Audience Front Row vs Cardas Clear


Has anyone had the opportunity to compare these two cables on Magnepans? How do they compare? I’m currently using AQ Argent between my Diablo 300 and Maggie 3.7x.

swede58

I use FrontRow cables with Magnepan Mini speakers in my office system. I use the FrontRow cable on the small panels with the speaker cable connect to the Magnepan bass panel.  The Schitt Wotan amp is connected to the bass panel with a different low-cost speaker cable.

At one time I had the low-cost speaker cable (forgot the brand name) on both the amp-2-bass and bass-2-mini panels. However, I was able to get my very short FrontRow to connect to the mini panels (using a stand for the bass panel) and I noticed a slightly cleaner sound. So, the FrontRow stays, though I would have sold the FrontRow cables and put the cheaper cables back since the difference is not that great.

On my Livingroom system, Yamaha NS5000 | CODA #16 amp. I also use FrontRow speaker cables, and it is the best I have tried. Easily better than the following, 

- Benchmark speaker cable

- Audience AU24 SX

- WyWire Platinum

- WyWire Diamond

- Low-cost cables I use on the Mini system

On the Yamaha system the cables differences are easy to hear. On the office system the improvement is there with the FrontRow but I could live with the cheaper cables. Since I was not able to sell the very short FrontRow speaker cables I am using it with the Maggies,

 

No idea how these Cardas speaker cables sound. But I compared Audience Front Row to Audience AU24sx, Furutech DSS-4.1 and Nordost Tyr 2. The Front Row is still in my system. 

The only thing I can tell you is I really like the Front Row speaker cables. I do not like Front Row interconnects and USB cables in my system. 

The information I provided above is just as useful as the info from anyone who compared Front Row to Cardas with Magnepan. Means nothing. There are no two identical systems and rooms. Add personal preference to that and you’re back to the simple answer - try both and see which one suits your tastes better.