Audience's Three-Cable Approach to Optimal Analog Playback
For each of the phono cables, Audience uses its
continuous-cast high-purity copper wire as well as low-loss geometry to preserve the
purity of the extremely low-level phono signal. Terminations include straight and angled
DIN along with RCAs and tinned leads for replacement of existing captive phono cables. |
cknowledging
the fragility of the signal that comes from a phono cartridge, which can be measured in
hundreds of microvolts, Audience conducted research into the electrical characteristics of
phono cables and came to the conclusion that one cable "cannot possibly serve as an
optimal tonearm-to-phono-stage interface." For this reason, Audience offers a trio of
au24e phono cables ranging in price from $479 to $1295, depending on electrical values and
terminations, for use with different kinds of phono cartridges. The Low Z cable is meant
for use with moving-coil cartridges whose internal resistance is up to 30 ohms, while the
High Z version is for moving-coil cartridges with resistance of 30-100 ohms. For
cartridges with resistance above 100 ohms, which includes most high-output moving-coil and
all moving-magnet types, there is the MM version of the cable.