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Expensive

Expensive! No difference in quality of sound from single ended cables but did get twice the voltage to my preamp. Both sounded great.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

I decided to try balanced audio cables between my McIntosh preamp and power amp after attending a seminar of their benefits. I did find that they did reveal a bit more detail in my music that I would estimate at 5-10%. Whether you consider this a good value for $400 is an individual evaluation.

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Amazing

There is the sound of a cello, and then there is the cello. That's the difference this cable makes. The woody resonance of the cello body, the vibration of the strings as the bow moves across, the overtones. It is like getting a new better sound system. If you like your system now, you will love it with these cables. Better clarity, more detail, just an overall better, more listenable experience. When you play this for the first time to demo a track, you'll find you went on to three or four without realizing it. You can get lost in the music with these cables. At least, that is how it was for me.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

They work.

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Well, I hate to be the wet blanket here with all of these outstanding reviews but I used these to compare to an inexpensive set of cables that I had played only about 5 albums over (so no break-in on those cables or these cables, if you're into that kind of thing). These sounded terrible in comparison. Thin, muddy, not pleasing. So I ran one of these to one channel and one of the others to the other channel and had my wife switch the balance back and forth. No comparison. To my ears these cables are a waste of money. Can not recommend. But I ALWAYS recommend buying from Crutchfield. They are simply the best!!!

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Good cord for Audio

Good quality, well built cable that definitely contributes to imaging. The ends don't lock like most XLR cables I have used and they are VERY snug, tough to plug in on one end but I suppose that is a good connection

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Excellent Cables.

Excellent sound through these cables.

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Great cables

Well made, would buy again when needed.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

I went to a lot of parties back in the seventies, and everybody had a sound system, and every body played it loud, and it provided an atmosphere, but the technical performance was generally just bad. I wanted better than that now that it's not the seventies, but I'm in my seventies. I look at each piece of equipment that I own now pretty much every day, and think "I know exactly why I bought you." And, my system sounds FANTASTIC, and the technical performance is amazing. These cables are expensive, but am I glad I bought them? You bet.

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Excellent cable ends and overall cable construction

Replaced a pair of 20 year old audio technica PCOCC cables which were pretty high end at the time. The connectors were much better and the cable construction was very good. Cleaned up the upper mids and highs as I expected. Very nice cable.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

looks like a very high quality cable comes recommended by many. can't wait to try them out.

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Worthy

Really different sound coming out from this cable. I can hear some sound which I didn't hear before with regular XLR cable which about $50

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

WOW! My old XLR's were bad. What an improvement. Much more dynamics. High end is crisp.

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Superb quality, beautifully manufactured XLR audio cables. Adds warmth and detail compared to my previous cables.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

As advertised, works amazing!

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Noise free cable!

I was skeptical about these cables. The price is very expensive. When doing A/B comparisons of my lesser cables, the difference is very noticeable to me. My lesser cables seemed to amplify noise as I increased the volume of my source. However, now I can turn up the volume to max, with zero noise. Of course your source (amp) will max out at its limit. I am running NAD Masters M33 with my Wharfedale Lintons. They have never sounded this strong and clear!

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

These cables are excellent. The sound thru them is an improvement over what i originally had and at a very small price increase. They have a very nice appearance, and though not easily seen, i know they are there. Biggest positive, is to my salesperson who helped me out, she was excellent, patient and answered all my questions..kudos to her.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

Mackenzie are my go toTrusted Quality cables for my complete 2 channle Rig.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

Impressively well made cable. Also sounds great, at a moderate & acceptable price point. I will buy again, recommended.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

This is an excellent product. The terminations look like something a jeweler fabricated. Sonically there seems to be an increase in clarity and in the bass regions there is more roundness and weight.

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Mackenszie interconnects and PSAudio Stellar components

I found that I liked Mackenzie interconnects with my PSAudio gear long before PSA started recommending it. I have used balanced Mackenzies for preamp to amp, dac to headphone amp and headphone amp to preamp and find the results very satisfying after at least 200 hrs of use.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

They work great

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Great cable. It takes the edge off of some songs and they seem to have more definition.

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Well worth the money. No noise.

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AudioQuest just brings it!

I have moved up from the Big Sur line and the difference is awesome. AudioQuest has great build quality and material which comes through on the music. I think think the silver plating is better over the gold plating. I believe in upgrading your cables over stock ones, but not over doing. I needed separates cables to connect a power amp, the connecter were far apart on the power amp and the Big Sur is one cable limiting the distance. Glad I had this problem because I never would have spent the money, was very happy with the Big Sur line. So now even if the RCA or XLR connections are close I'm going with the Mackenzie line. Money well spent.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

You know you made the right decision, when the first thing you do in the morning is turn on stereo.

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Excellent cable big improvement in my system thank you crutchfield

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Decent entry XLR cables

Decent cable. Nice mid-range and good bass. Missing some air, sound stage and details compare to better silver and silver coated UPOCC XLR cables.

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Good price. Good quality

Sound great

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

If you have tens of thousands of dollars invested you home theater system or pro-summer system don't over look signal loss due to lower quality cables. the DB loss of off the shelf xlr cables verses these is not only measurable but audible.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

Great cables. Sounds quality is amazing. Stepped this up from a cheap lesser quality cable and I can hear the difference. Price was good for the quality. Thank you

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I love my XLR interconnects

Excellent cables. The choices of lengths is great, since I purchased the 0.5M and the 0.75M to keep the interconnection as short as possible. The connectors are extremely well made, and connect to the components with a solid precision....no wiggle room.

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AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR

Solid construction. Detailed sound. Good purchase.

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Worth the investment.

An audible improvement over my old XLR CABLES. Not radical but a nicer separation, more clarity and most important a boost to subtle effects which to me can make all the difference between a good listening experience versus a great one.

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Excellent cable. Improved the sound tremendously.

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