"Behind a lush tapestry of sound against a dead-quiet background that allows every nuance of sonic texture and detail to literally dance across the holographic expanse of the soundstage. The 35th Anniversary Diamond will allow you to hear the rosin on a violin bow as it slides across the strings, and the resonance of the copper windings as the felt hammers of a grand piano strike the bass strings."

Anyway thats enough from me; you make brilliant products and I’m very glad to join the Purist Audio Design family.

This cable ensures a very good behavior of the audio system which has the consequence of restoring a large amount of information and preserving the homogeneity of this audio system for uncompromising musical happiness. (Translation from French by Google).

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I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and thank you for the magnificent upgrade you have carried out on your HDMI cables. I use your HDMI cables purely for sound/music as I have the Esoteric Grandioso Digital set-up which requires three HDMI cables one for the left, one for the right, and one connecting each mono Dac. I have never heard such an improvement immediately after I installed your cables. I liked the sound before this but now I love it. I had to take pen to paper to express how good I think they are. Thank you!

Diamond Revision sparkles in this setting. It brings a shimmering detail, fine soundstage, and excellent, architectural and stentorian bass to the presentation. It’s also a very big sounding cable, in a good way.

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To jeden z tych kabli, o których można powiedzieć bez zawahania, że jest produktem high-end. Producenci przyzwyczaili nas co prawda, że za 1600 zł możemy dopiero pomarzyć o wstępie do tego ekskluzywnego klubu, ale Purist Audio Design zdaje się nie przejmować barierami cenowymi, oferując kolejny kabel sygnałowy o wprost znakomitej relacji jakości do ceny. W całościowym ujęciu okazał się byc najlepszym kablem w teście, wygrał z pozostałymi na punkty. Nie oznacza to, że jest najlepszy w każdej dziedzinie. W niektórych z nich oddał pola, ale nieznacznie...

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This is one of those cables that you can say without hesitation that it is a high-end product. Manufacturers have accustomed us to the fact that for 1,600 zlotys we can only dream about entering this exclusive club, but Purist Audio Design does not seem to care about the price barriers, offering another signal cable with an excellent value for money. In the whole picture, it turned out to be the best cable in the test, he won with the remaining points. This does not mean that it is the best in any field. In some of them he gave away the fields, but slightly.

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"Although I have found that cables matter to overall sound, I thought ethernet was an exception (bits = bits). The CAT7 cable disproved that theory in a most musical way. And the build quality is excellent. Well worth the price IMHO. Nicely done!"

Your Dominus power cord is FANTASTIC. It brought my amplifier alive.

The entire sound stage was elevated up and back and the dimension of the smallest details were made clear especially in fast and complicated passages.

But beyond this was a speed and separation of the music that really changed my perception of pieces of music I thought I knew. Incredible. Finally, solo piano the way it really sounds with the separation I was also trying so hard to hear yet, there it was!

I have T+A components, SACD and their R series amp bi-wired to my B&W 702 S2s. I have 2 degrees in music and have a trained ear.

After seeing an interview with your founder on YouTube I knew that he makes no compromises. I can hear the proof.

Thanks so much,

Dr. Matthew Deegan, Customer

"Thank you, these are perfect.

I plugged them in and their clarity and depth of soundstage is stunning.

Thank you for the fast turn around as well.

As always, I am very pleased and happy that you could get me into the right cables.

Well, I am looking to lay down and enjoy my new cables...these Hifiman HE1000 SE versions are fantastic, and now connected via Impresa cables.."

Genesis' Purist audio design family of cables has made me test cables again after years. Why? On the one hand, it has become quite quiet around these American cables in Germany and on the other hand, they are in a price range that I like. Both together aroused my interest.

Purist Audio Design is based in Texas and has been manufacturing cables for over 30 years. For the test, we have chosen the second cheapest product line, which is said to have a particularly good price-performance ratio, according to Ms. Barden from the German sales organization WBS Akustik. What does that mean in euros? The Purist Audio Design Genesis loudspeaker cable, available to us for testing, costs 975 euros in a single-wire version of two times three meters in length. The NF cables were available to us in one meter length in cinch and XLR packaging. The cinch version beats with 420 euros, the XLR version with 430 euros. Not cheap, but if you see what is called today at prices for high quality hi-fi cable, but quite moderate.

So, this sound is entirely different.

The only change was the USB cable, from my Lexar 512 SSD to my Amare Diamond Music Player (data leg) and to the Anker Battery (power leg).

First off:

The space and background is definitely quieter, but responsive. Not a flat, muffled background that sucks in sound, but a good feeling, responsive quiet, like it has the ability to flow and spring back with the music. Nice, so very nice.

The strings, ahh the strings, I now have a full pluck, top to bottom strike and the deacy is natural. How did this happen?

I have only heard this at a live event. And the stand up bass has a twang and an edge, with a bit of resin. Very Nice.

The dynamics are much better and the overall tonal balance has the ability to move and react with the flow of the music.

I suppose the best word is “reactive and free dynamics”.

This is amazing. One data cable did this, the 30th Anniversary Purist Audio Dual conduit USB Cable, it really gets me excited when I listen, Dianna Krall really is preforming and the audience is reacting to her and the band....that is new.

This is the very first time I felt Dianna Kralls piano and band have soul and freedom to give that live excitement ...here at home.

Superb.

A while back I purchased by chance a Dominus Power cable by Purist Audio Design. Wow! what a great experience.........that was for my downstairs system.

After much thought I decided to upgrade my stereo cables on my upstairs system which is Coincident Total Victory speakers (200 lbs. each) with their mono amps upgraded with hand made 300 B tubes Takasuki from Japan and a highly modified Cocktail Audio with a separate power source. Being the demanding listener, I went for the Neptune cables and they arrived with separate black and red cables or 4 all together. Never seen that but seems like a great idea. One of them is thicker than my old Coincident cables.

Bascially, could not believe my ears.........these cables are incredibly quick, full of information, with plenty of punch. 1000 shades of dynamics down to the most delicate passages.........the most astonishing thing is the PRESENCE of the music. I was totally involved and wanting to hear more all the time. For example, on the Pat Metheny track " It's for you", the big fat bass seemed almost concentric and finally I could tell that in the back ground Pat was not strumming but doing arppeggios with his pick. Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger was totally different in the velocity of the music and it was like I had never heard it...........great voices................Chick Corea playing with the Steve Gadd band.........spontaneous, fabulous, music..............etc. etc.

Thanks Jim!!

The Dominus Diamond Revision is "...high end extreme"!

...this Purist just has amazing sound. It has depth, clear and normal sounds and voices. Wow! With the Purist HDMI, the picture also is more natural, and neutral, less edgy color and easy on the eyes.

I really love this Purist Audio hdmi, absolutely.

Really, really have found the golden hdmi cable for my system.

"Big, spacious, warmer than leaner... though not in a way that is overly warm or ripe... the Neptune line is a whole lot of fun. Which is what we are hearing when we play music--not only from ourselves, but from many others passing through. You get the resolution and details, but not in an analytical, in your face presentation. Nothing is pushed at you, suggesting that the cables are quite even in terms of frequencies--that is, they are not hyped or rolled-off. There is neither a euphonic coloration or any sense of some anomaly to push this or that on our music. Balanced and musical. Sweet. Warm and musical."

"More detailed, loads of top end detail, cymbals, the drumsticks weight as the hit cymbals, bass has better tone/pitch between notes, bass guitar has an awesome growl/bark, both kick drum and bass are more percussive, hit you in the chest more...guitar is more "in the room" ...These are both very good interconnects, but I think Luminist reveals more information. I heard the bass filling in on the brand new Luminist just in the 1.5 hours. Luminist is better out of the box."

"From the extremely quiet noise floor, small details popped out, percussion from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" came from deep in the soundstage yet seemed clear as a "bell". The power of the full orchestra was easily rendered, and dynamics handled with aplomb. The system expressed detail in a perfect way, not edgy or forward, but with ease and gave the listener a relaxed sense to just listen and have fun."

"Purist Audio Design.... Jim Aud is just an absolutely wonderful person to deal with and over the past fifteen years has always, always, been there for me whenever I had an issue,(which rarely ever happens) a question or just requiring some information."

"These audio cables from Purist Audio Design are not only a fascinating case study in engineering, I think they sound fantastic."

"Sonically, the sheer scale and dynamics of the music in this room was bloody extraordinary. The electronics might have been new to North America, but the effect was "Audio Oasis! Award material" all the way. The sound was effortless, fluid, natural, organic, and had the sort of transparency that I associate with only the finest sort of designs that I've encountered on this planet. Detail without edginess; dynamics without loss of control; full-frequency-range presentation without humps or valleys...I was really gobsmacked by what was happening..."

"...The sound quality was in the top five rooms I visited, bursting with power and grace. “Jazz Variants” performed by the O-zone Percussion Group, had everything tympanic in its proper place and all mallets striking with proper force."

"I never realized how much this device was adding to the sound until I decided to unplug it and just see if it really was doing anything. When I first got it I plugged it in and assumed it was doing something - wow was I was shocked when I unplugged it after a couple of months in use! The sound became diffused and blurry, the texture was now gritty and grainy. It amazed me just how much noise the device was filtering out and how much it improved the sound. How clear the images became, how transparent the soundstage was; truly it was a night and day difference, the value of such tweaks is usually negligible. I don't see this as a tweak anymore, its an essential component for digital playback."

"The bonus is their specific characteristic--they 'release' tension, nervousness from the recordings, allowing everything to sound as it should."

"Just wanted to congratulate you on doing whatever you do to make them so outstanding!! ...With the Sennheiser 800 headphones they make a remarkable improvement. Thank you for such great work...Your AC 25 Anniv Power Cord also made a significant improvement. In each case I thought what I had was already very good!!!!"

We were pleased to make Dave Thomas' "Top Five" list at AXPONA, in 2015!

"Jim Aud...a real gentleman and a maker of very fine cables. Once again, Jim very kindly provided us with cables for our system. As Jim's cables were either hidden behind equipment, or tucked into the corner of the room, they did not get the attention they deserved, compared to the larger and so more eye-catching electronics and loudspeakers. This is a shame, as Purist Audio makes extremely good cables. This is the second time we have used Jim's cables and both times they have allowed the system to breathe and really come alive. Highly recommended."

"Jim Aud is...a founding father of high-end audio."

"After some time I decided to go for the Purist Audio Limited Edition. I live in the Netherlands and the cable had to go back to Purist Audio for 220v use. Jim Aud was very kind to adapt it for 220v use. I was amazed about the quality."

"...the soundstage...retained pintpoint imaging and sweet high frequencies. Bass was fast and taunt, avoiding both bloating and muddying up the lower midrange, resulting in superb clarity."

We were pleased to make it into 3 of Greg Weaver's "Top Five" at AXPONA, in 2015!

"In The Voice That Is room, Purist Audio Design’s Luminist 25th Anniversary ($55,000) cables were mated with Tidal electronics and its new Contriva G2 speakers. With music sourced from the Aurrender W20 Reference music server and Bricasti M1 DAC, and power supplied by the highly effective Silver Circle Audio TCHAIK 6 power conditioner, the finely detailed sound emerged from a very deep soundstage. The room was definitely a candidate for Best of Show."

"Ex-NASA engineer Jim Aud and his team have advanced their thinking, culminating in a reference fluid-shielded cable--the Neptune. It is the newest addition to Purist Audio Design's Luminist Revision series, developed partly in response to customer feedback to make the cables more flexible and user-friendly, while also increasing their performance. The Neptune comes in a four-cable set with positive and negative signals separated. The fluid shields the 7AWG bundle of fine single-crystal-copper strands from RF, EMI, and vibration. The shielding helped produce a huge soundstage with explosive dynamics in a system with Atma-Sphere electronics and Classic Audio loudspeakers."

Our Neptune cables received Best in Show, 2015, along with Classic Audio and Atma-Sphere at the High End show in Munich, Germany!

"Showing with Ralph Karsten’s Atma-Sphere Novacron amps ($19,200/pr.), and the Purist Audio Design Neptune series of cables, there is no denying the synergy. I sat utterly rapt in Stevie Ray Vaughn’s guitar work, and simply have to marvel at the ability John’s speakers have to delve into and release music in one of the most dynamically and harmonically correct presentations you’ll hear."

"The sound in this room was detailed, very transparent, and nicely dynamic. This was done without sacrificing the midrange or musical harmony, which was strikingly well done."

"I found the Tidal/Bricasti room consistently sounding good. The big Bricasti M28 amps, paired with the Bricasti M1 DAC produced a balanced, good sound. I returned to this room three times and each time it sounded great. I'm not sure what was doing what to make it sound so good."

"If I had to characterize the sound of the Purist-cabled analog rig in one word I would say ‘organic’. The whole sonic picture presents a detailed yet ever so slightly warm balance, rendering most recordings very pleasing to the ear. The PAD is open, clear, and slanted slightly toward the mids and bass over treble...in the context of a fine turntable set up, PAD’s Corvus ekes out a level of performance that I’d not otherwise experienced, confirming again that in audio reproduction every part of the chain makes a difference. More worrying, I suppose, is that it’s not even their top cable, so you always wonder what the next one might provide. Leave that thought at the river, grasshopper, and just enjoy what you have here: great sound throughout the full range." (This refers to our Corvus Phono.)

"...excellent price-performance...good cable."

"...[the] new flexible Impressa headphone cable...sounded impressive!"

"These cables are mind blowers in their price range. I think they are stunning in every way. What an upgrade in all ways. I will use this set to run to my bass amp in a biamp setup with panel speakers. I expect better bass and even greater clarity going by the sound of the Aqueous Luminist that I have used as a run from the preamp to the x-over and to the high pass amp.
I will move the older but still great Aqueous Praesto IC to my CD player which will give me a ton of performance there and will move the Elementa Advanced to my FM tuner which should provide stellar performance."

"...very well deserved!"

David noted that the 25th made a noticable difference during his multi-month review of the TIDAL system. See his review, here!

"I recently bought a new computer dedicated for audio only, with a Lynx sound card. Last night I ran the PAD burn-in disk all night. I really didn't it would make a difference, BUT wow wow wow! The brightness has been removed, texture and delicacy of tone is amazing. Everything aspect of the music changed for the better. Thanks so much for developing the system enhancer."