Stealth Hybrid JR speaker cables

I'll try to give you something of an answer. First, I haven't heard the Hybrid JR but I do own the Hybrid MLT so I'm going on the premise that they sound similar.

I changed from Audience AU24 to Stealth Hybrid MLT's recently and the major differences I would comment on between those cables are:

1. The Stealth's are more detailed, I can make out vocal passages that I couldn't quite understand before. I can hear things going on that I wasn't able to make out before. Also, attack's are sharper and decays are longer.

2. The Stealth's are more transparent. What I mean by this, (I hate all these reviewer like terms :-) ), is that the instruments stand out on their own more, they're separated in space better and the "absence of sound" between them is more noticeable. I guess this is what people mean when they say that they have blacker backgrounds.

3. A friend who was over a couple of days ago who has good ears felt that they sounded fuller than the Audience cables.

4. Finally I find that they do a more realistic portrayal of the timbre of instruments than the Audience cables. Maybe this is why my friend felt they sounded fuller.

Basically, I bought the Stealth cables because when I first added the Hyperphono and then the Metacarbon to the system, I liked that they provided nice detail, did not sound bright and had a very relaxed and natural quality to them.

When my wife and I go to Symphony for example, I always notice how the violins are high pitched but there is no grating whatsoever and everything has a relaxed natural quality. These cables move my system towards that ideal. They help my system sound more like real music I suppose.

The AU24's are very nice cables but the Stealth are simply better, (which they should be for the cost difference). I hope this helps.

>>but the Stealth are simply better, (which they should be for the cost difference)<<

You might enjoy one cable more than another and that's a subjective issue.

However, a more expensive cable doesn't always sound better than a less expensive cable. Actually the correlation between cost and performance is marginal IMO.

I've experienced dozens of situations in which a cheaper cable has outperformed far more costly products.

Cables are system and listener dependent.

Bhoage, Thanks for all of that information. That does give me a general idea.

AudioFeil, Certainly a good point. I have gone ahead and bought the stealth to try them in my system.

I have been using mit avt1 biwire speaker cables and recently started wondering if I could improve upon them with seperate high and low runs with no network in the mix. To this end I will try using the stealth for the mid/tweeter and kimbers new version 8tc for the bass section.

Of course this may not be better and could be worse but that's my strange condition.