Tellurium Q Cables
Designed around a single stated goal: reducing phase distortion. They publish almost nothing about construction and ask to be judged on listening instead, which customers consistently do in their favour.
About Tellurium Q Cables
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Tellurium Q build every cable around a single argument: any material in the signal path acts as an electronic filter whether the designer intends it or not, so the job is to make that filter as close to neutral as possible. Geoff Merrigan founded the company on that principle, coming to it from industrial chemistry and materials science rather than from audio.
The specific target is relative transient phase distortion, the smearing of the leading and trailing edges of sounds. The reference point is Bell Labs research from 1930 into phase distortion in speech, which found that distorted speech carried audible artefacts that were extraneous to the speech and transient in character. Tellurium Q state their focus as the phase relationships in a system, and they ask to be judged on listening rather than on published figures.
Cables are made in the UK, and the company holds the Queen's Award for Enterprise, granted in 2018 and again in 2021. The upper ranges use the company's own tellurium copper connectors, the material Tellurium Q takes its name from.
The power cable range runs from the Blue and Black families, through the Silver ranges, to the Diamond and Statement cables at the top. Each step is intended to carry the same tonal character further rather than change it, so moving up the range sharpens what you already have rather than giving you a different sound.
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Tellurium Q run three families rather than one ladder, and each has its own character. Start by choosing the family that suits your system, then the level within it. Every family climbs through three steps: the base range, the Ultra version, then the Diamond version. The families interleave by performance rather than stacking, so a Silver sits above a Black but below a Blue Diamond. Statement sits above all nine.
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£20.00Ex. VATTellurium Q Blue II is the entry level speaker cable that was designed to be the companion to Tellurium Q Black II.
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From£215.00Ex. VATThe entry level Blue Waveform II takes over from the original waveform with the same architectural approach to improving digital signals as the other Waveform II digital RCA cables.
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From£403.33Ex. VAT
Ultra Blue II looks pretty much exactly the same as the old Ultra Blue except for the “II” denoting the new generation cable. Plug in a burnt in Ultra Blue II after the old version and you will hear within seconds why we have upgraded this cable. The sound is fuller, more organic and better balanced in the whole range. The top end detail is still the same but everything else has risen to that performance level.
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Tellurium Q Black II 5 Pin Din to 5 Pin Din Audio InterconnectSKU: TQ Black II DIN
(2 reviews)From£398.33Ex. VATThe Black cables by Tellurium Q were a multi-award-winning range, but Tellurium decided that to overhaul the whole series. The result is the Black II range, an upgrade on those already exceptional cables, but delivered at the same price as the previous generation! This product is the new version of the Black 5 Pin Din to 5 Pin Din cable. It has been created specifically with Naim systems in mind, and has garnered rave reviews from proud Naim owners!
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Tellurium Q Blue Diamond Speaker Cable - Factory TerminatedSKU: TQ Blue Diamond Speaker
(5 reviews)From£337.50Ex. VATTellurium Blue Diamond (formerly known as Green) is the companion cable to Tellurium Ultra Black and is probably more suitable for slightly bright systems as they have a very slight “mellowing” effect. This can be particularly beneficial with class D and T amplifiers.
Tellurium Q Speaker Cables are also available in Bi-Wire configurations, Please contact us for more information.
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From£472.50Ex. VATThe Ultra Black II tone arm cable RCA to RCA, being from the DNA of the rest of the Ultra Black II family, exhibits the same outstanding performance that the reviews for this family of cables indicate. Additionally, each and every Ultra Black II phono cable is pre-conditioned using a special “jig” for two days to give you a head start on its performance, allowing you to get more from your system sooner. -
From£952.50Ex. VATTellurium were asked if it was possible to construct a reference level DIN cable, and this is the result. -
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Tellurium Q Black Diamond Digital Streaming Ethernet CableSKU: TQ Black Diamond Ethernet
From£831.25Ex. VATNew High performance Digital Streaming cable announced by Tellurium Q, bringing better detail and a more natural sound than you might expect. -
From£216.21Ex. VATThis is the Tellurium Q "entry level" digital XLR cable but the performance is well beyond an entry level product. -
From£2,117.50Ex. VATThe Silver Diamond RCA Interconnects were developed and designed after the Silver Diamond speaker cable to complement and reveal as much of that “world-leading” performance as possible.
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From£1,241.67Ex. VATThe Silver Diamond XLR sits right at the top of all TQ's families of sound in terms of performance. Highly detailed, incredible range and above all natural. Once you hear a Silver Diamond XLR you will find it difficult to go back.
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Tellurium Q Silver Diamond Speaker Cable - Factory TerminatedSKU: TQ Silver Diamond Speaker
From£1,512.50Ex. VATThe Silver Diamonds are the cables that Tellurium were not sure could be made (although they hoped that they would be possible).
Tellurium Q Speaker Cables are also available in Bi-Wire configurations, Please contact us for more information.
