“These Ultra Silver II cables will depend on your budget, listening preferences, and your system. If you want premium, unrestricted delivery of everything in the waveform, these cables could be the system upgrade you’re after. They are an upgrade if you consider the comparative costs of updating, say, a DAC, a server, or a streamer.”
– Simon Wilce, HFMS
“Comparing the old and the new is interesting. It shows how far Tellurium Q have come in the intervening years….
But once you hear it, you will crave the sweeping change.
Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II has that perfect high-end coupling of top-end expressiveness without sounding shrill or thin, but with full deep and full bass and a midrange that is always extremely musical. The cables ‘shimmer’ in all the right ways; the rolling off of a reverb tail is rendered perfectly through these cables. Voices are expressive and natural.
They manage a careful balancing act throughout; playing high frequencies that are filigree to the point of fracture without a problem.
If Tellurium Q had kept the Ultra Silver in the range, introduced Ultra Silver II as ‘Hyper Silver’ and charged half as much again, no one would have batted an eyelid in complaint. That’s how improved this is over its predecessor….
You could spend twice as much and not get as good sound.”
– Alan Sircom, HiFi Plus Magazine
“Compared with the original Ultra Silver, the Ultra Silver II revealed another layer of complexity to the already well-established and intricate reproduction of the recording.
…the Ultra Silver II creates an emotion-driven experience unlike many of its peers…. the Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II doesn’t need much explanation when inserted into an audio system, as its impact is instantly recognizable, even to an untrained ear…
There’s something extraordinary, a familiar cohesiveness that runs throughout the Tellurium Q portfolio. The music comes together naturally, without restriction on flow or hindrance to its rawness…
In context, the Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II cables are exceptionally brilliant for the money, entirely focused on the singular joy of connecting with the music. They enable a rare, engaging experience that draws the listener into a state-of-the-art, high-resolution, fatigue-free interaction with the source material.”
– Mono & Stereo
“As an ex-BBC sound engineer I want to hear the music or speech in its purity, not coloured at all by cabling or any electronics…
“If the music can sound incredibly real even away from the sweet-spot then it must be special….
..,it actually gave me more of the music to enjoy, like switching your 1080p TV channel to a 4K film gives you more detail. It allowed me to fully appreciate the KT88 valves in my power amp and the new capacitors in my rebuilt Ferrograph Logic 7. Putting on Elles Springs ‘Reveal’ album from Vertere’s label on my Krell KPS20i CD player made me surprised at just how good this machine is. The music was clean and precise yet still very musical, and a definite improvement on the original Ultra Silver in terms of timing and extension of frequencies
Now on my aged Chartwell BBC LS3/5a and Slee monoblocks the detail from these speakers was more than I had heard in the past, and even that bass extension down to a bottom G (49Hz) on the guitar was clearly audible and took me by surprise…these speakers were only designed for speech and mobile recording vans. The loudspeaker cable seemed to get more detail out of the music…
…Whilst very natural, they were incredibly vivid and unexpectedly gave me more out of the loudspeaker than I thought possible.
That said, even using my “cheap” Slee/Technics SL-Q2/Ortofon/LS3/5a set up showed just what is possible from your HiFi.”
– Janine Elliot, HiFi Pig
“…the Ultra Silver II loudspeaker cable clearly more revealing, particularly in the bass/sub bass and vocal midrange; I’m just getting more; this is reassuring on two levels, firstly the KEFs are still good enough, and secondly, I can hear it.
I get a more significant draft of air in the room through the loudspeaker, a larger part of this is a function of the amplifier, but the cable feels like it is enabling the current flow to the driver. How do I ‘feel’ this? It is just evident. The dynamic choral jump in Mitski’s Bug Like an Angel (Qobuz FLAC 24 bit, 96kHz) at 52” jumps out from the loudspeakers; there’s a clarity in this song that is captivating, engaging and addictive.”
– Simon Wilce, Hifi and Music Source
“I hear from readers from time to time, who remain convinced that when I write about cables I am confusing different with better. I envy them in some ways, because they will save themselves a small fortune by sticking to whatever choices they made when assembling their systems. Unfortunately I hear not only differences but improvements with some cable changes and I can only report that in all honesty, the Tellurium Q Ultra Silver IIs are the best loudspeaker cables I have yet encountered in my own system.
These weeks with Ultra Silver IIs have been an absolute treat, and have shown me how much more I could get from my existing components if I could make this upgrade permanent.”
– Chris Kelly, The Ear
“There was more time to take in the pure music.” Overall the TQ Ultra Silver IIs gave a very clean and neutral performance adding nothing to the original sound, which is what you want from a cable.”
– HiFi Pig Awards Edition 2024
“You could spend twice as much and not get as good a sound.”
– HiFi Plus Awards Edition 2025
“Tellurium Q’s Ultra Silver II cables are more than simply the latest version of what came before. Both the new interconnect and speaker cables deliver more detail and clarity, thanks to their impressively translucent sound. This disappearing trick should be the aim of any high-end manufacturer, and TQ has certainly pulled it off here.”
– Jay Garrett, Stereonet
“Tellurium Q is a real phenomenon not only in the world of audiophile cables, but in the hi-fi industry in general.
..please tell me when was the last time you came across cables that have a positive effect on the clarity of the sound, allow you to pick out a lot of little tidbits from your favorite recordings, and allow you to more accurately follow what is happening in front of you events, in an extremely clear, sometimes even uncompromising way, order the stereophonic scene, but they do not make the bass shallow, do not boost or sharpen the high tones, do not shift the tonal balance up in the slightest, maintaining perfect linearity, neutrality, richness of colors, and at first they make even the impression of playing nice, warm and pleasant? Never? I was lucky to come across such cables only a few times in my life…The cables you see in the photos are also such white crows [Ultra Silver II cables]
It’s true that I was supposed to stop spending money on equipment, but something tells me that these cables may become a cult product in the future – one that we will look for at auctions, come across empty links and kick ourselves for not being tempted when we still had a chance. I would highly recommend!”
– Tomasz Karasińsk, Stereolife
Stereonet | Applause Award
HiFi Plus | Editors Choice 2026
The Ear | Five Stars
The Audiophile Man | Deeply Groovy
HiFi and Music Source | Best of 2025
Stereonet | Product of the Year 2025
HiFi Plus | Best Loudspeaker Cable 2025
HiFi Pig | Pick of 2024
Mono & Stereo | Best of 2024
The Ear | Best of 2024
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