“Gave my system the ‘work out’ with the enhancement cd last night. I quite enjoyed having the house rumbling away for an hour or so, especially the buzzing of shelves and rattling bottles in the kitchen! I thought it sounded like Brian Eno boogieing down with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in a Breaking Bad meth lab. And was that The Chemical Bros. guesting on the last track? ?
Seriously though, I settled down to listen afterwards and you could have knocked me down with a feather. First impression was of a recessed soundstage with greater than usual depth. I always interpret this as being a result of better resolution of reverb information and thus clearer clues to spatial image. The bonus of a recessed soundstage being that one can raise the volume somewhat and the whole thing just gets bigger!!
A good start then. Then there were the vocals: more immediacy, focus, nuance and delicacy. Moments when the singer stops and yet was palpably still there just pausing before singing the next phrase. I never had that before. And so it went on with enhancements to every aspect of the music and I spent a long evening glued to my seat ?
What can I say, a delightful surprise. Now TQ cables are widely appreciated and I find myself wondering why you don’t provide the cd when people buy a set of your cables and then they would be even more impressed?
It will be interesting to see how often I feel the need to give the stereo another fix of the refresh track. “Please doctor, I can give up smoking but don’t take away my TQ enhancement cd!”
Is there a 24/96 or even 192 version available? ? Plans for a vinyl? Ho ho.
So far everything I have heard from TQ has turned out to be a delight. You guys seem to have an understanding of cables and electronics that must leave many other engineers very frustrated.
I can see myself ending up with a set of Black Diamond everything…
Long live TQ.”
– Brian Elwell, Recording Studio owner, France