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I purchased the Fire. No, not a night and day difference, but overall the Fire is more balanced than the Niagara. There is a subtle difference that for some audiophiles it's hard to ignore. The most significant difference when I compared my Wireworld Platinum XLR to Niagara was with them going from the preamp to DAC. So, I have my Niagara going from amp to preamp. The Fire is going from preamp to DAC. I'll get another Fire in a month or so.
As far as speaker cables, I will have a home audition of Shunyata Alpha this weekend and hopefully Clarus Crimson in a week or so.
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I know I come off too much as a AQ fanboy, but they've done right by me over the years. |
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Mike,
Nothing wrong with advocating your preferences. I submit you do it in a very tactful way. I really wanted to try Audioquest speaker cables, but the local dealer doesn't have anything for me to audition. I called, texted, and emailed the Audioquest distributor to try to set-up a home audition. I contacted Audioquest directly and to date not one representative has responded.
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I just don't understand why the distributor won't return my calls.
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A couple of years back i was asking the Cable Co. about auditioning Audioquest cables and at the time, they had none. At some point, after pushing the issue, I was told they could arrange it through Audioquest so maybe pushing your dealer to get demos would have a more positive result than taking it upon yourself. As of yet i still haven’t heard AQ speaker cables, but something I’ve considered in looking over their construction is that, within each range, the speaker cables appear identical in construction except for conductor material. This differs from the construction of interconnects, where each model differs with respect to air tubes, conductors, and insulation. That’s leads me to think one could get a decent idea how their speaker cables may perform by hearing at least something in the range. At some point I’d still like to hear their higher end speaker cables give how favorably I feel their WEL interconnect performs.
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In the "audiophile mind", the 50 ft or longer runs of low impedance XLR cables that are used for the microphones that record the very same music we are trying to reproduce at home is just not good enough.
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They should supply you with a list of official re-sellers.
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This has me wondering what upgrading my Silver Eclipse XLR to something like Earth or wind would do for my system.
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Living Room Audio research LS28SE preamplifier, Aurender N10 Streamer, Topping D90 DAC, McIntosh MC462 amplifier. Focal Sopra 3 speakers. Salamander Archetype rack, Symposium Acoustics Segue shelves, Silver Eclipse 7 XLRs, Shunyata Everest power conditioner, Alpha V2, Delta V2 and Venom V2 10/12 power cords, and Audioquest Oak speaker cables. GIK Acoustic's bass soffits and 244 bass trap Art panels room treatments. Sony XBR75X900e 4K TV and Sony UBP-X800 Blu-ray player |
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mcpaf76,
Cables are so system dependant. I suggest trying a used pair of Niagara cables. How would you describe the sound of your Oak speaker cables?
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