZeros3D for SPDIF
- the gZero6 Speaker Cables
- The Absolute Harmony RCA plugs on my Audiomods tone-arm

Why am I using them? - they are the best products I've use to date and do not cost the equivalent of a small car.

I have a high-end store near by which gives me the opportunity to listen to come very high end components and cables. Some systems in the store exceed $200,000, having Siltech cables that sound amazing. The most outstanding attribute of systems like these is their ability to recreate the space and acoustic signature of live recording venues with outstanding clarity.

The KLE Innovations cables in my system has achieved a similar sense of the venue's unique acoustic signature and space, together with outstanding clarity and detailing for a fraction of the cost of component upgrades.

And as it turns out - my components are pretty darn good :-)

One of the more unique attributes of the KLEI cables is the gZero Architecture's ability to allow the components to operate more effectively/efficiently, by maintaining zero volts across the neutral side of all connected components.
This lowers the noise floor and significantly improves the details and clarity.

Adding one KLEI cable made a difference, using KLEI cables throughout the entire system made a significant impact.

Regards...

yping
351 posts
 
Willewonka, thanks and pretty amazing and yes that is my experience with the gZero6 ICs/SCs and gZero2D spdif IC that I use on my squeezebox. Makes the squeezebox sound very analogue which I found and find quite amazing :)

That is the reason that I am going to replace my gZero6 ICs with gZero20 ICs and use the gZero6 ICs elsewhere ... looking forward to it :)
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