Time to add some impressions after living with the frontRow speaker cables for almost a year alongside Au24SX and Nordost Valhalla 2.
In my two systems i preferred the FrontRow by large margin to the SX - much more dynamic and direct, more texture and tonality. The Au24SX feels a bit lean and unbalanced by comparison even with relatively full sounding speakers (Devore O/96). Images are bit bigger than the the very clearly delineated imaging of the Au 24SX; a bit of a different presentation there. The frontRow feels more like life music and true to the concert hall, surprisingly in some ways even more so than the Nordost V2 in that aspect.
Out of the frontRow lineup the speaker cable is probably the most convincing and contributing to the presentation. The frontRow interconnects are richer and more detailed and nuanced than the SX, nicely complementing the speaker cable. If there is one frontRow I could keep it would be the speaker cable, but the interconnects is a good complement.
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