The Grand Reference loudspeaker cable is the best loudspeaker cable in Kharma’ Reference program and is based on large pure silver-gold conductors. These pure silver-gold conductors are made of very pure silver with a small injection of 24k gold. The quality of this silver-gold metallurgy is unchallenged. Also do silver-gold conductors improve over time, where copper conductors degrade over time.

The conductors are treated with the Advanced Core Treatment 1.0 (ACT-1.0) and the insulator is carefully picked, so the pure silver-gold conductors and the insulator make a perfect match. Besides a massive vibration isolating tubing reduces structure born and air-born-vibrations to a minimum before reaching the pure silver-gold conductors. This cable is terminated with special high quality pure silver-gold Kharma spades, realizing a high-quality one-material conductor-termination-circuit.

All this leads to a clear and very powerful revealing cable, with lots of definition, superb resolution, enormous dynamics, sweetness, air and an open and wide stereo image.

Rounding out the audiophile report card, the GR wires are unfailingly warm and sweet sounding. Tonal balance is grounded solidly in the mid-range, neither dark nor light. As you would expect, the treble is effortless, grainless, very extended, and also special in that it is soft edged and slightly diffuse. Most wires become too focused and pointy in the highs as the frequency and/or dB level increases, changing character and giving an impression of increasing coarseness and stridency. The GR treble never assaults you. This is one reason why images on the expansive soundstage breathe and are fluid in a natural way, not locked tightly in focus. As far as perspective goes, the GR wires situate you in a comfortable mid-orchestra seat.