03/08/2024
Best sound on the old planet.
“Little, toy-scale electrical power lines! Play-Doh hair-extruding machines!...these cables are utterly inappropriate for your home.“
Kidding.
„...we’re talking superb imaging here. It only took a day or two after installing the Witchcraft cables for me to notice one very important difference in my system. Images became larger, more corporeal, rounder, and more vivid. … With the Voodoo Labs cables running the show, his voice was more solid, more real than I’ve ever heard. Physically larger than I’m used to, was this image. This was a very good start…. Regardless, the rich, round, whomping attack started low down in physical space and rolled upward, and for the first time I noted that this big-ass instrument was in front of Whitmore, I could hear the two instruments layered on top of each other: still discrete, stable, and incredibly tactile….There was still plenty of depth to the soundscape of the track. As I changed my focus, I could peel back layers, like picking at a fresh croissant with a steak knife. The little taps and plinks at the end of the track gained a feeling of dynamic precision, and I found my eyes flitting left and right as my mind insisted that I focus on the sounds….When I first saw the skinny, p***y little wires that made up each leg of the Witchcraft’s conductors, I found myself wondering how they’d handle the bass. Surely we need forearm-sized wires to transmit man-sized bass? Well, not so much, I guess. Via the Witchcraft cables, the bass was tight, accurate, and immensely satisfying. ...The fretless bass that mumbles to itself in “The Rainbow” had the correct amount of growl, and—once I focused on it—the appropriate size and position in space. Likewise, the piano that intones several deep, ominous notes in the break—huge, juicy, and satisfying….The Voodoo Labs cables are a total mad-professor, arcing Tesla-coil conglomeration. But as I stated earlier, I think this approach is a glorious insanity. In the opposite corner, we have the slinky, sexy, low-profile, sparkly Crystal Cables, from whic...The Witchcrafts also did that open-sounding thing, pretty much on par with the Monets, but it was in imaging that the Witchcrafts differed from the Crystal Cables. The Voodoo Labs cables portrayed images with uncanny realism—incredible solidity, with rock-solid positioning….The Witchcrafts also did that open-sounding thing, pretty much on par with the Monets, but it was in imaging that the Witchcrafts differed from the Crystal Cables. The Voodoo Labs cables portrayed images with uncanny realism—incredible solidity, with rock-solid positioning….Either way, either speaker, I’d be happy to keep the Witchcraft cables in my system, given their crazy-fun architecture, excellent sound, and reasonable (I did a bit of an eye-roll there) price….The final word, the last thing—these cables sounded good. Really good."
Read it all here. Triple love to Senior Editor Jason Thorpe for such a glorious, insightful piece:
https://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/1243
