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Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile
Best Interconnect 2008/2009 - The Absolute Sound
Editors' Choice Award Winner 2007 - The Perfect Vision
Draws You Deep in the Music with Hybrid Silver and Copper Conductors
Kimber Kable's Hero HB interconnect draws you into the music by correctly presenting the harmonic structure and emotion of the actual performance. It also gives you holographic imaging, detail, and bass impact.
Hero HB is an analog interconnect based on proven Kimber Kable technologies and design goals. This four-wire braided analog interconnect boasts two stranded copper and two stranded silver conductors for a one-two sonic punch. These hybrid conductors are arranged in an advanced GyroQuadradic geometry with an additional silver conductor for increased noise rejection capability, plus single and dual layer low loss fluorocarbon dielectric.
This version of Hero single-ended features precision machined WBT® RCA type connectors.
Compared to lesser, 'non-heroic' interconnects, Kimber Kable Hero HB delivers increased overall detail, increased bass depth, wider soundstage, and increased image focus.
"Recommended Component" Honors
Stereophile honored Kimber Kable's 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.'"
"Best Interconnect"
Hero has been listed in The Absolute Sound High-End Buyer's Guide and/or praised as a "Best Interconnect" by the magazine dating back to 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 Superb performance never goes out of date, and the November 2018 issue of The Absolute Sound brings more raves for Hero.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."
"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 2008 / Spring 2009 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."
"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."
Finished with WBT 0144 Locking RCA
This version of Hero HB is terminated with the WBT 0144, featuring a locking RCA with a slotted center pin, fluorocarbon insulation, and strain relief captured via a Torx screw. It uses a multi-layer plating process, with a final plating of 24-karat gold.
"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.
