Sigma v2 Interconnects & Speaker Cables Review by The Audio Beat
Great review of Shunyata Research’s Sigma V2 interconnects and speaker cables by Marc Mickelson. We’ve pulled out some of the highlights below, but be sure to read the full review here over at The Audio Beat!
“The Sigma v2 cables were sonically invisible in the very best sense, displaying the inherent nature of the equipment and presenting the music with an obvious sense of calm and quietude. Some cables, even those that are considered to be in the first rank, overlay the music with their own personality, which may be significant or minor in effect. Not the Sigma v2 cables, which were like air or water — a neutral substrate for whatever equipment they connected and the signal passing through them. And because they were the one constant with all of the equipment I mention, they were as responsible for the sound produced (and described in my reviews) as the products themselves.”
“Caelin and Grant know their audience well -- audiophiles just like them -- and this informs so much of their work and the products that Shunyata produces. As an audiophile, I trust guys like them, because they are guys like me.”
“Sigma v2 were by no small measure the most poised audio cables I've used. There was an eerie blackness from which each instrument or singer emerged. They were utterly pure, composed, neutral conduits of the music, allowing it to flow with natural pacing and dynamics along with full-color tonality. They also expertly conveyed the spatial information and recording cues of each recording, the things that define the sonic thumbprint.”
“The Sigma v2 cables were sonically invisible in the very best sense, displaying the inherent nature of the equipment and presenting the music with an obvious sense of calm and quietude.”
“They're surely too inexpensive to compete with the platinum-priced offerings from other companies, so the thinking goes, and therefore don't belong a system costing as much as a luxury house, or two even. Nonsense.”