While the build quality is perfect and only top quality materials were used, I do still have a few remarks. The splitter is pretty far away from the terminations and I have told Suyang before that I personally find their nice looking carbon splitter a little too big and heavy. Both these things combined make the cable drag down a bit but that might only be an issue when you would use this cable with inear monitors. When sitting still in my couch this isn’t really an issue yet I would have preferred to have seen it different. In their defense, most people seem to like the splitters, so probably it’s just me.
Compared to my original 4-wire Eros, this new one is more flexible and feel softer, even if it is the 8-braid version.
Sound
“Eros II offers more balance, more staging and more vocals allure together with its new cable geometry design, Eros II+ is not your usual hybrid cable.”
It’s a shame that my original Eros is terminated for use with inears as the new Eros II+ cable is terminated in Audeze plugs, that makes it kind of hard to compare their sound signature.
What I like most about this cable is that it almost disappears sound-wise. Its strength is that it does a little bit of everything and it does so very effortlessly, resulting in an easy to listen to sound signature. It doesn’t put the vocals upfront, increase bass body or adds/extends treble. It does it all and that makes it such an easy to use cable both for personal relaxed listening as for reviewing. Objectively I should say that the Eros II+ probably is strongest in the mids section but as I love spacious, full bodied and rich sounding mids, it for me is a very natural sounding cable.
As expected you of course get a good level of detail, clarity, and a spacious and deep sound but I would say the Eros II+ goes deeper than it goes wide (especially in the mids section). It’s presentation is more to the relaxed, intimate and softer side but never in a disappointing or bad way. It just gives you the music and lets you enjoy it as good as it can with superb and natural vocals. It isn’t one of those cables that makes your music more analytical because it want’s to get that last bit of micro detail out of it, this cable brings you an enjoyable mix between detail, clarity, space and musicality with the same level of “body” from bass to highs. I for one love using it with my original HD800 and it transforms the HD800 in a more relaxed and easier to enjoy headphone that I even use for watching movies now. The characteristics of the Eros II+ and the HD800 combined simply make it a highly enjoyable and easygoing combination. Both for listening to music to and watching movies with.
Looking at the build quality, materials used and how this cable sounds with a multitude of headphones (I advise everyone to buy Effect Audio’s adapters), I can only conclude the Eros II+ outperforms its price level. I myself tend to use it as the to-go-to cable in my nightstand setup with the HD800, Audeze LCD-XC, LCD-2 and now even the Beyerdynamic Amiron. If you’re looking for a beautiful and perfectly built, affordable aftermarket cable that you can both use for relaxed qualitative listening as for watching movies with, than the Eros II+ is definitely one to put on your audition list.
Now it’s back to The Mechanic 2 with the gorgeous Jason Statham Jessica Alba. A pretty lady and great sound, can a Thursday night get even better?
