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Still have the AQ Quartz, eh?




On 1/19/91, when I was less than a year into high-end audio, we saw rock band Vixen, at The Stone in San Francisco. It was empty! We were in the front row, and got to high-five lead singer Janet Gardner.

Vixen were, somewhat oddly.......very professional. They didn't mess around. Consequently, that show got me thinking more about the role of cables. In those days, most audiophiles wanted cables to act as a tone control. I mean, why not make everything sound the way you want it? But there was this silent minority, advocating that cables should actually have as little sound of their own. The argument went, "Why are you throwing away what you've paid for (in electronics and speakers), by using bad cables? Since you've spent so much on electronics, why not get the most out of them, by using cables which are sonically invisible? "

During spring break 1991, I came home to San Francisco, and tried several models of AQ interconnects. The Quartz opened up the middle, and this was the first time I ever got a so-called "soundstage" out of my home stereo. --All because the interconnect did not collapse what was coming from the CD player.



Do a search right here on Cable Asylum, about the Quartz. It's actually much better than we thought. But in order to unlock that potential, we need to employ a cable burn-in device. Here, a Quartz is being run on an audiodharma Cable Cooker.


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