The construction and manufacture of the cable are of an excellent standard. The materials are of good quality. The choice of colours is attractive. The connectors are solid and easy to use to connect the speakers to the amplifier. The packaging is robust and adequate. Nothing to report in this area.
The tests were carried out over several listening sessions. Some with frequent changes of listening to the same tracks, others lasting longer, even several days before replacing the cable with the reference. I wanted to use all the time available to make sure I got the character of the Dedalus.
For the listening tests I used only very good recordings, both in analogue and digital formats. Mainly female jazz vocals and jazz quartets as well as historical classical recordings. This is the music I normally listen to. Diana Krall, Patricia Barber, Sara K, but also Sade and Jacintha for vocals. Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Art Pepper for jazz. Historical RCA Living Stereo and Mercury recordings for classical.
Did you find any?
The insertion of Dedalus is immediate from the very first moment. And this is not always a good start... The scene, the soundstage is very wide both in lateral sense and in depth. The high range is very present, but clear and terse, cold, in short. Voices are rich of harmonics and in focus but lose in body and depth in comparison with the reference. They are made smaller than the reference. The bass range is very controlled and especially fast. Extended and deep, but lacking in energy and warmth, too dry in the mid-bass and this characteristic is what takes away warmth from the reproduction. In prolonged sessions and at important levels, the listening fatigue makes itself felt.
In summary: cold high range, voices without body (but strangely rich in nickel and dim sum), low range without strength. A review that doesn't tempt you to buy. Reviewing a cable by listening to the best recordings available and not the music you listen to every day is the best way to not understand what a "good cable" is. But this is an old story between audiophiles who listen to the system and musicphiles who listen to the music.
Hi Vincenzo, for transparency we publish all reviews, even the most critical ones. We are absolutely sure that there is no perfect product in the world, that 100% of the people like it and that it fits well in every system, that's why we offer the Satisfaction or Money Back Guarantee. As for the review method of only considering the best recordings, we agree with you, you should listen to multiple sources and various formats of music (vinyl, CD, liquid music, streamer, etc.), as well as various genres. Also, this review uses isodynamic speakers, which are very unusual and if asked, we would have recommended something else.
Thanks for your reply, Question; for isodynamics what would you have recommended?
Good morning Vincenzo, definitely Invictus.