Annorum

In my constant quest for cheap tweaks for my second system, which I call the TV system, I decided to get some new speaker cables.

I enjoy a bit of DIY from time to time, so ordered some Supra XL Annorum and a few bits and bobs to terminate it.

The Supra is a great cable.

According to to the blurb: ‘Supra XL Annorum is a speaker cable we are proud to announce as one of our 40^TH Anniversary offer. The name derives from playing with latin numbers and language where XL means -10+50=40 and Annorum is a bent form of Anno, latin for year, hence 40 Years. We take great pleasure in the fact that this cable is developed together with a reknowned Swedish speaker designer famous for e.g. QLN speakers among others. The intention was a conductor lead for the internal wiring of drivers and cross-over filter. During the progress we acknowledged such good performance that the idea of having the conductors forming a complete speaker cable came to life.

The design is a 4 x 1.6 mm² square shaped lead configuration, where each lead comprises a plastic core around which 12 strands 5N Oxygen-free Copper are spun in a tight pitch. This minimizes skin-effect and inductance efficiently and by choosing the sonically benign PP as di-electric (insulation) the sonical stability by preventing corrosion and material fatigue, will remain at highest possible level year after year.

The specification and performance fits right in between our Supra Quadrax and Sword edition.’

I bought some copies of WBT angled spades and locking banana plugs to terminate it with, and also some nice splitters to make it look a bit more slick. I did use proper crimp sleeves on the cable and used clear heat shrink to bundle the conductors to make it tidy. Looks pretty good I reckon. A bit more bling than I am used to.

The WBT copies are passable, not as fine as the legit terminations, but actually pretty good. I need bananas for the Leaks binding posts and didn’t want them sticking out too far, so the angled bananas were a good bet. I didn’t want to spring the $$$ required for actual WBT plugs.

The spades allow the cable to hang nicely from the binding posts of the Falcons as well. I’ll run it in a bit and see if I can notice any difference to the really good DNM cable that had been on there.