I am sure many of you have heard about MIT cables. A company founded by Bruce Brisson back in 1984.
Among the multiple technologies developed by MIT you will find the “Multipole of Articulation” named after the fact that every audio cable has a single point where it is most efficient at storing and transporting energy. At this point in the audio frequency spectrum, the cable will articulate best, and represents the cables’ particular Articulation Pole.
This technology is used in their new line of headphones cables and adapters called Vero currently in the shipping process for all the Indiegogo backers.
As part of the Vero line there is a new product on development that will be launch in an Indiegogo campaign probably soon. This new product is the Vero HC-AB-29 (High Current- A/B class-29 articulation poles) battery powered amplifier. I saw and tested a prototype of this amplifier during the 2015 RMAF.
The amplifier is co-designed by Bruce Brisson and Aaron Reiff who at a point of time was the Chief Engineer at Skywalker Sound.
The unit was still in prototype phase so I will not spend much time describing its physical characteristics but I can tell you it has 1/4” 3.5mm and 4 pin XLR outputs and it has an aluminum case roughly (by memory) 9”-8” by 6”-7” by 2”-3”.
I auditioned it using my AK240 DAP as source and a pair of Audeze LCD-XC with a Vero cable. The first thing that impressed me was the floor noise or actually the lack of. I think I can attribute the totally black background to the fact of being battery powered. This characteristic allows for every single note to be coming out from nowhere and perfectly clear and defined. Every single instrument and voice was placed in its own space with great separation and air in between them providing a very holographic presentation.
I am a very big Fleetwood Mac fan so immediately went to some of my favorite recordings to try it. One of my favorite tracks is Landslide from the 1980 Fleetwood Mac double live album. In this track Stevie’s voice is so beautiful, smooth and with so much textured. At the beginning of the song Stevie dedicates the song and in many systems I have heard is difficult to understand her because is in a very low voice. With the Vero amplifier and cable it was very clear when she said “ I want to dedicate this very old song to you London because you are very special to us, it’s call Landslide”. The tone and texture of her voice was so beautiful that I even got goose bumps. After that romantic moment with Stevie (I wish! Ha ha ha) I went to a less popular song but with an amazing guitar work from Lindsay Buckingham. It is the title track of the album Tango In The Night (If you have not listen to this song please try it). With this song the experience was totally different. It went from the cozy and romantic presentation in Landslide to a totally surround presentation in Tango In the Night which I have never experience before in any system (and to be honest my speaker systems and headphones systems are not a slouch). There were notes and sounds coming from all around me, it was spooky beautiful! The level of detail, musicality and ambiance was something I don’t remember experiencing from headphones before.
I don’t know if what I heard was because of the amplifier being powered by battery, the 29 articulation poles in the amplifier, the Vero cable with its articulation poles or the combination of all of the above (which is my guess) but what I heard was something I had not experienced before and I liked it, a lot!
I am waiting to receive my order of Vero reference cables and adapters and as soon as the campaign opens for the amplifier I will jump in it.
Among the multiple technologies developed by MIT you will find the “Multipole of Articulation” named after the fact that every audio cable has a single point where it is most efficient at storing and transporting energy. At this point in the audio frequency spectrum, the cable will articulate best, and represents the cables’ particular Articulation Pole.
This technology is used in their new line of headphones cables and adapters called Vero currently in the shipping process for all the Indiegogo backers.
As part of the Vero line there is a new product on development that will be launch in an Indiegogo campaign probably soon. This new product is the Vero HC-AB-29 (High Current- A/B class-29 articulation poles) battery powered amplifier. I saw and tested a prototype of this amplifier during the 2015 RMAF.
The amplifier is co-designed by Bruce Brisson and Aaron Reiff who at a point of time was the Chief Engineer at Skywalker Sound.
The unit was still in prototype phase so I will not spend much time describing its physical characteristics but I can tell you it has 1/4” 3.5mm and 4 pin XLR outputs and it has an aluminum case roughly (by memory) 9”-8” by 6”-7” by 2”-3”.
I auditioned it using my AK240 DAP as source and a pair of Audeze LCD-XC with a Vero cable. The first thing that impressed me was the floor noise or actually the lack of. I think I can attribute the totally black background to the fact of being battery powered. This characteristic allows for every single note to be coming out from nowhere and perfectly clear and defined. Every single instrument and voice was placed in its own space with great separation and air in between them providing a very holographic presentation.
I am a very big Fleetwood Mac fan so immediately went to some of my favorite recordings to try it. One of my favorite tracks is Landslide from the 1980 Fleetwood Mac double live album. In this track Stevie’s voice is so beautiful, smooth and with so much textured. At the beginning of the song Stevie dedicates the song and in many systems I have heard is difficult to understand her because is in a very low voice. With the Vero amplifier and cable it was very clear when she said “ I want to dedicate this very old song to you London because you are very special to us, it’s call Landslide”. The tone and texture of her voice was so beautiful that I even got goose bumps. After that romantic moment with Stevie (I wish! Ha ha ha) I went to a less popular song but with an amazing guitar work from Lindsay Buckingham. It is the title track of the album Tango In The Night (If you have not listen to this song please try it). With this song the experience was totally different. It went from the cozy and romantic presentation in Landslide to a totally surround presentation in Tango In the Night which I have never experience before in any system (and to be honest my speaker systems and headphones systems are not a slouch). There were notes and sounds coming from all around me, it was spooky beautiful! The level of detail, musicality and ambiance was something I don’t remember experiencing from headphones before.
I don’t know if what I heard was because of the amplifier being powered by battery, the 29 articulation poles in the amplifier, the Vero cable with its articulation poles or the combination of all of the above (which is my guess) but what I heard was something I had not experienced before and I liked it, a lot!
I am waiting to receive my order of Vero reference cables and adapters and as soon as the campaign opens for the amplifier I will jump in it.
