The Kharma suite demonstrated the Exquisite Series; the room was set up beautifully and produced an outstanding sound. Yes, a system at this price should impress… but, it did, then some!” The sound was transparent with lots of detail and rich timbre and with a nicely sized soundstage. The system included stunningly crafted Exquisite Grand Signature loudspeakers (215,000€), the Exquisite Midi active subwoofer (25,000€), driven by their own exquisitely built electronics; Exquisite’s signature Mono Power Amplifier MP1000 (80,000€), and the Exquisite Signature Preamplier P1000 (80,000€). Analogue was by way of the Clear Audio Statement turntable. All cables were by Kharma Enigma Extreme signature cable series.
Kharma Grand Reference cables
The Kharma Grand Reference Speaker Wire
We were sitting around listening to Renée Fleming’s impossibly beautiful voice on the Grammy award-winning CD Bel Canto [Decca 289 467 101-2]. Bruce Fetherling and the guys from Acoustic Dreams had just installed their Ayon Signature speakers with their own home-brew speaker wire. We put on track 10, Bellini’s “Il pirata”, as good a test of big dynamics as any I’ve heard. The orchestra begins softly and grows, and grows some more, until you’re about ready to hit the volume control. Only this time the orchestra didn’t impress us that much, and Renée didn’t sound quite right. So we swapped the home-brew speaker cables for the Kharma Grand Reference. The amazing result was confirmed by all present.
