KLEI Absolute®Harmony Phono/RCA Plugs

Well, I've had a chance to review these RCA's on both my DIY Home Brew interconnects for a week or so and just today I switched a pair over to my Turntable.

The micro details and clarity these RCA's will bring to your system are absolutely superb. Along with that comes a significantly better defined image space, much crisper dynamics, an extended bottom end that has amazing depth and control, so they never sound bloated, just in control.

There is also a smoothness that comes into play especially in the upper register of violins, which can sometimes sound a little harsh. The sibilance on vocals is also superbly controlled and smooth also.

One place where these RCA's seem to shine is on my silver litz one piece tone-arm wire. The details they convey are nothing short of stunning.

If you have a turntable I would highly recommend getting these. You'll think you have replaced your cartridge with something much more expensive

If you already have the VDH Colibri or Koetsu Correlstone or something of a similar performance level then these RCA's will show you what these cartridges are really all about.

I have the Denon DL103 - and I have never heard details so vivid from this really affordable cartridge.

If you don't have vinyl, but have some serious single ended interconnects then give these a try - they perform equally as well and bring all of the same attributes to digital music.

They are so good they will bring your digital rig closer to an analogue sound - provided your rig is up to it :-)

Want more proof - take a look at the KLEI web site and see which cable/component manufactures are using the Harmony RCA plug line on their gear.

For example - just a few..
- Black Rhodium
- Origin Live
- ISOkinetic
- Anticables
- Gabriel Gold
- Signal Cable

http://www.kleinnovations.com/

There's also some pretty good reviews of their lineup on there also

Theyrrrrrrre GREAT!!!

Ooops - didnt' mean to sound like Tony the Tiger :-)

Williewonka, what other RCA plugs have you used so far on your DIY interconnects...

yping- see my post above 10_30_14

Regards

I have tried the following RCA's on my DIY cables and found each one in the list to perform discernibly better than the one before it...
- Canare
- Furutech with copper centre pin
- Eichmann Silver Bullet
- Copper Harmony
- Silver Harmony
- Pure Harmony
- Absolute Harmony (currently burning in)

I also replaced the Nakamachi RCA's on my silver litz one-piece tone-arm wire with the Pure Harmony and the improvements were staggering. They convey so much more information with a very neutral presentation. Again, they allow for more clarity, better and deeper bass, larger image etc...

ok, got it :)

Yping - I just wanted to mention that the RCA's are a small part of the cable puzzle.

Also the gZero cables are more than just a better performing cable...

Unfortunately, most people attribute all improvements to the last change they made without considering the bigger picture.

As an example...
Installing the gZero6 speaker cables in my system had a dramatic impact on the depth, speed and control of the bass
- but what if I had been using a more “conventional” power cable at the time I installed the gZero6’s
- a subsequent upgrade of that power cable might lead most people to attribute new improvements to the upgraded power cable alone.

It wasn’t until I started assessing what the overall impacts the gZero architecture was actually responsible for, that I realized...
- the architecture of both speaker cables and interconnects actually allows attached components to work as designed, by keeping the neutral side of attached components at zero volts - which dramatically improved imaging
- the power cables I use provides the “juice” at the “speed required” to improve the dynamic response of those components
- the quality materials & connectors in both the interconnects and the speaker cables conveys a more detailed and dynamic signal from the source to the speakers.

Basically It’s a “team effort”,

Other cables may actually degrade the performance of components - hence the frequent reference to "Synergy" between cables and components

Hope this makes sense