Verastarr Grand Illusion AC power cords use high purity copper metal foils and produce a musical presentation that is big, bold, and robust. Not to be clichéd here, but being a copper-based cable, and using lots of copper to address skin effect with its four 2-inch wide foils, music with this cable possessed the clichédly qualities inherent of the better copper-sounding cables: tonally warm and rich, and extended top to bottom—though not necessarily the top-end extension heard in silver-based cables. These are wonderful cables that are not only dead quiet, but flexible and a work of art.

Music with the Grand Illusions was never bight, but never rolled-off or euphonic. The music was just… all there. Right and engaging. Bass had this deep solid presentation that was ever-so captivating. Solidity comes to mind. Sold in terms of something massive and dense. Which is not to say the music was dense lacking space and air, just the opposite. The Grand Illusions are an amazingly good AC cord, letting the music flow through with such an engaging sound. Quiet, dynamic, propulsive, extended… you get it all.