PFO Review - Elation!

"... Meanwhile, the Elations will become my new high-end interconnect, loudspeaker, and AC cable reference. Based on comparisons in my number one reference system and drop-in comparisons in many other reference systems with Odin, Zero, Prime, Select, and more as references, I am now prepared to elevate the new and quite phenomenal Kubala-Sosna Elation Interconnects, Speaker Cables, and AC Cords to State of the Art.

When used throughout an entire system, they are unsurpassed in my experience. When used in conjunction with other top cables, they most often improve the performance of that system in significant ways. We can be happy that they are not only one of the best, but also the least expensive in their supreme category. That's some kind of progress. My congratulations to Kubala-Sosna and their design team for elevating my listening experience to new celestial heights of realism with the Elation. Recommended reproduction of their music where cost is no object."

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Mike Valentine Review - Elation!

"Every aspect of every track we played was improved when using the “Elation” cables. The non scientific reaction for everyone who listened – was a huge smile! Certainly, the cables brought “Elation” to the wide variety of people who listened during all my sessions. One day, our DHL delivery driver dropping round a parcel, was made to sit and have a quick comparative listen. Same reaction, big smile followed by 'what have you done?'”

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PFO Review - Emotion

"The Kubala-Sosna Emotion interconnects connected me to the music
like no other interconnects I've heard, at anywhere near the price. Their
mids and highs are rhythmic and harmonic extensions of their gorgeous
bass and midbass, with alive, reach-out-and-touch-it definition. Their
midbass is trend setting and state-of-the-art, forming the basis of an
extraordinarily accurate and realistic musical event. It's hard to believe I
am just talking about interconnects, but the Emotions are system-
transforming, and they involved me in the music like never before. The
Emotion loudspeaker cables are equally superb, and even more
neutral, with no identifiable sonic fingerprint. I also found the Emotion's
ultra-low-impedance design superb when applied to the AES/EBU
digital connection. The Emotion power cords are as winning as the
interconnects, and consistent top performers. If you love music as
much as I do, and want the very best cables available, I suggest that
you listen to the Emotions. Joe Kubala and Howard Sosna are
audiophiles and music lovers who have taken connectivity to the next
level. The Kubala-Sosna Emotions receive my top recommendation in
their price range, where they are THE best of class."

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PFO Review - Expression

"Contextually, I found myself reluctant to find the cables worth their entry price, and they remain a product of the domain of the well heeled or at least those that save well. And, in these times, it's hard to argue for expensive gear. While I really dislike that power cords, interconnects, and speaker cables are so expensive, in this case they made a large difference. I surrender my prejudice and line of reasoning. If it takes expensive cables to get the sound my system makes with the Expressions, then that's the price of glory. Highly recommended."

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Inner Ear Review - Fascination

"So – how to truly judge the Fascination line? Based on my auditions, these cables are so good that your really need to give them a try, preferably in a complete system approach."

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PFO's Writer's Choice Awards
Kubala-Sosna Emotion Cables/Power Cords/Digital Interconnects

I won't tell you these are inexpensive or perfect. What I will tell you is they cost what they should cost to perform as closely as possible to the real thing. I think they call this "value" since you can spend a little more and not get much more. On the other hand, you can spend a lot more to get a little more.

The Emotions sit at that high place in the audiophile perfectionist cable universe where the lines of performance and cost intersect. At this point, an entire system wired in Emotion will bring you very close to that harmonious world of seeing, feeling, and hearing into the musical event provided by top notch software on superb playback gear.

In my own experience, it's one of the few brands that actually allows you to fully wire from source to speaker without overshooting at some frequency within the audio spectrum. Once you hear the endless textures the Emotion is capable of ,as well as the openness and airiness of its soundstage, its hard, very hard, to use any other wire.

I have found that sonic sins I've attributed to the Emotions just disappeared when I tried other players, preamps, or tube combinations. I am not really sure what they sound like, other than "not much." What they don't do, and this is important, is subtract critical textural and color cues from the musical source at anywhere near the deleterious level of most other cables I've heard; some being much more expensive.

System after system wired in Kubala-Sosna Emotions, including my own, just sound more alive and involving. Acoustic "unsweetened" recordings sound honest and right with the Emotions. Even Kimber's Isomike SACD beauties, sorry Ray, sound more convincing and "in the room" with the Emotions. The same goes for the power cords and the digital cables. Try the AES/EBU Emotion interconnect.

This is reliable, predictable, unfailingly musical stuff. I believe that it costs what it needs to cost to achieve this level of musical excellence. The entire Kubala-Sosna Emotion suite of wires receives my 2007 Reviewers Choice Award.

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PFO's Writer's Choice Awards
Kubala-Sosna Emotion speaker cables

Only pure carbon van den Hul speaker cables approach the musical authority of these expensive heavy gauge twisted cable behemoths. The Emotion's blue cloth exterior is unique and deceptively modest in appearance. More unique yet is the commanding sonic "rightness" of these cables, which quite literally may express the state of the art in current speaker cable design. Once into harness, these wires are likely to remain, even as front-end gear and speakers shuttle in and out of a high performance system. www.kubala-sosna.com

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