Audioquest Water interconnects

Contemporary Audio Quest power cables are nothing less than revelatory. There had to have been a redesign of their High end stuff a two or three years ago, because prior to that they were nothing to write home about. 

The Audio Quest cable with the boxes on them... tend to be much better sounding than their predecessors. I was listening to some of their top of the line ones yesterday (over $50K). 

Over the past decades, in part because of the incredible plethora of cables I concentrated on some well reviewed and respected brands. Transparent are my go to, Cardas, Wire World (I don’t buy them any more), Nordost, DHL as budget, and a couple others. 

You can find other great sounding cables. But with break in of over a hundred hours, often two hundred hours, evaluating them and knowing the basic characteristics, so to optimize your system becomes a gargantuan task. So, getting to know some very well known brands and their characteristics (house sound) makes the task more predictable although not simple. 

So Cardas is warm and natural... the warmer the more budget oriented they are, Transparent are not even slightly harsh but completely transparent, Nordost very incredible in their high end products with great transparency. DHLabs... surprisingly well balanced and good sounding for the money... I start here if I am not sure where to go.

If I had to build a new system now, I would use all of either Transparent, Cardas, or DHLabs, with power cords from AudioQuest. 

Since you have Audio Quest. I would try the lending library from the Cable company and compare Audio Quest with Transparent. That way you can confirm against something that is know to be phenomenal cables. Your system components look very well balanced, so you probably want neutral. If you are trying to stay cheap... go DHLabs... the best you can afford. 

Thanks!  I have a Transparent Performance Power cord. I thought improving the interconnects made the most sense. I also thought the Audioquest Water was a good value at the price point if I stuck with Audioquest for the loom effect among the speaker cable and interconnects. 

We were aq dealers some years ago we had the water and others in that series compared them to wireworld and the wireworld interconnects were superior 

Dave and Troy

AUDIO INTELLECT NJ

Wireworld dealers 

@ghdprentice is correct. do the lending lib rary at thecablecompany.com the best way to go. I upgraded once from a set of AQ Yukons to AQ Water, it was a good step up, but I was not in love with them. Have since moved from AQ back to Nordost. I would say get a set of Water and a set of Nordost Heimdall 2's they are both in the same price range. it should be great fun. Moved my entire system to Nordost Heimdall 2.

and I mean get them from the lending library