Cables are part of a system and must mate well with the other components. Forget about brand names and manufacturer malarkey. Use your ears. See http://ielogical.com/Audio/CableSnakeOil.phpIgnore ALL recommendations as no one here has your gear, your room or your preferences. If you don't attend live acoustic performances, spend the money on that until you have a valid frame of reference. Audioquest is a price point manufacturer. Their cables do not share a signature sound with all gear. see https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1785092
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Anybody who believes L, R, C is all that’s going on It's not belief. Changing any of Mr K's magic parameters affects LCR. Functionally-Perfect Copper (FPC) That's a HOWLER! I consider to try Kimber, Cardas, MIT, Transparent, Nordost, +1 on everything but Nordost speaker cables. IMO, Nordost is a very colored speaker cable. It may work well with some components, but that direction is the wrong way to go. Take Cardas copper claims with a grain of iron pyrite, aka fools gold. |
@dustsailor Please read http://ielogical.com/Audio/CableSnakeOil.php and the links to Garen Galeis articles therein. Silver does not make cables bright. IMO, AQ is an egregious fraud, selling ridiculously overpriced tone controls rather than neutral cables. |
Depends on the cable and the gear to which they are connected. I've heard different AQ cables with the same gear sound dull, muddied, bright to rip your ears off. |
I would say that AQ is in the top five. There is no top anything other than sales volume. Cables are system dependent and what is cheese in one is chalk in another. Audio Envy The marketing copy is malarkey. They may sound fine, but not for the reasons they state. |
All AQ cables have a similar sound characteristic on a system that is either low resolution or impervious to cables. On systems that resolve well, especially in the time domain, AQ cables are all over the sonic map. |
