by Michael

Jorma Design 'Prime' interconnect

Patience they say, is its own reward.

Well… this is a nice reward. 🙂

Some photos…

Jorma Design's Prime RCA intrerconnect

Jorma Design's Prime RCA intrerconnect

Initial impressions?

Today the Prime replaced the Stealth INDRA interconnects in order to hear just what the interconnects can do – this is the way that we often audition interconnects. All interconnects up to this point have taken a back seat to the INDRA…

Until now.

A funny thing happens with audio gear. Like the Audio Note CDT-3, and now these cables (and, of course, the INDRA themselves), and to some degree all gear, what arrives as an inanimate, cold, dead, technological curiosity comes alive and gets this glow around it as one learns to appreciate more and more what the piece does – how it is enriching one’s life and those who hear it. It goes from being valuable in a monetary sense to valuable in a life-sustaining sense. It is food, that tastes goooooood.

OK. Initial impressions in comparion to the INDRA:

PROS: More authority, lots more separation, lots more presence, deeper soundstage, a little more bass, more suspense, more resolution.

Also… it has more beauty – the inherent beauty of the music comes through better. This is not richness of tone or dynamics or anything like that. Some of this has to do with the musical rightness of riffs playing off of and against and into another. Not too clear right now what else is happening – hopefully will get more insight as time goes on here.

CONS: None [Yeah. Right. This is Audio Federation. The picky people. There are always cons.] except the midrange being a tiny bit leaner than the INDRA, and similarly the midrange is experiencing a little more compression as well.

Funny, we were told to expect these two symptoms as part of the cable settling-in process [ Even funnier, we NEVER believe stuff like this that people tell us, about how something is going to sound. But sometimes, they are right. Too cloudy here – it is snowing – to see if there is a blue moon outside or not.] Well, experiencing them we are. These anomalies are also supposed to go away in a few hours to a day or so – and they are diminishing after only two hours…

TO BE CONTINUED…

Speaking of tomorrow, the plan is that the Jorma Prime speaker cables will replace the Jorma No .1 speaker cables and the system will be almost completly Jorma Prime.

‘Till then, then.

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 by Michael

Jorma Design's Prime cables to arrive…. tomorrow (hopefully)

Funny, no matter where I am in life, no matter how well things are working or how well things are going, …or not – there is always these times spent waiting for something to arrive in the mail.

There is the ‘Waiting around for the FedEX package during the 10:30am or so time frame when they usually deliver things so I can sign it’ Blues.

There is the ‘Trying to wake up in time to make the 9:30am ETA of one particular UPS guy in order to intercept him BEFORE he tosses the package up to the front door from what sounds like 10 feet away’ Blues

Then there is the ‘It didn’t come today, what a waste of my time, what a waste of a life sitting around waiting for this thing” crescendo followed by the ‘Going to do it all again, tomorrow, anyway, cause it will be so great when it gets here’ Country Western top 10 jingle.

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 by Michael

Jorma Design 'Prime' cables

The Jorma Design Prime on the Coltrane Supreme speaker

Well, it looks like Robert Levi over at Positive Feedback gave Jorma Design’s Prime, their statement cables, a rave review. [But he didn’t put the Jorma Design No. 1 cable in with the group of the best of the $2000 to $4000 cable group. For shame. It belongs near, if not at, the top of that list. Actually, the order in that list is a little strange… Oh, but on to the real topic of this entry:]

We sell the Jorma Prime cables, but they are new this year and we cannot talk about them until we really understand what they do.

We heard these at CES in the Swedish Statement room (on the Marten Design Coltrane Supreme speakers) and we certainly liked the sound of that system – so we know they don’t totally suck (note: the term ‘suck’ is not audiophile approved).

But to understand the sound of the cables themselves we would have to listen to them here at Audio Federation.

And we are! I mean will. They are supposed to be here today, or hopefully tomorrow. Exact same cables and everything. So, we will hear what we will hear.

As always with these Expensive things, one always hopes that they live up to their price (or really, one hopes on the one hand and fears on the other 🙂 )

Let’s see, can we afford to love them, given that we are now getting the Coltrane Supreme loudspeaker?

No.

Do we (i.e. me, Neli ain’t here) have the will power to not open the box when they come?

To not put them on the main system, replacing the Stealth INDRA interconnect and Jorma Design No. 1 speaker cables?

Uh oh.

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