Curtail Cable Crankiness

No matter what the reason, there’s a certain group of audio enthusiasts who always bristle at spending more than a pittance on cables, regardless of the system’s price. Here’s a great solution from Vera-Fi Audio: Their new Ranger line of cables.

Is this reason enough to sell your $70k Odin 2s on Audiogon and buy a nice vintage Alfa Romeo GTV with the proceeds? Maybe. Got your attention?

While we didn’t conduct a shootout with a five-figure pair of Nordost cables, comparing these to budget cables from Blue Jeans, Tributaries, and Clarus that we do have on hand, the Ranger cables reveal more musical information. They are not harsh or etched in any way. $79 buys you a well-executed pair of interconnect cables, delivering more performance than what you’ll find at Best Buy or Amazon that is similarly priced. (We compared that too)

Vera-Fi says that they will soon have a phono cable as well as speaker and power cables to round out the lineup. We’ll report back as soon as we have samples. For now, we’re ordering a 6M pair to go from the three tape decks plugged into our Manley Skipjack.

Cable choice is a quicksand that plagues more than beginning audio lovers. If you’re starting from the beginning, a loom of these cables will get you rolling and on a great path. And if you’ve been shopping for a sports car on Bring A Trailer and need some extra dough…

Just sayin.

You can find them here, at Vera-Fi’s site…