The best IC in the World! My Audio Design Diamond Signature
In June 2009, the Hi-Fi World magazine elected the Missing Link Cryo Reference as the ‘THE WORLD STANDARD CABLE’ In September issue, the editor David Price reviewed the MAD Diamond Signature and said ‘This is certainly a distinctive sounding interconnect, possessing one of the most open and accurate top ends I’ve heard at almost any price.’ Duran Duran’s ‘Lonely in Your Nightmare’ is a fussy pop production, full of early eighties studio trickery, yet the MAD cable cut through it like a hot knife cut through butter, making my current mid-price reference cable, the Missing Link Link Cryo Reference interconnect actually sound quite diffuse. Given the great quality of the latter, I wasn’t prepared for the extra treble clarity the Diamond Signature was bringing – I could even hear the tape hiss running all the way through the song. It’s an amazingly fast and transparent sounding cable, one which seems to have little or no overhang; instruments start and stop with tremendous alacrity. The midband is superb too, although here the MAD was less obviously superior and better described as ‘different’. Whilst it made the Missing Link cable still seem quite opaque by comparasion.