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The Absolute Sound
The name is Bond…Matthew Bond. If the name has a familiar ring to it, it should. He founded The Absolute Reference Audio Labs in Australia in 1984, which ultimately became much-heralded TARA Labs. Bond’s cutting-edge air-dielectric designs known as the Air Series and the vacuum dielectric …
An exclusive podcast with Matthew Bond, founder of Matthew Bond Audio. Matthew Bond goes deep inside the intricacies, design, engineering and manufacture of high quality cables. From the inception of TARA Labs and the cables that took the world by storm to the new Matthew Bond Audio and his revo…
Delve into the intricacies of HiFi cable technology, construction, the impact of materials and the science behind high quality cables. The conversation takes a real turn into debunking cable myths including burn-in processes and poor sound from thick plastic cable coatings. Andrew Hutchison belie…
Arnis Balgalvis, Positive Feedback Magazine
Once upon a time the life of an audiophile was very simple. Take speaker cables, for example. At a meeting of The Audiophile Society in the 1980s, in front of a group of some 60 people, the featured guest presenter, a very prominent equipment modifier, proudly declared: “As far as I’m concerned, …
five star review
… I heard a clarity, neutrality, and lack of harshness in any well recorded music that I’ve never heard before with any cable. The GSC-36 improved the sound to almost live. All instruments whether in Jazz, Classical, or Rock recordings were correct in relative volume, tone, detail, position in sound stage (lateral and depth), and […]
five star review
You must know that your cables are really something special. I have never heard such an improvement in my system that rivals the improvement from your cables. I have experienced differences when I upgraded my dcs stack of components, but I have never heard such an improvement as I have with the Matthew Bond Audio […]
five star review
The most remarkable virtue of the Analog Reference interconnect is its ability to add density to images, to vocals, to the music overall. How does a wire do this? I have not been aware previously that the images of sound have been almost skeletal relative to how they now sound. This makes music sound so […]
five star review
… I do not believe that any component I have upgraded has made such a significant improvement in the sound quality of my system … virtually every aspect of sound has been improved, the entire frequency spectrum, micro and macro dynamics, imaging, etc. But what makes these cables so unique (and it is a first […]