Audioquest Rocket 44 speaker cable. Any good??

I was in my local high end "Audio Salon" last year and I mentioned to the sales dude that I was using modded (meaning I separated out the internal wires) AQ Type 8 as a biwire cable. The sales dude says' "Hey, why not ask Bill Low who's standing behind you?" HA! Bill visits this place from time to time it seems, so he pulls a pair of Rocket 33s off the shelf and explains to me how they work…very interesting, as was the rest of our conversation. In any case I did get a pair of 33s and they're amazingly good in my rig. I use AQ and Morrow elsewhere in the system with great sounding results, so the only non solid core cable is the excellent Jelco/Mogami (great noise rejection) "din" cable in my Linn.

213runnin

the NAD 565BEE is a very fine cd player. Are you using it as a transport w/ the Schitt DAC?

Happy Listening!

I am using the NAD as a source without the dac.  The Bifrost is converting my phone’s digital feed and I’m surprised at how good it can sound.

Good cables won't make your system sound better.  They will just make it suck less.  That is a quote from the President of Audioquest.  Can you imagine?

I used to be a big Audioquest fan.  Then I had a chance to compare the $8,800 Oak to a pair of $400 Clearview Double Helix v2 with Plus Upgrade and I just about fell over.  The Clearview cables didn't sound a little better, they embarrassed the Audioquest so badly it was unreal.  I felt like Neo in the Matrix and took the blue pill. 

Yeah, the quote is bang on, not sure if you agree with it or what.  The best a cable can do is do no harm to the signal.

But in this “comparison” between cables you mention there are so many missing pieces to the story. And it looks like you left them out on purpose, so I’ll just say good for you.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  Start a cable thread on any brand cable, and in short order you have haters with bizarre stories.  

And the inevitable mistical experiences with some other brand that has them doing back flips, it amazes me how every single brand out there has amazing improvements AND awful results.  How can it be anything else than either equipment mismatches or user error or hearing tastes that are bizarre?