“Distortion has to be one of the most insidious aspects of sound interference currently infecting our hi-fi. It suffocates sound frequencies, choking them to such an extent that much of the available detail is masked from your ears. Distortion arrives in many flavours and is often only noticed once it is absent but, when that occurs, the difference can often be nothing short of sublime.

The entire cable range is defined by its superior sense of focus at the price. This means that each frequency does not have to do battle with every other, allowing the music to display its finer qualities. More shades of colour are made available within each track and more subtly is present too while detail is no longer veiled, so you get to hear ‘hidden’ information that has been lurking there all along. This is a fine array of speaker cables from Tellurium Q that will fit just about any system out there. All warrant five globe ratings at their respective price points, so are well worth investigating.”

Paul Rigby / David Price

AUGUST 2010 HI-FI WORLD

We looked at the problem that speaker cables had and realised that the problem audio research and development around the world was not addressing was phase distortion. So we started from scratch and designed the Tellurium Blacks from the ground up to have virtually no phase distortion. You could say that this is the first low phase distortion cable. Yes the cable also has low capacitance and very high bandwidth but primarily it is phase distortion that these cables, unlike other cables (we believe), has been built to tackle which is why they sound so clear and natural.

Because the Blacks are very revealing and people have personal preferences along with the requirements of certain systems that will actually favour a less neutral quality, we developed companion cables for the Blacks. Blue for the Black and Green for the Ultra Black. The companion cables are the more familiar “warmer” sound that people have become used to in cables while maintaining better phase control than normal.

Like a background sound that suddenly stops and you only notice it because it is gone people tell us that they notice the lack of smearing only because it is gone. It is something that people’s ears have become used to and is normal for nearly all speaker cables until now.

”people will be surprised by this cable range’s lack of bulk compared to others.”

"I use Tellurium Q Black and Ultra Black as one of our reference cables."

Graeme Foy  Head of Acoustics for Mordaunt-Short

speaker manufacturer

HiFi+ cables of the year 2010

Our Difference:

The First cables developed primarily to successfully combat phase distortion.

We recommend low mass beryllium copper z plugs for all Tellurium Qtm speaker cables but there is also the option of low mass spade termination for systems that require it.