Black Diamond XLR Cable
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Black Diamond XLR Cable
The Black Diamond XLR are Tellurium Q in a cable. The Black Diamond XLR uses our own TeCu connector and is the most natural sounding cable in the range, which is saying something.
Performance Profile
Blue Family
Warm and forgiving for systems with a slight edge or for those who like a more smooth laid back presentation. Blue and Ultra Blue are especially good for AV and home cinema.
Black Family
Smooth, fine detailed and great resolution while actually reducing apparent harshness. Music is presented as a coherent, organic whole, with a jaw-dropping sense of realism and naturalness.
Silver Family
Totally uncoloured, acting as a wide open channel sounding unforced, vivid and dynamic with phenomenal resolution, transparency and natural tonal colours. All this while sounding extremely analog and coherent, from the exceptional top end extension to bottom with finely detailed, separated bass notes.
Reviews and User Comments
“Tellurium Q Statements are no usual cable affair and if I’ve called the Silver Diamonds an Emotional Tour de Force what are then the Tellurium Q Statements!? Well, they certainly transcend any typical labeling and this time I’m elevating them on the throne, that they clearly deserve. Their stand out, extraordinary performance can only be recognized with the 2018 Editor Choice Award!”
– Matej Isak, Mono & Stereo
“The Statement II links helped to bring an ever greater sense of ease and relaxation to the music… I know it’s not one thing, it’s many, likely small things that all add up to producing the greater whole, a set of HiFi cables that clearly outperform the exceptionally good originals in all key areas of producing technically better sound, what Geoff calls a more natural sound.”
– Terry Ellis, Pursuit Perfect System
“… it also means that my cables have been blocking the sound and distorting the stage, whether I knew it or not. When the Tellurium Q Statement II cable was inserted, the stage became much more open and it felt more like listening at the scene…. but what is clear is that I have now decided to ‘break up’ with existing cables, especially speaker cables. We recommend serious listening to enthusiasts.”
Some more snippets from the review:
“Another unexpected result is that the resolution has increased as if the source device has been changed. …
This time, by adding an additional Statement II XLR interconnect cable the particles become softer and the front and back layers of the instruments unfold three-dimensionally. Most changes related to the stage were captured, but vocal overtones and studio reverberations were observed more clearly. The expression “hearing a sound that you couldn’t hear” is used in situations like this….
When I revert back to my [own] speaker cable and XLR interconnect, the particles become relatively coarse and the stage becomes flat…
There is not a single corner that is glossed over. It is truly a world of 4K UHD HDR, with no color bleeding. It seems like the music source has been completely changed.
…when the Statement II speaker cable was inserted, the scale of the orchestra grew at once. The texture of the organ also becomes more vivid. In the highlight section around 1 minute and 12 seconds, all the notes of the orchestra rush in like a tidal wave. These are notes that have been pressed down very tightly. The organ in the background looks like a huge rock wall. The scale, majesty, authority, force, and the impression of the song itself have changed.”
– Kim Pyeon Audio Columnist, hificlub.co.kr
“It is difficult to think about any type of product that has that big an impact on my review system ever let alone in the last year.”
– Terry Ellis, Pursuit Perfect System
“…. a bit like upgrading an amplifier or speaker….It is extremely meticulous, high-density texture, and has strong analytical power.”
– HiendTower.com
“It was at this point I started to consider the magnitude of the achievement by Tellurium Q, they have developed a cable range that is the best I have heard so far, by far, actually very far.”
– Terry Ellis, Pursuit Perfect System
“What on Earth did Tellurium Q do to make the music much more moving?… finally I have to admit the magic power of Statement [II].
After switching to the speaker and signal lines [XLR] of the Statement II, I replayed this album again. My wife suddenly asked me what I had changed (she was used to the test of playing acoustic equipment at home). She said that those songs were better than before… Oh!! If I have the financial resources, I should leave the Statement II.”
– Kelvin, Audiotechnique
“Tellurium Q cables have found their way onto the market and into the homes of some of the world’s most discerning customers for several reasons. First and foremost, they take music to realms that were not possible at their price point.
The Statement II version has a subliminal potency that punctures deeper into the realms of music, unfolding new details and bringing everything down to an impressive level of quietness and transparency. Added to this is a newfound dynamic scope that allows the music to unfurl with greater dynamism from the quietest passages to the thundering crescendos. The Tellurium Q Statement MK2 delivers a level of micro- and macro-dynamics that far exceeds what I expected for this upgrade.
There’s currently no shortage of high-quality, high-performance audio cables, and Tellurium Q delivers one of the most enticing options in terms of performance and price with the new, updated MK2 versions of the Statement cable line.”
– Matej Isak, Mono and Stereo
“It is even possible that this is the most absent-in-the-path speaker cable I have ever encountered.
The British interconnect introduces practically no modifications in terms of tonal balance or sound timbre, and its presence in the system is revealed only by such aspects as microdynamics, transparency, speed and – once again – a wonderful, three-dimensional, perfectly organized space in which each source is clearly defined, has sharp shapes and is, one might say, firmly anchored in its place. In my opinion, the neutrality and stereophony of the Tellurium Q flagships are beyond question.
The cables somehow magically interact with each other, enhancing each other’s best features and improving the sound quality much more efficiently than when we check them separately.
And this is what makes Statement II the perfect, dream, and destination cable for many audiophiles. This is a dream come true and soothes the senses for those who are looking only for the truth about music, and for whom all other high-end cables were “too bad” – bringing many benefits, at the same time, they interfered too much with the sound. In other words, the search is over, at least when it comes to cabling.
If you have a suitably advanced system and you have changed cables many times, each time gaining something and losing something else, and at some point you started to wonder how such a set would sound with cables that are not there, which are inaudible, completely transparent, the solution to this puzzle is it’s waiting right here.”
– Tomasz Karasiński, Stereolife
“I then compared the Statement and Statement II speaker cables and interestingly the difference between them was very similar to the balanced cable’s difference, so similar in fact I would just be writing almost the same words and that makes no sense. The main significant extra difference I noticed was in the treble clarity and refinement being noticeably clearer, more energetic and livelier and better resolved from the Statement original speaker cables.”
– Terry Ellis, Pursuit Perfect System
“But this highlights the great difference about Tellurium Q Statement II; when you put it up against other cables – including its predecessor – the other cables sound like they are imposing their own characteristics on the sound.
Tellurium Q Statement was a revelation prising open the sound of your music in a way you might not have thought possible before. And if you liked what Statement did, Statement II does it better.
The revealing quality of the cable doesn’t come with a harsh edge. It shows what your system does, but it doesn’t push you to change that system.
If you have Statement, should you buy Statement II. Normally, this is time for some fence sitting, but here it’s an emphatic ‘yes’!”
– Alan Sircom, HiFi Plus magazine
“There is still that sense of naturalness to the sound as with the Statement 1s, but even more so in some way…can something be “more natural”, I don’t know and perhaps my choice of words is not correct. Perhaps a better way of describing the sound is from a sensory/reactionary aspect and what I would say is that the Statement 2s allow you to fall into the musical performance more easily and more rapidly than with the 1s. There’s a sound at 1 minute 37 seconds on I’m Always Touched By Presence that was much more apparent with the 2s than it was with the 1s.
The handful of words I would use to describe the Statement 2 cables from Tellurium Q is more detailed than the originals but without that detail being pushed down your throat, but with the same speed and sense of rightness..”
– Stuart Smith, HiFi Pig
| Family | Product Code | Name / Performance Level | Price Per Set |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statement | ST-II-XLR | Statement | £5,934.85 /set |
| Silver | SD-XLR | Silver Diamond | £2,881.42 /set |
| Black | BD-XLR | Black Diamond | £1,606.95 /set |
| Silver | US-II-XLR | Ultra Silver | £1,226.60 /set |
| Black | UB-II-XLR | Ultra Black | £684.79 /set |
| Silver | SL-III-XLR | Silver | £570.02 /set |
| Black | BK-II-XLR | Black | £453.81 /set |
| Blue | BU-II-XLR | Blue | £293.32 /set |
