Full loom AQ here.
I have tried plenty of their cables vs some other brands such as vertere, atlas, sablon, what ever friends have vs mine.
I started with two thunder power cords and a diamond AES. Once i heard the bass control AQ cables offer, in addition to detail, excellent sound staging, opennes, i could not stop.
Most of my cables are PSS or PSC+.
I have few firebird HC and source. I believe that's the sweet spot in the strom series. Hurricane is not bad, but firebird is has more sparkle and transparency. The only issue is its price!
Have firebird zero + thunderbird bi wire speaker cables conneting my diablo 300 to kef ref 5s, it feels just as there is no cable! Dynamics, transparency, and grain free. Doesn't sound too forward to me at all. I believe AQ cables are colourless, the just allow you to hear your equipment true sound. If you have something garbage in your chain, they will expose it.
The higher you go up, the more transparent, better everything. Before i started using AQ, i had a bad idea about silver cables. Turned out silver done right, would sound full, beautiful and warm even possibly, in a good way, with crazy resolution.
I have friends who prefer coloured cables. I can understand using cables as system tweaks. But i prefer transparent cables that doesn't add or subtract, and getting properly voiced equipment.
In my opinion, AQ cables should work in any system. If they don't work, something along the chain doesn't sound right/ neutral. I could be wrong, but i do love my cables, the extremely black background, being virtually distortion free, the energy they allow to pass unhindered, the grip. They are just awesome.
I have tried plenty of their cables vs some other brands such as vertere, atlas, sablon, what ever friends have vs mine.
I started with two thunder power cords and a diamond AES. Once i heard the bass control AQ cables offer, in addition to detail, excellent sound staging, opennes, i could not stop.
Most of my cables are PSS or PSC+.
I have few firebird HC and source. I believe that's the sweet spot in the strom series. Hurricane is not bad, but firebird is has more sparkle and transparency. The only issue is its price!
Have firebird zero + thunderbird bi wire speaker cables conneting my diablo 300 to kef ref 5s, it feels just as there is no cable! Dynamics, transparency, and grain free. Doesn't sound too forward to me at all. I believe AQ cables are colourless, the just allow you to hear your equipment true sound. If you have something garbage in your chain, they will expose it.
The higher you go up, the more transparent, better everything. Before i started using AQ, i had a bad idea about silver cables. Turned out silver done right, would sound full, beautiful and warm even possibly, in a good way, with crazy resolution.
I have friends who prefer coloured cables. I can understand using cables as system tweaks. But i prefer transparent cables that doesn't add or subtract, and getting properly voiced equipment.
In my opinion, AQ cables should work in any system. If they don't work, something along the chain doesn't sound right/ neutral. I could be wrong, but i do love my cables, the extremely black background, being virtually distortion free, the energy they allow to pass unhindered, the grip. They are just awesome.