Audioquest Firebird Zero


I've tried several speaker cables over the past year; Shunyata Alpha and Sigma, Wireworld Silver Eclipse series 7, Audioquest Oak and Redwood, Audience Au24 SX, and I own Clarus Crimson speaker cables. I prefer the Clarus over all of the aforementioned speaker cables. I've had the Audioquest Firebird Zero speaker cables on loan for three days. My initial thoughts were everything is a little clearer through them compared to my Clarus Crimson. Not a night and day difference, but definitely clearer. The Clarus are slightly more 3-dimensional to my ears. My wife on the other hand just keeps saying the AQ sounds sharper, clearer, there are less impurities in the music. I'm not sure what she means by impurities, but she keeps repeating it. Maybe she means a darker background? My plan was to have a home audition of the Thunderbird Zero speaker cables, but they had banana plugs on the amplifier end and I can't use them. I took the Firebirds with the logic that if I can't hear a difference between them and my current cables I didn't need to have a home audition of the Thunderbirds. $14K for an eight foot pair of speaker cables is freaking crazy and sad! It would be easy for me to dismiss it  because there isn't a night and day difference, but once you hear the difference it's very hard to ignore. Financially I just can't justify spending $14K on speaker cables and hope to hear the AQ Thunderbirds sometime next week. Once again I'm reminded that absolutely everything makes a difference. For those that can easily afford $14K, $20K or more speaker cables I understand, because cables can be equivalent to a component change. Does it ever end?
ricred1

Glad to hear you loved the William Tell bi wire cables.  I just ordered some, but unfortunately need 15 feet. Can’t wait to get them.

Still have a 10 feet William Tell bi-wire combo (pair) for sale at a great price.

These cables are very very good.

Feel free to email me

amyr

(at)

bezeqint.net

ricred1

 

Happy New Year!

any new Cable/Cord(s) headed your way in 2022 ?

 

Happy Listening!

Hi,

Very interesting thread!

I recently auditioned the Rocket 88 vs the Robin Hood ZERO. Wow, the difference was huge! I didn’t expect that! The RH made the soundstage open up so much more, with so much clarity and transparency. The bass was so much tighter and better separation and layering compared to the R88.

I also auditioned the Water and Earth interconnects, and in my system I needed the warmth of the Water RCA to make it a more smoother, fuller and engaging sound. The Earth was so much tigher but in my system not a good match with the RH. It was better, with more focus and separation but made it to clean to my ears, like it took all the warmth / life out of my system.

I’m wondering if the William Tells will sound a bit fuller / warmer so the voices has more weight, authority and body compared to the RH? Or how can you describe the characteristics of the WT in comparison?

Thanks!