Transparent,High Resoloution,Percise Imaging,Sharply Defined Image Outlines,Revealing, without sounding harsh and analytical.

Unsheilded,System Matching is EXTREMELY important

Overview: Buy this cable if your system has good synergy and you need more resolution across the board.
Do not buy this cable if your system sounds bright,forward or analytical. (or any combination of those.) The KCAG is a silver conductor Unshileded Cable availabile with several types of WBT termination. You must try this cable for its transparency, resolution, and retreival of fine detail.
Note: This cable had an extended break-in period of over 350 hours. I strongly urge you to try out a broken-in pair of this cable. Also there are no comparisons to other cables below because none were in the ballpark with the KCAG other than the Siltech ST-18 G3.

After Owning two 0.5m pairs this cable for little over 1 year I feel ready to write a review about them. There isn't much to say other than I have had gread success using this cable with Conrad-Johnson equipment both tubed and solid state, and it works wonderfully well on most of the other high resolution equipment I own. I don't reccommend that you use this cable unless you have a very good system, or one that has very good synergy, because this cable tends to bring most flaws to the surface in an unforgiving manner. For the money very few other cables come close to the resolution, others will give you a "musical" presentation(Siltech, be wary of the siltech's somewhat forward presentation). But if you crave accuracy look no further, this cable delivers with no artifical sounding addatives that detract from the music. None of the other cables sound as refined as the KCAG (not even the Siltech). The KCAG gets out of the way of the music, and you can also use all of those other audio cliches to describe its sound also just fill them in right here________________________________. $440 a meter may sound expensive but you get what you pay for. This cable removes all restraints from great systems, and makes good systems shine too. All musical tates are well served, from classical to alternative rock, from Veruca Salt to Patrcia Barber, it works wonders. Explosions, and dialouge sound good too through this silver wonder. You should audition this cable today!

Associated Equipment:
Amps- CJ CAV-50, CJ MF 2500,CJ MF 2300A,CJ MF2200, Adcom 5802,Adcom 5500,Proton AA2120
Preamlifiers- CJ PF-R, CJ PF-2, CJ PV-12Audio Research LS-9, Adcom GTP 450, CJ Sonographe
Receivers- Harman/Kardon AVR 75,Various Harman/Kardon AVR
Receivers
Digital- CJ DACs,Parasound 1100 DAC, Musical Fidelity CD player, Marantz CD-67se &63, Rega Planet CD player
Sony DVP-7700 DVD player
Speakers- Meadowlark Kestrel, Magneplanar 1.6s,B&W Nautilus 805,B&W CDM 7 & CDM 7se, B&W CDM 1se, B&W 302 &602,and others(paradim,polk,sony ssm7,)
Speaker Cables- Cardas Cross, Audioquest Crystal, Audioquest Indigo, Straghtwire Rhapsody 2, Straightwire Silver Surfer, Straightwire Duet,Straightwire Sextet, Kimber 4TC & 8TC, DH-Labs Silver Sonic, MIT Terminator 2,
Power Conditioning- Audio Power, Audio Prism, MIT Z cord 2,
JPS Labs GPA, Cardas Twinlink-A, Wireworld outlet strips, Tice Solo A/V, Monster Power HT

P.S. Above all, remember the music is the only thing that matters!

Similar Products Used:

Cardas Cross,Cardas Quadlink 5-c,Straightwire Rhapsody2,Audioquest Opal & Ruby, MIT-330i, MIT-Terminator 2&4,Kimber Hero,DH-Labs Silver Sonic,JPS Ultraconductor, Kimber Select 1010,Kimber Silver Streak, Monster 550i,Tara Labs Air 3, Tara Labs Master Gen 1

Check these cables out, they are worth my money. I use KCAG from D/A to pre and another one with XLR connectors from pre to amp, also AGDL digital cable. they sound great, detailed and transparent, especially instruments location are very well placed. They cost about 400 us$ for 1 meter pair, and 200$ per 1 meter for digital.

Very transparent cable, It brings out more details in my system . My soundstage grew larger and focused everything inside of it. It just images information superbly (more 3D ) . KCAG is one of my more favoriteable interconnects so-much that I now have four pairs. I have tried KIMBERS PBJ In the past and dident care for them at all , KCAG is A totaly different cable ,A little expensive but very addictive.

Supreme clarity, neutral balance, detail.

A very different sound.

WBT!

Overall effect in an appropriate system.

Could be covered, but it would ruin the silver appeal.

I use it between Rotel RCD 991 CD player and Musical Fidelity X-A1 amplifier, with Jamo Concert 8 speakers and Kimber Kable 8TC speaker cable, in a room 4m x 6m.


The overall effect in my system is very perfectionist, but never irritating. A reasonable amount of space and headroom.

Perfect clean sound.

Similar Products Used:

HERO?

fast, clean, detailed and very quiet back ground

A little pricey but that's nothing campared to my amp!

These cables definetly woke up the higher end of the sonic spectrum but compared to my custom made cables they lost a little bass depth and definition. This isn't really a fair comparison, but that is what I heard. Still, with the KCAG the bass is very good. I still use PBJ for my video set up because it's cheap and sounds better than anything else near the price. But for my He-man rig the KCAG works very well! It's marginally better than Silver Streak. In all honesty, unless you're a audiophile freak with the bucks the spare, go with the Streak. Otherwise KCAG may not be a bad investment. I'm still curious to compare it to the Select series.

To sum up, I highly recommend these cables and haven't had any problems with them sonically.

Associated Equipment:
Rega Planet and Planar 25
Bryston B60
B&W CDM 1SE
Double run of Kimber 8TC speaker cables

Similar Products Used:

Kimber PBJ,Hero,Silver Streak, custom made cables

Purist design

Require good system match

I must mention that all the reviews below are really accurate and insightful, particularly Vincent from Virginia who I think hit it perfect.

If you are not a seasoned audiophile, you probably won't go crazy for this cable. However, if you have a seasoned ear, this cable may just make you cry, it is that good. A lot of cables are designed and intended for detail retrieval and low detail resolution. They all cost a lot ($500 to $800), the KCAG at half meter is about $230 and it is as good as the MIT shotgun. A lot of the high end cables are described by many as dynamic, smooth, neutral, accurate, great image and soundstage, etc. I would describe the KCAG as perfectly balanced. It is as close to a purist design as one can be.

It is not the right cable for everyone, especially if your gear are not quite perfectly matched. (As most audiophiles know, expensive components that are not properly matched may sometime sound worst than mid end components that are well matched) However, if you feel good about the way your system sound and are just looking for that special icing on the cake ... definitely do give the KCAG a test drive.

My gear:
Sim P3 and W3 separates
JM Lab Cobalt 820 speakers
Sony DVD player
MIT Shotgun speaker cables
Kimber KCAG interconnects

Similar Products Used:

JPS superconductor, MIT CVTerminator II,
(home auditioned Silver Audio Hyacinth and MIT Shotgun)

Clear, great soundstage and placement of sounds

May be too bright for some systems

This is used between my pre-amp and my power amp. THe sound is clear, a little bit bright, with excellent sound stage, and placement of instruments, voices etc. A really captivating sound.

Similar Products Used:

Cardas Cross, Harmonic Technologies