Jorma Design 'Prime' Speaker Cables
She likes it!
Hey Mikey! She likes it!
Uh, yes, Neli likes the speaker cables. Mike likes them too.
After 10 days on the Nordost Vidar cable burner, the caveats I noticed when we first heard these cables, the tiniest bit of midrange leaness and compression, are… gone. As suspected, the cables just weren’t completely broken in yet.
The Jorma Prime cables break new ground in the resolution department. Nordost Valhalla cables are usually considered to have very high resolution. But, well, this is a whole new ballgame. Heck, it is a whole new season.
On the Marten Design Coltrane speakers driven by the Lamm ML2.1 amplifiers, which are very high resolution themselves, what with ceramic drivers and a diamond tweeter, these speaker cables just shine. Shine a light on the music, is what.
OTL-like dynamics. Combined with the wonderful pacing this is just plain fun, happy, wow! to listen to.
Super-subtle voice intonations – where lots of the previously unheard nuances are freed, nuances that communicate more of the emotion and substance and individuality and humanity of the voices and instruments.
Voices? Even on day one the voices were enough to just grab you and throw you down in the nearest seat – or, depending on your personality, make you stand up and drench yourself in it all.
Transparency…
You remember how, the first time you heard a high-end system, you thought “Oh, so that is what was on that CD (or LP) this whole time?!!!”
Deep dish harmonics. Harmonic intent that was previously locked behind a dirty display case is now presented to the listener on a silver.. and gold… platter.
Separation, presence, … resolution.
Reso-f***ing-lution.
These cables were paired with the Marten Design Coltrane Supremes in the Swedish Statement room at CES, with their 2″ diamond midrange and 3/4″ diamond tweeter – No wonder we started hallucinating.
New ballgame? This is a whole new universe to explore.
OK. Whew! So, well, the cables are doing their part. Yep. Let’s just put a nice big check mark in that box….
Next!
OK. I believe in cables as first-class system components — be it interconnects, speaker cables or power cords. Really. And I’m rather picky about cable perfomance — while there may be several good choices for a particular, say, speaker cable, in a particular system, there is usually one that stands out, and like many other things there are cables that are not my favorites.
That said, I can’ t believe that the Jorma Prime is a f*ck!ng *cable*.
Better separation, while preserving continuousness. Better soundstage depth and breadth. Richer harmonic structure in a system that we didn’t feel was lacking in richness. Even better resolution — so please don’t read ‘rich’ as ‘muddy’ in any sense. A whole new sense of looking *into* the soundstage. Wow.
OK, today we move on to the interconnects ;-).
your cables are extremely awesome