In Graig Neville’s recent review of the TEAC PD-505T transport, AudioQuest’s Cinnamon, Carbon, and Coffee coax cables take performance to a higher level. Not only do our cables provide significant performance benefits over common coaxial cables, but they also provide clear and repeatable paths to greater performance from one model to the next.
Graig writes:
"Replacing the 22-gauge coaxial cable with the Cinnamon yielded the most dramatic improvement in everything: better bass, more clarity, better treble, better sound stage and imaging. If you don’t buy any other cable, at least get the Cinnamon if you are using SPDIF. For under $80, the difference was dramatic...
Switching from Cinnamon to Carbon resulted in improvements in clarity and better bass with more slam, impact, dynamics and presence...
Upgrading from Carbon to Coffee was a significant step up. Not a $4 to Cinnamon improvement, but Coffee with the DBS system did everything better....
Coffee is definitely where you want to be."
Finally, in assessing overall value in relation to performance, Graig decides AudioQuest cables are just as impactful as any other component. He reflects:
"My experience with the AudioQuest coax SPDIF cables paralleled some of my USB cable testing I did a few years ago. I could hear a larger difference between cables than I did between the PD-505T and a cheap BluRay player...
You want to be a cheap audiophile, then go buy a sub $100 BluRay player for your transport. You could buy thirteen of them before you spend what the TEAC PD-505T costs. Heck the Coffee AudioQuest cable costs almost six times the cheap player and arguably was more important to the sonics."
Graig’s conclusions support the “AudioQuest Value Test.” When contemplating where to invest in an audio system, customers can ask themselves, “What is the least expensive way to make the most difference” — the test by which we measure all AudioQuest products.
More often than one might expect, AudioQuest will be the answer.
