There is purity, and then there is Acrolink. The company's 7N copper, 99.99999 percent pure, is refined through a process so exacting that the output of entire production runs is sometimes reserved for laboratories before audiophiles get a turn. Scepticism is healthy here; purity figures are easily printed and rarely verified. But Acrolink has been at this longer and more credibly than anyone, and the cables have a signature that we have learned to recognise blind: silence, speed, and an almost eerie lack of electronic haze.
The speaker range
Three models cover the range. The 7N-S1000 Leggenda is the established classic. The 7N-S1010 and 7N-S1040 Purosangue models are the newer designs, with the S1040 at the top. All three use the 7N copper in geometries refined over decades, and all three are terminated by us with generic or Oyaide banana and spade connectors.
Listening
We need to be careful with superlatives, because this is the price bracket where they get cheap. So: a specific observation. On Anne Bisson's "September in Montreal", there is a moment where the piano's left hand crosses under the melody and the room tone of the studio swells behind it. Through the Leggenda, that room tone was not a wash of ambience but a space with dimensions, one we could have paced off. The Purosangue S1010 took the same track and cleaned the window again; the piano's attack lost the last hint of a leading edge and simply appeared, fully formed. The S1040, on a genuinely high end pair of speakers, did the same trick on massed strings, which is harder, and on choral music, which is harder still.
If the Acrolinks have a house character beyond neutrality, it is a slight leanness of tone, the price of all that clarity. On a warm tube amplifier the result is sublime. On an already lean solid state system we would audition before committing, and our workshop is happy to talk it through.
The power pair
The 7N-PC4020 and 7N-PC4030 Purosangue CB power cables bring the 7N conductor to mains duty, finished with black or silver rhodium plated connectors. On a DAC, the PC4020 produced the purest top end we have heard from a power cable at anywhere near the price, with cymbals on the Jazz at the Pawnshop recording sounding like metal rather than static. The PC4030 on the amplifier reinforced the family trait: not bigger bass, but cleaner bass, with the low frequency texture of acoustic instruments rendered more faithfully.
Verdict
Acrolink is for the listener who values clarity and truth over warmth and forgiveness, and who has a system resolved enough to show the difference. Within that brief, these cables are reference standard, and several of our long term customers have settled on full Acrolink looms after hearing a single run. Terminated to your specification in the workshop, as always.