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Contents
Departments
• From the Editor
• On The Horizon
Cable and
interconnect
reviews
• WyWires Blue
• Survey: New Cables from
Cardas, MIT, and Wireword
• Wireword Equinox 7 and Eclipse
• Nordost Purple Flair
• EnKlein Amphora Phono Cable
• Crystal Cable Absolute Dream
• MIT Oracle MA-X SHD
• Transparent Reference XL
Digital Link
• Synergistic Galileo LE
• Acoustic Zen Absolute Copper
• Moon Audio Silver Dragon V2
• Wireworld Platinum Eclipse 7
• Audience Au24 SE
tHIS SECtIoN SPoNSorEd by
power Conditioner
and power Cord
reviews
• Audience Adept Response
• Shunyata Venom PS8
• Shunyata Typhon
• Synergistic Tesla
• 13 Power Cords Under $500
• Three Power Cord Upgrades
tHIS SECtIoN SPoNSorEd by
accessories
• Klaudio KD-CLN-LP200
Record Cleaner
• Auralic Gemini 2000
Headphone Dock
• Audio Desk Systeme Record
Cleaner
• Critical Mass Systems Sotto
Voce Equipment Rack
Music
• Feature: Beatles in Mono
• Feature: A Personal Discographic
Companion to
Inside Llewyn Davis
• Top Ten New CDs of 2014
• Top Ten CD Reissues of 2014
• Top Ten New Vinyl of 2014
• Top Ten Vinyl Reissues of 2014
• Top Ten Pop/Rock High-Res
Downloads of 2014
• Top Ten Classical High-Res
Downloads of 2014
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buyer's GuIDe to
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publisher.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Hannon
editor-in-chief
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executive editor
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acquisitions manager
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music editor
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FROM THE
editor
Welcome to the 2014
Absolute Sound Buyer’s Guide to Cables, Power Products, Accessories, and Music.
You
will find that this edition is filled with expert reviews of some of the best speaker cables, interconnects, power
cords, AC conditioners, record cleaners, and equipment racks on the market. In addition, we have included more
than 40 pages of the best musical releases of 2014.
Technology has come a long way in the past decade, and today’s high-quality speaker cables, interconnects, and
AC power cords can help you realize the potential of your system to an extent never before possible. With all the
electromagnetic radiation and RFI floating through our homes and introduced through power lines, upgrading
power cords can dramatically lower the noise floor of your reference system, while speaker cables and
interconnects that reduce or eliminate colorations can help deliver the transparent, finely detailed soundstage
you're looking for. Record cleaners have also progressed in leaps and bounds over the past ten years, with new
ultrasonic record cleaners that dig deep into the grooves to remove grime that’s been stuck between you and
your system’s true sonic potential for years (or decades). We've even included a review of an equipment rack
that is both sonically beneficial and visually striking. And we finish up with page after page of the best music of
the year, from LPs to digital downloads.
Given the sheer number of speaker cables, interconnects, AC
power cords, and audio accessories on the market, it is always
a daunting task for a consumer to choose the products most
worthy of valuable audition time. With this Buyer’s Guide, you
can narrow your list to a few candidates, and rest assured that
the components recommended are of the highest quality. We
hope this Buyer’s Guide will steer you in the right directions
and help you with your next purchases.
Happy listening,
Spencer Holbert
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audioQuest
Water, earth, Wind, and Fire analog interconnects
AudioQuest’s new “Element” line builds on the company’s 30 years of experience designing some
of the best cables on the market. Each cable in the Element Series uses a 72V dielectric-bias
system to maintain a constant charge, and therefore essentially eliminate the need for break-in.
The Elements also feature high-performance, state-of-the-art technologies, such as a carbon-
based, six- and eight-layer noise-dissipation system, solid perfect-surface conductors, controlled
directionality, and air-tube insulation. The Water, Earth, and Wind interconnects are available in
RCA or XLR terminations, which are cold-welded with hanging-silver plating over red copper; the
Fire interconnects take things to the next level with WEL-type, double-contact, extreme-purity
terminations available in RCA or XLR. As always, the AudioQuest Water, Earth, Wind, and Fire
interconnects are wrapped in a sleek, braided dielectric, which makes a sonic and visual statement.
starting price:
Water, $450/0.5m; Earth, $750/0.5m; Wind, $1495/0.5m; Fire, $2145/0.5m.
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