Testimonials
From Henry Wilkenson, Audiophilia Magazine
The ETE Red speaker cable (SC222) was comparable to my Wasatch cables (4K a pair list). The ETE Black Magic interconnects tend to be very dimensional and somewhat airy with a noticeable amount of clarity. I believe this is due to their ability to reject EMI and other sources of noise. The Acoustic Zen Absolute cables are a bit more weighty and solid sounding ($2,488 per meter pair), not at all a bad showing for the ETE Cables!!"
…..I put a pair of Ear to Ear Music Cable, speaker wire in the system and things only got better. The sound became even more dynamic with greater tumbrel weight and transparency. All of the positive characteristics that I heard were enhanced with these cables. I think that you will be hearing a lot more about Ear to Ear in the future.
From Robert Stewart, Toronto, Ontario
ETE cables are the best I have heard. The shielding is superb, and they are meticulously made by hand by an audiophile who knows the difference, and wants you to hear the difference- you will! I would strongly recommend these cables to anyone who is searching for the very best sound from their system.
From Alexander Kolegov, Moscow, Russia
The cables are crisp and dynamic. Frankly, I did not notice whether musicality improved or not - they just disappear. Fixing the ground wire was very simple. I did not make direct comparison with or without the ground wire, but will probably do it later. I noticed, however, that fixing the ground wire improved bass tremendously.
When connected to the CDP, the overall picture was good enough (I tried it without the ground wire), but I subsequently installed to the CDP the VH Audio AirSine, because with my newly repaired integrated amplifier the ETE Black power cord is the winner!!
No need to refund the extra shipping costs- thank you. The cables are worth much more.
From Ken Davis, Joppa, MD
Kudos to you ETE for coming up with a very resolving power chord design at a bargain price point. I am beginning to agree that the critical factor with power cords is the quality of that shielding and the thicker gauge wire, as you stated.
From Bernard Hickey, Newmarket, Ontario
I tested the ETE, Freeway umbilical cable between my Blue Circle BC 3000 power supply and control unit pretty extensively last night. The improvements over the stock cable are truly impressive. I'm going to be needing my own Freeway, no doubt about it. Great job!
From Patrick Phillips, Toronto, Ontario
I used the Black power cord on my Mark Levinson 332 and my Mccormack sst-1 It opened both of them up . It sounded great. Give me your address and I will send you a cheque. Thanks
From Bernard Hickey, Newmarket, Ontario
I've just spent a fair amount of time comparing the Ear to Ear (ETE)Red speaker cable to my long time reference. The most obvious improvement was the superior performance of the ETE in the bass/lower frequencies, my other cable seemed both colored and lacking definition by comparison. I can only guess that this is due to the superior reproduction of the higher frequency/harmonics content of the overall bass. i.e. better mid-bass performance since the ETE bass cable was a constant for the very low bass.
Another general difference was the rendering of the soundstage with the ETE, it providing better rendering of dimensions (all ... i.e. depth, width, layering, etc.). The ETE cable didn't exhibit this aspect of performance in an exaggerated or obvious manner, rather when switching to my other cable the presentation proved to be generally more forward and compressed in the front to back dimension. A related aspect was that when the going got hot the ETE just seems to let the action expand without fuss where my other cable would exhibit some strain.
In terms of raw information retrieval the ETE was better but this was dependent on the source material. If acoustic cues and fine detail subtleties were present the ETE served them up in a superior manner, i.e. better sense of the acoustic space (reverb, echo, etc.) and detail (cymbal work, etc.). In some cases this was pretty exciting, i.e. discovering an exciting and rewarding rendition of a well known tune. However on other material the effect was less pronounced, presumably because the material didn't have any secrets to be revealed.
The Mission proved to be an excellent choice to show off all the many improvements to good effect. Immediately at the beginning the rendering of the male voices in the chorus was startlingly superior, in fact with my other cable the contribution of the male voices seem very nearly completely masked; I suspect the ETE’s superior mid-bass performance is the main factor here. The chorus work in general is fairly significantly better with the ETE, the different sections all holding their own nicely, phrases ending with a hard consonant clearly a collection of individual sibilance rather than a single sibilant hash, etc. This work has a lot of complex orchestral interplay and the rendering of find details is clearly superior via the ETE. As an example in the piece following the coral introduction, the piece that features the two "breathy" wind pipes (or whatever they are), on the right, the other on the left, with the ETE it becomes apparent that there are other wind instruments (likely flute and oboe) that occupy the center ground playing similar melodic lines ... I'd never even noticed them previously. Full orchestral climaxes are delivered with greater poise and bloom.