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Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile
Best Interconnect - The Absolute Sound
Editors' Choice Award - The Perfect Vision
Interconnect Cable of the Year - Absolute Sound
Detailed and Dynamic Sound
Kimber Kable's affordable Hero interconnect offers more detailed and dynamic sound than Kimber's famous PBJ cables. A balance between low capacitance and low to moderate series induction make Hero an ideal solution for low-level signals, so it is ideal for interconnects.
Made up of four 19AWG conductors insulated with virgin FEP dielectric. Hero's four-wire quadratic braid provides wide bandwidth and noise reduction without the use of shielding. The four-wire braided geometry also produces ideal results when used in a balanced system with XLR connections for additional immunity to noise and signal degradation. Hero offers imaging and transparency close to Kimber's more expensive Silver Streak cables, but at a fraction of the cost.
This balanced version of Hero interconnect offers high-quality Kimber XLR connectors and will bring out the best in your music, movies, and more.
"Best Interconnect" Honors
Hero has received numerous accolades in pages of the audiophile press and has been listed in The Absolute Sound High-End Buyer's Guide and/or praised as a "Best Interconnect" by the magazine since at least 2003!
That kind of longevity gives Hero 'legendary cable' status. Superb performance never goes out of date, and the November 2018 issue of The Absolute Sound brings the latest raves for Hero. "Yielding only a tiny bit in control, top-end transparency, and detailing to PS’s reference, Hero’s bass lives up to its name, prodigious in amplitude and definition," says the magazine, which terms Hero as "dead neutral, with dynamics at once powerful yet finely resolved in an essentially grain-free presentation."
"Recommended Component" Honors
Stereophile honored Hero Interconnect by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2024.
According to Stereophile, Hero is "the 'strong, silent type' when it comes to cables, says the inestimable JM. 'And reasonably priced, into the bargain.'"
"Bass is Prodigious"
The Absolute Sound magazine rated the Kimber Kable Hero interconnect and Kimber Kable 8TC speaker cable as the "Best Interconnect and Speaker Cable" in the Winter 08 / Spring 09 issue. "The Hero's bass is prodigious; the mids are either dead neutral or a notch light, with dynamics at once powerful yet finely shaded"
"A Sonic Near-Twin"
Kimber Kable Hero Interconnect won an "Editors' Choice" award in the Winter 2007 Home Theater Buyer's Guide from The Perfect Vision magazine.
"A sonic near-twin to the more costly Kimber Select KS-1021, Hero yields by direct comparison only a tiny bit in sheer control, ultimate transparency, and inner detail to its pricier brother," reports The Perfect Vision.
"Ray Kimber has always delivered exceptional sound and value in his low- and mid-priced cables and interconnects; the Hero takes the Finalist honors in a very competitive category. With an accurate tonal balance, great transparency, and wonderful bass definition, the Hero sets the standard in affordable interconnects," The Absolute Sound magazine concludes.
"Impressive Feat"
"One ordinarily thinks of a hero as someone who overcomes terrible odds to achieve an overall good. In that context, I think that this latest line of interconnects from Kimber more than lives up to its lofty name," observes John Upton in his review for soundstage.com.
"It cannot be easy to offer the level of detail and refinement presented by the Heroes at such a comparatively low price, but the folks at Kimber Kable have somehow managed to pull off this impressive feat."
