The way I can best describe the effects of RENATA is generating a slightly new tone. Yet that tone also carries with it soundstage changes and timbre afterburners. The results could be looked at as almost using a different instrument for the recording, in that (to me) tone and reverberation are so drastically modified. Like in the studio switching to record a specific Les Paul to maybe a newer model of Les Paul guitar? There can be warm woody tones emphasized, or brighter faster decays which almost sound like the recording was done in a different room. Then there is stage positioning, where these new additions of midrange flourish to proclaim their existence in a specific place inside the stage, again also with a very certain character which could be brighter of slightly softer (Graphene maybe?) at the very edge of the heights of extension!
If you want an audio python that squeezes the last drop of performance from your IEMs and don’t care that it’s heavy, Penon Renata is a beast of a cable.
However in a landscape full of choices, why pick Renata in particular?
Resolution. That’s where I feel this cable really excels – magnifying tiny details in a way similarly-priced 8 wire cables struggle to do.
I recommend Renata especially for IEMs which are a little vague, that need sharpening up with precision. It won’t give you the absolute widest soundstage out there, but you’ll notice tiny details more effortlessly against a blacker background. Oh, and bass is terrific which never hurts.
My only issue with big cables like this is once you get used to them it gets hard going back to cheap stock cables, knowing how much un-extracted performance you’re missing.
Overall the Renata is yet another brilliant cable in a line of brilliant cables made by our friends at Penon Audio. If you own the ISN CS02 and or bass cable but want a higher end version of them both that is exactly what I feel the Ranata is. It is the CS02 that is definitely the first version of the Renata.
In the end it is a hybrid type cable that brings a higher level of imaging and inner details of your IEMs. It will work wonders for IEMs that seem a bit veiled sounding but even with IEMs that are much more resolving the Renata shows consistency in how it presents your IEM sound. It will be versatile and excellent for numerous types but more specifically dynamic based IEMs.
Mr. moose –
The way I can best describe the effects of RENATA is generating a slightly new tone. Yet that tone also carries with it soundstage changes and timbre afterburners. The results could be looked at as almost using a different instrument for the recording, in that (to me) tone and reverberation are so drastically modified. Like in the studio switching to record a specific Les Paul to maybe a newer model of Les Paul guitar? There can be warm woody tones emphasized, or brighter faster decays which almost sound like the recording was done in a different room. Then there is stage positioning, where these new additions of midrange flourish to proclaim their existence in a specific place inside the stage, again also with a very certain character which could be brighter of slightly softer (Graphene maybe?) at the very edge of the heights of extension!
https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/the-penon-renata-cable.27038/reviews#review-33017
Bosk –
If you want an audio python that squeezes the last drop of performance from your IEMs and don’t care that it’s heavy, Penon Renata is a beast of a cable.
However in a landscape full of choices, why pick Renata in particular?
Resolution. That’s where I feel this cable really excels – magnifying tiny details in a way similarly-priced 8 wire cables struggle to do.
I recommend Renata especially for IEMs which are a little vague, that need sharpening up with precision. It won’t give you the absolute widest soundstage out there, but you’ll notice tiny details more effortlessly against a blacker background. Oh, and bass is terrific which never hurts.
My only issue with big cables like this is once you get used to them it gets hard going back to cheap stock cables, knowing how much un-extracted performance you’re missing.
https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/the-penon-renata-cable.27038/reviews
Dsnuts –
Overall the Renata is yet another brilliant cable in a line of brilliant cables made by our friends at Penon Audio. If you own the ISN CS02 and or bass cable but want a higher end version of them both that is exactly what I feel the Ranata is. It is the CS02 that is definitely the first version of the Renata.
In the end it is a hybrid type cable that brings a higher level of imaging and inner details of your IEMs. It will work wonders for IEMs that seem a bit veiled sounding but even with IEMs that are much more resolving the Renata shows consistency in how it presents your IEM sound. It will be versatile and excellent for numerous types but more specifically dynamic based IEMs.
https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/the-penon-renata-cable.27038/reviews#review-33017