Kudos announced it on their www 21st Feb
It’s called KS-1 & they say …
It’s “the result of the KISS principle of design: the right materials, well executed win over fancy marketing related engineering every time.
KS-1’s conductors are 19 strands of silver-plated Oxygen-Free Copper (OFC) insulated with Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) run with a slow twist and all surround by a hard PVC outer for protection. physical damping and simplicity of use.”
No other specs are included, no indication what size the cable is in mm/2, etc. so no chance of L & C
It looks remarkably similar to Chord Odyssey in appearance.
Coincidentally Odyssey is also 19 strand silver-plated oxygen free copper…
Will likely try TQ Black 2 after the MA300s arrive. I heard the original Black vs NACA5 and liked it - seemed deeper and smoother and matched the NACA5 in communication (PRaT).
When I was auditioning speaker cables and RCA/XLR interconnect cables quite a few years ago, I was disappointed to hear that in my system least, the TQ UB cables sounded significantly better than the much cheaper TQ B which in turn sounded much better than what I was using at the time.
I haven’t heard the new generation of TQ cables, and have no plans to upgrade to them, but I have heard anecdotally that the TQ B2 cables are pretty much on a par with the old TQ UB. I have no idea if this is really the case or not.
However, when I was initially considering TQ cables, TQ dealers had a policy of lending cables to prospective purchasers for home testing. From memory, I was able to demo TQ UB and B XLR interconnects and speaker cables at home in my own system for a period of at least a week in order to make up my mind. Whilst the Blacks initially sounded very ‘good’, I ended up keeping the Ultra Blacks and returning the Blacks. I didn’t dare ask for a demonstration of any of their more expensive cables.
Worthwhile checking to see if you can still arrange a home demo of the range of TQ cables from a local dealer.
Naca5 is £35 per mono metre, the TQ UB2 is just over £300 per mono metre…quite a difference. Beware some sites have small print at the very bottom of the page advising to enter 2 lengths, otherwise the price looks more reasonable, but you end up with only one speaker cable…just saying, almost caught me out.
Well from my experience of TQ UB II which has been happily entrenched in my system for nearly a year. I just love it, personally I think it’s a phenomenal cable and made just 15 miles from where I live
Slightly off topic - I use a ‘part loom’ of TQB speaker cable and (replacing a HiLine) the TQB din-din between NDX2/XPS2 & 282/HCDR. Both work very well indeed. Imho.