The A23's have been in my system for almost 2 weeks now. Time to post a follow-up of the A23s.
Speaker cables, as with cabling in general, tends to elicit two kins of responses: the first is what I call the "wow" factor and the second, the lack of "wow". How often have I placed new SCs in my system, sit back and exclaim "wow". However, longer term listening makes me question the initial, exuberant "wow" and warts begin to appear, not to mention listener fatigue as well. The A23s certainly don't fall into the first category: in fact, it tends to underwhelm on first impression but spending more time with it makes me realise more and more of its virtues. It is a cable that "grows" on you, very self-effacing at first, and certainly does not seek to impress at all. The A23s are not the most revealing cables that have graced my system, not the kind with laser-sharp imaging that dissects the sonic picture with pin-point accuracy at the expense of making instruments sound, well, like what they really are. A piano sounds like a piano and not a honky tonk piano. You will be able to discern an electric piano from a real piano. Ditto other instruments. It is the most honestly revealing SC that I have heard. I think I am going to like these cables .....
