Audioquest speaker cables

gregure

Ok, by now many of you know I work for Magnolia Hi-Fi, and we sell Audioquest cables exclusively, so of course I may be biased, but these cables are really nice.
I just hooked up a pair of CV-8 speaker cables with Audioquest's DBS battery pack attached (to preserve charge and eliminate the "better sound when warmed up" effect). I compared several recordings with my old cables, a pair of Premium II from Bettercables.com. What a difference. Vocals are clearer and warmer, bass is tighter and deeper, and there is a substantial reduction in noise floor. I actually never realized how much noise I had before I experienced how quiet the signal is now.
I thought I'd share my experience. Everything I've gotten from Audioquest is better than anything I've had before, by quite a bit.
VDM-5 pure silver digital coax > Bettercables.com Silver Serpent
YIQ3 component video > Monster Cable Z 300 Silver Component Video
CV-8 speaker cable > Premium II from Bettercables.com

I would really recommend Audioquest to anyone interested in cables. They are expensive, but that's because they're truly high end cables, and are actually much less expensive than many of the other beefy cables that perform at or perhaps below the level of Audioquest's line.

VDM-5 digital coax 1M-$225
YIQ-3 component Video 2M-$400
CV-8 speaker cable 8ft pair-$595

May not have tried them if I had to pay for them, but I'm glad I have them as they've greatly improved my system.

Early B.

I'm luving my Bedrocks.

BobMcG

I'm one person you don't have to sell on AQ products. I've got them in use (and some not in use) all over the house and have made and sold many pairs in the past. I do have other's in use and have tried yet other's in the past but after falling upon AQs around ten years ago they became my favorites.
I do have a couple of pairs of their newer line is use but on my main 2ch rig I have (and will keep using) what for years used to be their flagship cables. Original Dragon speaker cables in the form of 4' double biwires; 1pr of 0.5m Diamond ICs; 1pr of 1.0m Diamond ICs. I probably don't have to remind you of what these went for new back then.... shall we say more than some complete systems.
All I can say is I take pitty on the people who paid full retail for them. I lucked out and got the Dragons off an audio shop in CA that was going out of business and the Diamonds off the owner of a large mid-west trucking company who has the terrible problem of having more money than God and had the habit of buying all the highest end cables available and trying them for a while and moving on to the next normally unaffordable pair. At the time he was running an all top of the line Krell 2ch rig and an all Krell HT and had just purchased a new $13,000 Krell CD player that was very highly toted in the audio mags. So far out of my league it isn't funny to be sure but the point is I got to benifit from the situation, to be sure.

Toxis

I had a buddy just take a set of those cables on loaner for a weekend and he felt his Mapleshade solid core cables sounded every bit as good if not a little more airy. I thought it was funny $85 cables were keeping up with $450 cables and potentially being a tad better. I have yet to buy into the whole battery concept.

Other than that, I have a huge amount of respect for AQ.

disneyjoe7

I love my Diamondbacks and Bedrocks, great cables.