Tellurium Q® Reviews
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- Black Tone Arm Cable1
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- Statement RCA Cable17
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- Statement Tone Arm Cable6
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- Ultra Silver Digital RCA Cable5
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- Ultra Silver RCA Cable8
- Ultra Silver Speaker Cable18
- Ultra Silver USB Cable3
- Ultra Silver XLR Cable6
“This is a sign that we are dealing with something exceptional in the audio world and the cables prove to be really unique.”
– Wojciech Pacuła, highfidelity.pl
“Its performance is rather remarkable, especially its openness and freedom from smear that bedevils most “starter” level cables. Its sound has has an outstanding clarity and focus, along with a fine transparency and, hence a very natural character on vocals .. Its inclusion in my office system has certainly brightened my working days. Allowing me to hear even more of the music that was previously struggling to reach the speakers.”
– Malcolm Steward, The HiFi Journal
“After about five albums worth of extremely enjoyable listening I removed the Black Diamond from between my Lyngdorf CD2 transport and Lyngdorf TDAI3400 amplifier/DAC and installed the Silver Diamond. From the first moments of listening to One of These Days from Pink Floyd’s Meddle, I was absolutely astonished. The Silver Diamond took my immersion into the music that I know so well to another level completely. This was not a subtle change, a nuanced difference. This was like stepping from the audience onto the recording studio floor.
Of course you may find that one of the less expensive Tellurium Q options is more than adequate (and I can confirm that all the ones I have now heard are admirable performers), in which case buy that and spend the difference on music. On the other hand, you might just find that the £1,200 asking price for the Silver Diamond is in actual fact a bargain, as it takes your musical delight to levels which you thought were beyond your system’s reach, and will be a lot less expensive that changing major components.”
– Chris Kelly, The-Ear.net
“…a degree of coherence, timing and focus distinctly uncommon, in my experience, for this sort of money.”
– Steve Dickenson, HiFi Plus 2010
“I have to say that the Silver II speaker cables have made an astonishing improvement in my system. I’m using a pair of Omega single-driver speakers (95 dB efficient) with an ancient (22 years old) Linn Majik Integrated amp. The Silver II really lets the subtle tonal shading and inner detail that the Majik is capable of shine through. In addition, the improvement in clarity and tonality of the bass has cured my desire for a subwoofer.
Thanks for developing such a wonderful product!”
– Ron Gordon, USA
“I never thought I would ever hear cables superior to the original Statement cables from Tellurium Q but hey, here they are, lying on my floor. The Statement IIs move onwards from the originals but they do so in a progressive manner. They don’t just tweak or nudge the sound quality on by a degree or two, the improvements are noteworthy enough to warrant that Mk.II label. The extra focus and clarity, the improved midrange insight, the enhanced bass power and more.
It’s as if the Statements offer a wider data path to allow more information to be transferred. It’s like most HiFi cabling is 32bit but the Statements are 64bit.”
– Paul Rigby, The Audiophileman
“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
“Tellurium Q’s Silver’s take on this ‘first do no harm’ approach focuses on the midrange clarity and drive. While frequency extension – particularly in the bass – is excellent, the first aspect you notice when listening with Silver is the clarity of voices, the expressiveness of midrange detail and a more pronounced ‘in the room’ energy to the sound. Tellurium Q could be hoist by its own petard here, as it tries to eschew the base notion that cables that use silver conductors sound bright, only then to call its cable ‘Silver’. But this Silver is neither bright nor tarnished.”
– Alan Sircom, HiFi Plus
“outstanding clarity, adding a tremendous sense of balance”
– HiFi World, November 2012
“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
“I would like to write to you to express my sincere gratitude for what your cables have done in my system.
Over time, I have installed Tellurium Q cables step by step throughout the whole chain of my equipment, and each of them has contributed something important. What began as a promising improvement gradually became something much more profound: a transformation of the entire musical presentation.
Thanks to your cables, I have finally been able to achieve in my digital system something I had long considered almost unattainable: a degree of realism, temporal continuity and musical flow that I had previously associated only with vinyl. For the first time in my life, my digital front end sounds truly believable to me, not only in terms of definition or scale, but also in terms of intimacy, coherence and naturalness.
What has impressed me most is that this was not a superficial change. It was structural. The piano changed, the orchestra changed, and above all the coherence of the sound changed. The music now flows in a way that feels natural and convincing, with a continuity that reminds me of vinyl, yet without losing the spaciousness and black background that good digital reproduction can offer.
This had been a long-standing hope of mine, one that I had almost given up on. I had reached a point where I no longer believed that digital sound could fully convince me in this way. Your cables helped me cross that final boundary.
I must also say that I never suspected phase distortion could be so relevant. Only now, after hearing the cumulative effect of addressing it throughout the entire signal path, do I understand how fundamental it is to musical realism.
So I simply wanted to thank you. Your work has allowed me to discover a level of digital playback I had never experienced before.
With gratitude and admiration.”
– Alfredo Guerro, Spain
“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
“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.”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
“The Tellurium Q Black II speaker cables better the original Black in a number of important areas. The first aspect of these differences I noted was a more dynamic presentation. Impactful music, like the “I’m loving this record” Have fun by Smerz, exhibits greater impact from the opening wallop on opener “Worth It”. The degree to which the II convey this improved slam-ability over the Black made me sit up straighter in my red Eames LCW, which in and of itself promotes good posture, and think “Wow!”
– Michael Lavorgna, Audio Stream
“So what the manufacturer described has worked well – now we get better cables for the same money. How can you argue with this? These days, such things don’t happen often. Rather, the tendency is that you have to pay more and more for worse and worse crap, so any act of reverse action deserves praise. Ultra Blue II is another successful product of this brand, and Tellurium Q may add another award to its extensive collection.”
– Tomasz Karasiński, Stereo Life
“The Tellurium Q Black II speaker cable is a great standard of what an available cable should bring to systems.”
– Daniel Brezina, Hi-Fi Voice
“The obvious danger is that the ambitious audiophile will soon want to recable the entire system with Tellurium Q Black Diamond…..Such cables really are the stuff recommendations to close friends are made of.”
– Frank Hakopians, 6 Moons
“Just to let you know, the black diamond cable has now burnt in for about 100 hours using internet radio – what an amazing improvement!
Each day it has made very obvious gains which make you to check all your favourite tracks. It has moved from smoothing off edges to voices, cleaning up some bass hang over and bits more detail popping through to improving all theses things very very significantly. The whole 3D imaging, presentation and realistic feel is now an obvious gain making everything I stream seem much more ‘in the room’.
It is now one of the most significant improvements I have made, I was expecting an improvement but not of this magnitude. Also the improved separation between multiple vocals, the smoothness of some slightly edgy vocals ( such as Celeste or Fraya Ridings) and lovely detailed double bass sounds have been a revelation.”
– K Chesworth, Pembrokeshire
“It offers a very good definition and sound control, greatly differentiates recordings, has a good resolution, and the amount of information, including subtleties that can be heard with it, is surprising, because it is very rare at this price level. The tonal balance is actually neutral, but at the same time it is not a cold sounding cable. Acoustic and vocal recordings show that the naturalness of sound is a big advantage of Silver II.”
– Marek Dyba, HiFi Knights
“During last days I had the possibility to properly evaluate the new Black II speaker cables. When for a very SPECIAL product it comes the time to be updated, I have doubts and tell myself… ” can perfection be bettered?” Well, this is one of the times that I can only say a fully convinced YES! Bettered clarity, focus, general credibility, and a better bass control. The Black II authentically remains a Tellurium Q Black with its unique features of a natural, spacious, fluid, rich, and expressive sound, but bettered. I don’t know how you did it, but you did it! I want to congratulate Mr. Geoff Merrigan and Tellurium Q for the great result.”
– Gerardo Ventura, Play Stereo, Italy
“So, on a whim, I downloaded the Tellurium Q System disc (well the .wav file) and ran through the three tracks. I let the burn in-track play overnight.
Previously my system collapsed most of the music to the center. It was a good party trick as folks would be shocked- it sounded like no music coming from the L/R speakers. Some instruments would be separated, but for the most part everything was smack dab in the center.
After playing through the tracks, everything opened up as the sound stage expanded, instruments were placed across the entire front. There is still the ‘center magic’ but it’s not all just in the middle now. There’s also a sense of depth.
I’m quite shocked. Nothing else changed in my system. Using the same tracks/records before & after. I didn’t play the system loud during the burn in, in fact it was quite low. The gear isn’t new either.
Just thought I’d share as I am pleasantly surprised.”
– Skot Smith, USA
“The Silver was notable for its clarity…it had a firm hand on each frequency area so that each knew its place and stayed there….In effect, you felt that you were getting value from the cable because you could hear more music.
If you’re in the market for high end power cables, you cannot and should not ignore the Silver range from Tellurium Q.”
– Paul Rigby, The Audiophile Man
“I can’t believe how much a set of Tellurium Q wiring can get closer to high-end cables for repeatedly higher sums. One big WOW!”
– Audio-Video, PL
“It is true, these cables are finally perfect. I can connect it to the 15000,-€ Ayon Gyrfalcon or use with the 2000,-€ Amphion Argon 3 and with both I hear the the cables harmonise perfectly with the speakers and shows the strengths of both designs. For me it is no way now to use any other cable for my demos !!”
– Tibor Szegedi, Hungary