Ansuz MAINZ power cords and products, SPEAKZ speaker cables, and SIGNALZ interconnects are also available in four, progressively more expensive forms: POM, aluminum, ceramic, and diamond.

In the case of the various wires, the signal conductors remain the same--very low inductance, low capacitance cables with superior grounding. It is the connectors at the ends of each level of cable that are different.

Although I'm not fond of cable-swaps, I have to admit that I've never heard anything like the Ansuz before. It's not that these cables, interconnects, cords, and conditioner are higher in resolution and transient speed than other high-end wires. Nor are they more beautiful and realistic sounding than the best of the competition.

The difference they make--and I heard this difference repeated with every speaker in the Raidho line, from the X-1 through the D 5s--is, nevertheless, unmistakable and dramatic.

To put this plainly, the Ansuz produce the most enveloping, three-dimensional soundstage I've ever heard, short of an omnidirectional speaker. Listening to speakers wired with Ansuz is a bit like listening to earphones in that the soundstage doesn't just get wider and deeper from the plane of the speakers to the backwall; no, with Ansuz the soundstage seemingly wraps around your head, so that instruments are staged from the plane of your ears all the way to the rearmost boundaries of the listening room. As a result, the speakers not only disappear, so does the room.

Whether this startling effect is "correct" or not (i.e., an accurate reflection of microphone and instrumental placements or the product of some kind of consistent phase shift) I don't know yet. What I do know is that Ansuz makes the most three-dimensional soundfield I've ever heard from "mere" wires, isolators, conditioners, and stands.