Cable Asylum: REVIEW: Simply Physics Argento Volto Interconnect Cable by vickgeo@live.com

Model:	Argento Volto Interconnect
Category:	Cable
Suggested Retail Price:	$39.95 pair
Description:	3 ft precision copper/silver interconnect
Manufacturer URL:	Simply Physics
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Review by vickgeo@live.com on March 13, 2011 at 13:27:37
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for the Argento Volto Interconnect

I will admit to being a cable junkie. For more than 50 years I have been buying them, connecting them, listening to them, trading them , and selling them. Always, I have sought the holy grail, the seemingly impossible dream: dirt cheap cables that sound as good as the expensive,mortgage-your-home, esoteric stuff I read about and have been able to hear at audio shows.
I now think I have found what have been looking for all these years, at least with regard to interconnects: Rick Roberts' Simply Physics Volta Interconnects. They are a uniquely constructed silver/copper interconnect that, in my system, approaches perfection: ultra-clean, hugh image precisely presented, unrestricted dynamics. All the goodies.
How good are they? They have replaced my two pairs of $500 a pair Stereo Knight X-Bal ICs, which were the best I had ever heard in my demanding system. Oh yes, what did I pay for them? Try $39.95 a pair, and pretend you paid a few hundred times that.

Product Weakness:	Will make bad CDs sound even worse
Product Strengths:	Clean, extended, beatiful imaging and transparency. Very dynamic.<br>Extraordinarily low price and terrific communication from maker Rick Roberts, in addition to all the features described above.

Associated Equipment for this Review:

Amplifier: Wyred4Sound ST-500
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): Stereo Knight Silverstone B&R
Sources (CDP/Turntable): Cambridge 840C cdp
Speakers: Mark&Daniel Diamond+, 2 REL T3 subs
Cables/Interconnects: Oyaide Tunami power, Oyaide Across speaker, Simply Physics ICs
Music Used (Genre/Selections): classical, jazz
Room Size (LxWxH): 15 x 11 x 8
Room Comments/Treatments: Room Tunes, acoustic foam
Time Period/Length of Audition: 3 mos.
Other (Power Conditioner etc.): BPT, Quantum Symphony
Type of Audition/Review: Product Owner

Amplifier:	Wyred4Sound ST-500
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated):	Stereo Knight Silverstone B&R
Sources (CDP/Turntable):	Cambridge 840C cdp
Speakers:	Mark&Daniel Diamond+, 2 REL T3 subs
Cables/Interconnects:	Oyaide Tunami power, Oyaide Across speaker, Simply Physics ICs
Music Used (Genre/Selections):	classical, jazz
Room Size (LxWxH):	15 x 11 x 8
Room Comments/Treatments:	Room Tunes, acoustic foam
Time Period/Length of Audition:	3 mos.
Other (Power Conditioner etc.):	BPT, Quantum Symphony
Type of Audition/Review:	Product Owner