I thought that the AudioQuest GroundGoody ground wire was going to be, by far, the simplest of these new earthing products I’ve set out to review. After spending time with the Nordost QKORE grounding system, […]
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[Editor’s note–I’d like to welcome to Graig Neville to the tricky, sometimes treacherous but ultimately necessary world of cable reviewing. As Graig fine-tuned his system into a reviewer’s reference, he chose an AudioQuest assortment to address his immediate needs because he’s used these products–and enjoyed them–in the past. This is his story.] Not Just Another Cable Review, or Wire We Doing This? Cable reviews are polarizing for most audiophiles. Can you hear cable differences? Is it all just voodoo? Is the Emperor wearing new clothes? If you think that all cables sound the same, then don’t waste your money on voodoo snake oil and stop reading now. Are you still reading but skeptical? Good, then read on about the AudioQuest assortment of cables and other devices that I received. When Stephen Mejias reached out to me to see if I would be interested in reviewing an AudioQuest assortment, I emphatically said yes! I was once a firm skeptic regarding cables in my early hi-fi days. I vividly remember standing in a showroom at a dealer in the Chicagoland area listening to some great speakers–Avalon or Aerial, my memory is sketchy back 30+ years. There was a gentleman standing in the […]
At a recent high-end audio show I sat with a group of colleagues in the hotel lobby and discussed, as we often do, what we had seen that was worthwhile. One person asked an interesting question: “What single component are you seeing in more rooms than any other?” I made a joke about Mat Weisfeld pulling up in a truck full of VPI turntables and dropping one off in every room, but then I realized that the answer was this: the AudioQuest Niagara power conditioners, specifically the flagship Niagara 7000. In a very fickle industry, that says a lot about the AudioQuest power conditioning designs—even if Bill Low and Garth Powell are just pulling up in the space next to the VPI truck and installing Niagaras in each room the Wednesday before the show. It means that there’s a consensus in the high-end audio industry, a rare thing. Or it could mean that AudioQuest is simply a generous company when it comes to loaning out product. I can attest to the latter possibility—AudioQuest is always willing to lend me anything I need to do my job, no questions asked. Stephen Mejias, well-known to most audiophiles as a former reviewer and […]