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.

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.