Audioquest Niagara 5000 or 7000

AQ published a video tour of their Irvine CA headquarters, that shows their 7000 assembly stations (presumably 5000 as well?). And the capacitor burn-in machine in a different part of the building. There’s a lot of stuff that goes into those boxes!

If any of those are assembled in Taiwan, it would have to be the 1000.

slaw,

I have 16 of the HF MC-05's in my system using 3 dedicated lines.
I also have the Core Tech CPT 1800 balanced power.

ozzy

@ozzy ,

Right now I have a total of 6, three on each of my two dedicated lines. A 2nd generation Hydra on each.

I've been impressed with what I've read regarding the Core Tech, I'd have to change out too many power cords with the way I have my system set-up to integrate one. I felt the HFC MC-05s were the best option for me and after I heard what just two did, I was hooked.

Also saw the new Storm series cables are made in China, as printed on the box. Hmm...

@hamburger
Audioquest’s wire and cable braids have been made in China for many years now, since the cat-series interconnects. They are terminated (at least the upper lines), packaged and serviced in their USA headquarters. Not sure about their current high-end connectors (which are wonderful, across all types of cable speaker/power/IC), but when they used the Bocchino audio (RCA/XLR), those would have been made in Australia.

The 5000 and 7000 are definitely assembled in USA, and it appears to be quite a job.