Hey trel. I just got a pair of Diamond3 interconnects. Ouch. At half price, they're still too expensive. I think I will be keeping them, however. The Diamond3 improves on the bass speed and power of the Lapis3. I wish I had another pair of Diamond, so I could get try the system with Lapis or Diamond throughout the system. The Lapis is much more organic and focused and natural sounding as compared to my last copper job, the TARA Labs Master gen 2(on sale now). But the Tara has sounded better than the Lapis in friends' sustems, so obviously, YMMV. IF you get bored, and you are pretty sure you want to buy something, anything (practically) within the next few months, audition some cables from the "library" - The Cable Company! www.fatwyre.com. I've never purchased anything from them, but they have been kind and helpful. I'm sorry that I dont know anything good about the new AQ products. I DO know that now is the time to search for coveted items in AQ's discontinued, older product lines. You might lika da silver, heh???
New AudioQuest line
I am wondering about the new AudioQuest interconnects and speaker cable products. So far, I have only heard 2 or 3 of the new cables. They seem to be a good bit stiffer, and now feature updated cosmetics(guess someone out there worries about that stuff). While I thought they were pretty good, I wonder about how much of a step up from their old line they are. It seems the prices have taken quite a step up(surprise???). The CV-4, which they are really pushing hard(and says trumps a cable of their older line, which was 3X more expensive - Crystal or Midnight???), didn't sound as good to me as I recall Midnight. But it's been a few years since my last go around with Midnight... Does anyone have experience with the new line? If so, what do you think of these products? Are they very much better? Thanks for your opinions.