Audiomica Laboratory - Beryl Gold

Sound

Beryl performed very well as the main interconnect connecting the DAC source with the preamplifier. It delivered a dose of juicy, well-balanced sound supported by outstanding bass, which turned out to be surprisingly firm and fast in this price category. What distinguishes this interconnect is a great three-dimensional sound with a lot of details well placed in the soundstage space. Beryl keeps the right pace, with a strong bass base that adds more life and spectacularity to the music. The cable introduces a lot of pure black background, which the name of the black series suggests for a reason. The background noise, purified by the DFSS filter, adds a certain calm to the music, while maintaining a sufficiently strong attack of dynamics and the aforementioned detail. Starting with the vocals, which for many of us are the most visible in music and provide valuable timbre information, I have to admit that the Beryl was quite good, it did not introduce loudness, but rather distanced human voices with a greater dose of calmness, which I could listen to for many hours without getting tired hours. The colors of the vocal cords of male and female artists were preserved with an interesting and well-defined timbre, affecting the positive perception of music as a whole. Vocals did not play the first fiddle, but they also had body and energy to present, perhaps less spectacularly, but still correctly delivering the emotions expressed in the artist's voice. The backing vocals kept the right distance on stage, and their sound retained a large holography enriching the music so well that the lowest placed Beryl series contradicted its low position in the manufacturer's offer. Moving on to the lower range, which is of great importance in giving adequate saturation not only to the bass frequencies, the Beryl did a great job. The well-accentuated kick drum had adequate power and saturation while maintaining good timing, which can distort the sounds of many good cables. The snare drum sounded agile and transferred the vibrations of the springs in contact with the lower head of the membrane at the right time. Bass is probably the best point Beryl aims at, a firm, fast attack that maintains adequate strength and agile attack gives Beryl something that will not go unnoticed in a large crowd of competitors. Moving on to what makes music sparkle and become very readable, i.e. mid and high frequencies, Beryl maintains a sufficiently high level of readability, separating individual sounds from each other and adding something extra from each other, i.e. wonderful three-dimensionality. The electric guitar solo sounds mature and does not tire with its insistence. String instruments or acoustic guitars are slightly distanced, but the magical illumination of their three-dimensional space fills the gap of a short distance. Brass percussion instruments sound velvety, maintaining the discipline, sweetness and contours of the sound. Coming back to the comparison with Mica Transparent, Beryl is paler in this respect, but it cannot be unequivocally stated that it is worse. Mica Transparent plays with a more open sound, with a large dose of information in the high range, but it can be screaming and exaggerated at some moments, which you can't tell by listening to the Beryl.