Audioquest Rocket 44 speaker cable. Any good??

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I recently acquired a pair of the rocket 44 in a 7’ biwire arrangement.  Initially they sounded very good but quickly(within a few hours of play time) became kind of dull with little detail.

To which one would ask, why would a company design cables to sound like this?  And the answer is, they don’t.  The cables need to be broken in!!  I now have about 27 hours on them and using the same speakers, same music, same room and same volume levels, the highs are back and detail giving an airy sound stage.  

The difference is striking, and all it took was running the system for a few hours a day for a week.  I checked the audioquest site, and they suggest it may take about 200 hours to fully break in.  This is about half of what Morrow Audios cables take to break in, but it does take time.

Break in is real, if you have a decent system you owe it to yourself to get the best sound out of it.

Well that’s the thing about speaker cable, isn’t it?  They may sound bad with some speaker/gear combos and great with others.  

Glad you found something that works for you, for me the 44’s are much better than the Wireworld stuff they replaced.

Well that’s interesting.  I also purchased an NRG-4 and a Cinnamon USB cable for my phone to DAC, both Audioquest.  I’m impressed with what Audioquest brings to the table,though they can get quite expensive.

All my IC’s are Morrow MA 3 or 5.  I like them so much that I’ve ordered another MA 5 for the CD player with an upgraded power cable.  Right now the Schiit Bifrost DAC is easily superior to the NAD C565BEE CD player.  The NAD was a $900 player with a Wolfson dac so I’m hoping it has more to give.

It has become almost amazing to me how much cables can improve sound.  

I am using the NAD as a source without the dac.  The Bifrost is converting my phone’s digital feed and I’m surprised at how good it can sound.

Yeah, the quote is bang on, not sure if you agree with it or what.  The best a cable can do is do no harm to the signal.

But in this “comparison” between cables you mention there are so many missing pieces to the story. And it looks like you left them out on purpose, so I’ll just say good for you.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  Start a cable thread on any brand cable, and in short order you have haters with bizarre stories.  

And the inevitable mistical experiences with some other brand that has them doing back flips, it amazes me how every single brand out there has amazing improvements AND awful results.  How can it be anything else than either equipment mismatches or user error or hearing tastes that are bizarre?