The very LAST thing AQ, and their dealers, want you to do, is buy used cables instead of their new cables. That's likely the main reason for the change in nomenclature. Perhaps they saw that too many people were buying their old cables from consumers, rather than buying new ones of the same model from their dealers. It's all just business...you know, cause they gotta have that new money coming in. The technology looks the same to me, as in the old line: "triple balanced, hyperlitz, hyper pure, grain optimized, spread spectrum technology" yada yada, with "perfect surface" being the new buzzword...seems like you'd want long grain all the way throught the conductor, not just a "perfect surface". If you want a silver AQ interconnect, the Amazon model is your only choice...it's like quadruple the price of the previous all-silver Diamond x3. They must think their market has suddenly exploded in size...It might, if enough of you guys stop wasting money on $50,000 SUV's to pull your $50,000 bass boats...who am I kidding, that'll never happen!!
