“…Audience has hit a home run with the Forte F3 PowerChord.”
David Jensen, April ’18
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Audience Au24 SX powerChord Receives TAS 2018 Editors’ Choice Award
Audience Au24 SX powerChord
The fully revamped SX brings to the table new Furutech Nano Crystal Fiber connectors, improved, cryogenically-treated metallurgy and refurbished insulation making for across-the-blard sonic improvements. Among them, a lower noise floor, a fully dimensional soundstage and sparkling imaging. Offered in two versions: medium-power for DACs, preamps, and phonostages, and lower-powered integrated amplifiers; and high-power for power amplifiers. NG, forthcoming.
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Audience aR12-TSSOX Receives TAS 2018 Editors’ Choice Award
Audience adeptResponse aR12-TSSOX
To Greg Weaver’s ear, Audience’s new aR12-TSSOX power conditioner represents a substantial improvement over its predecessors, so much so that it would be fair to say that it borders on an order of magnitude advance. This is a world-class device, deserving your full attention. Give one a listen– perhaps the 6- or 12-socket variety –but be prepared to buy it. If you are anything like GW, there is no chance it will come out of your system once it is in place! GW, (268)
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Power Conditioners Receive 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 TAS Editors’ Choice Awards
Used with a CD player, the aR2p-Audience’s compact, dual-outlet power conditioner and isolation device-enhanced soundstaging dimensionality, and depth. The 12-outlet aR12 was also found to be extremely effective, capable of delivering significant improvements in bass definition and depth, overall resolution, and soundstage depth.
162, 179, 186, 235
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Audience Wins The ONE 2018, 2017, and 2015 Editors’ Choice Award from The Absolute Sound!
Audience The ONE
The ONE, as you might infer from its name, is a single full-range driver shoehorned into a small box. The driver itself is the same unit, the A3S, that Audience uses in its flagship $72,000 16+16 speaker. According to Audience, the A3S has exceptionally flat response, claimed to be +/-3db from 40Hz to 22kHz. Be that as it may, properly set up The ONE is the best desktop speaker reviewer Steven Stone has heard (after the Audience 1+1). SS, 236
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The Absolute Sound 2018, 2017, 2016 Editors’ Choice Awards Go to Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V2+
“Don’t let the 1+1 V2+’s nearly identical appearance to the 1+1 fool you; this newly upgraded version is a huge leap over its already superlative predecessor.”
Robert Harley – February ’16
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TAS Editors’ Choice Award for PowerChord SE 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Audience powerChord SE
The Audience powerChords offer bass clarity, weight, and pitch resolution that place them at or near the top of the affordable-power-cord pack. Except for a slight treble congestion and somewhat laid-back overall presentation, there is little deviation from tonal neutrality.
NG, 208
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2018, 2017 TAS Editors’ Choice Award for Au24 SX Cables
Audience Au24 SX
Speaker, $3290/2.5m;
Interconnect RCA, $1800/1m
($2375/2m)
Audience’s Latest flagship wire offers midrange weight and sweetness, vivid dynamic contrasts, excellent transient speed, sensitivity to delicate volume gradations, and a brilliance that casts light into the deepest corners of the soundstage, restoring air and lift to harmonics. A particular strength for all Audience cables is an often hard-to-achieve blend of tactile presence and back-of-the-hall reverberation. The Au24 SX strikes a fluid and natural balance of ease, articulation, and immersiveness. Flexible and easy to handle, too.
NG, 269
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2018, 2017 TAS Editors’ Choice Award for Au24 SE Phono Cables
Audience Au24 SE Phono Cable
$1290/1m
The Audience phono cable, in a crowded field of contenders, soars above many of them with its alacrity and transparency. Extremely flexible and lightweight, the phono cable is simplicity itself to use. Coupled with its jackrabbit speed is a naturalness of timbre that makes for refined and seductive listening. It also seems to filter out external noise effectively.
JHb, 230
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2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 TAS Editors’ Choice Award for Audience OHNO Cables
Audience OHNO
“Sonically these featherweights were quick and extended with well-focused imaging and dimenstionality. More significantly they were not additive, nor did they crimp dynamics.”
NG, 264
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