![]() ![]() The Reference AC also significantly cleaned up the top-end, where the cymbal, triangle, and other high-pitched percussion instruments reside. Not only was the bass more controlled, but it was deeper and the fidelity increased. The Reference AC deepened the bass and also revealed more details. Other reviewers have also pointed out many of these, but most tend to comment on the improvements to the bass, and I agree. That alone was good enough to win me over, but of course, there were other improvements. The sound seemed to come from his whole throat and sometimes his chest instead of just from his nose. But even with this audiophile faux pas, The Vermouth Reference AC made an unquestionable difference. Trent Reznor’s voice no longer sounded constrained, strangled almost in the center of the sound stage, his voice filled out and was more three-dimensional, it had body and depth. It was streaming from Spotify at a lossy bit rate. Unquestionable DifferenceĪt that moment I happened to be listening to Pretty Hate Machine from Nine Inch Nails. The Vermouth Reference AC replaced a second Audience forte f3 powerChord that had been providing power to the Soloist amp. The difference was significant and obvious once the Vermouth Reference Power Cord was in place. I plugged the Reference AC cable to the Audience forte V8 Power Conditioner with an Audience forte f3 powerChord ( reviewed here) into the wall. Since the PecanPi DAC uses a wall wart power supply, I used the Vermouth Reference AC in to power the Soloist. Then I used the PecanPi DAC ( reviewed here) from Orchard Audio as the source and connected it to a Stager Silver Solid headphone and interconnect cables ( reviewed here) and a WyWires USB cable. I started with my headphone rig, which is just a Burson Soloist, the older model with the beefy power supply, and my old Audeze LCD-2 headphones. As in, it isn’t just Litz wire, or just ribbon, or just solid core, but rather, Hendry has custom-designed the cables to use a variety of UP-OCC strand sizes, and sometimes ribbon for some cables, to best meet the needs of the product. The Vermouth Reference line takes the “a little bit of everything” kind of approach. ![]() The plug is a Rhodium Furutech FI-28 with a carbon fiber shell body. The power cord uses air tubing for spacing, and it is housed in an Al-Mylar sheath that reduces interfering noise. It splits 39 UP-OCC multisized strands into two bundles surrounded by a braided shield. Teflon insulates both the conductor and shield. Like all of the Vermouth Audio cables, the Reference Power Cord uses braided OCC copper. I can tell you without a doubt that the Reference Power Cord made fundamental improvements to the quality of both my headphone rig and main speaker system. The Reference line came out in 2017, and many reviewers have had great things to say about them. The Reference line of cables is the newest addition to the Vermouth family, It replaces the Black Pearl line on the top shelf. That’s a lot to cover, so this review will be in two parts. They included the brand new USB cable, the Reference Power Cord, Reference interconnects, Reference speaker cables, and last but not least, a monster of a six-outlet Reference power distributor. When I indicated an interest in reviewing his cables, Joshua Masonsong of Believe High Fidelity Ltd., the US distributor for Vermouth Audio, sent me a whole slew of cables to review. I highly recommend giving this audio cable brand a shot in your system. While the Vermouth brand is new to me, Hendry has offered exceptional cables at real-world prices since 2010. ![]() Vermouth Audio is based out of Bali, Indonesia, and is owned by Hendry Ramli. ![]()
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