June 9, 2017
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XLO UltraPLUS U6, Part 2
In the mid-90s, the push-up Wonderbra was a smash hit. My then-gf, ACS, worked at Victoria's Secret. As such, she did not like padded or push-up bras, which she called, "fake."
ACS loved wearing blue jeans over a black thong, or black tights over a blue thong. So when she came over to my house, and spied the blue-and-black Kimber Kable 4TC/8TC, she approved. She liked that blue-and-black color scheme, which also happened to look good on her, both up top, and around her, um, upper bass/lower midrange.
But then, in Fall 1996, we replaced the Kimber KCAG interconnect with an XLO Signature 1.1. Naturally, you had to use same-brand speaker cables. So we replaced the Kimber 4TC/8TC with XLO Ultra 6/12. Nowhere on the speaker cable did it actually say, "Ultra 6." That is still true today, so the UltraPLUS U6 comes with an identifying tag. In this case, "U6-7" means UltraPLUS U6, 7-feet long.
ACS may have referred to Wonderbra as "fake," but for years, fake XLO have been coming out of China. So to combat that, genuine XLO product, including the UltraPLUS U6, comes with a hologram sticker. Just so you know, ACS detested (and still detests) tags. Along those lines, nowhere on the UltraPLUS U6 itself are hologram stickers or serial numbers.
