[About the audiopro Image11]
Prologue｜Part 1｜Part 2｜Part 3｜Re-release
Ordinarily, prioritising musicality over sound quality, I use the SPACE&TIME speaker cable Omuni 8N with the AUDIOPRO Image11 — but as the next upgrade after the insulators, I decided to take on AET‘s speaker cable, the 6N14G.
Oh! This might actually be good right from the start! A domestically made speaker cable that has let me down time and again, and a cheap one at that. The look of it is rather cheap, and honestly I had almost no expectations whatsoever — yet it sounds considerably more resolving and clean than I had imagined. The sound quality is transparent and neutral. It has a different character from the lush, singing quality that makes affordable foreign speaker cables in this class appealing; there is something restrained and well-composed about it that feels distinctly Japanese, and if I were to put it into words, the refreshing sense of air it conveys — like the morning air on a highland plateau — makes it, I think, a genuinely orthodox-sounding cable that is rare at this price.
The bass presentation is commensurate with the price, and I did not feel any particular appeal in terms of control or forcefulness — but thinking of it as a speaker cable for small speakers, this level of bass is probably the right balance. It works well with the original AUDIOPRO Image11, and with Ippinkan’s AIRBOW IMAGE11/Kai it further reinforces the direction of improvement already achieved with the WOOD-BOY, creating a synergistic effect that strips away colouration from the overall sound while sharpening the clean tendency further, working in a direction that raises the overall refinement of the sound.
At the very least, among low-priced speaker cables that tend to roll around in all sorts of characters with sound quality as an afterthought, this level of refinement and freedom from sonic colouration means it can be recommended for reference use as well ···as a baseline for setting up your system. And at 1,200 yen per metre, for anyone looking for an affordable cable but unsure which to choose — or who hasn’t yet settled on their preferred sound quality or direction — or who simply doesn’t want to be at the mercy of a cable’s character, there is nothing to lose in trying a pair of AET 6N14G as a starting point. It is a stranded cable, yet it produces quite clean highs and a pleasing sense of resonance, so it should suit surround satellite speakers well. Also, the sample I borrowed for audition had been crimped with Y-lug terminals — and with this kind of multi-strand cable, it is advisable not to connect bare wire but to finish the ends properly. Using high-quality pure copper Y-lugs reduces the slight blurring that stranded wire can introduce, and also helps prevent the dry, parched sound that can develop with age. In terms of sound quality, silver-plated or rhodium-plated Y-lugs feel like they would suit this cable rather better than gold-plated ones.
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[About the audiopro Image11]
Prologue｜Part 1｜Part 2｜Part 3｜Re-release
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