"Audience’s Au24 SE powerChords, interconnects, and speaker cables are the most satisfying wiring products I’ve used in the last 39 years. They sit at the pinnacle of cable performance, and provide an attractive combination of big spaces, a very neutral sound and marvelously balanced performance, from the deepest bass to the highest treble". Doug Blackburn - SoundStage ULTRA - October '14 Read Full Review "Audience has clearly broken the price/performance barrier with their newest Au24 SE phono cables. No matter which cartridge is mounted in the 3D arm—the Lyra, Transfiguration or Koetsu—the Audience brings out the best attributes of each. The dynamics, solidity and resolution of the Atlas: the imaging, preciseness and low level resolution of the Transfiguration; and the realism and sense of space of the Koetsu. Without doubt, these phono cables are clearly at home in any analog system and really bring the music to life." Myles B. Astor - Issue #75 September/October '14 Read Full Review "With Audience's cables audiophiles quickly stop thinking about the sound; the music captures the listener and speaks for itself." Marcus Ganzherrlich - January '14 Read Full Review " The Audience phono cable, in a crowded field of contenders, soars above many of them with its alacrity and transparency." - JH, 230 Read Full Award “Yeah, they're THAT good!” Greg Weaver - Positive Feedback 2013 Writer's Choice Award Read Full Award
“ I for one stand tall in saying the Audience Au24 SE lineup is truly world class sitting high atop my list of products worth owning.” Anthony Nicosia - December '13 Read Full Review “What's more, the Au24 SE's level of overall performance is a step or two beyond that of my other reference cables…” Brian Damkroger - December '13 Read Full Review
"The Au24e Low Z distinguished itself with the Dynavector XX2 MKII moving coil cartridge bringing a lot of life to music and an addictive desire to constantly renew the pleasure." Michel Leroux - January '12 Read Full Review (new window) “The sound is fast, airy, and punchy. I liked the way it opens up the soundstage, particularly on classical music, where it allows you to hear row after row of an orchestra. Overall, the soundstage seems to be deeper than it is wide. Tonality is beyond reproach. It captures the bore of an instrument with great fidelity. What about bass? Can a diminutive cable create a big sound? Judging by the impact of the Au24, the answer is emphatically yes.” Jacob Heilbrunn -- July '09 Read Full Review “In a world of incredible hype, they lived up to Audience's claim that they create a more convincing illusion of reality and improve soundstaging. My reference cables do that pretty darn well, but the Audience cables improve the system’s performance in those areas”. Vade Forester - Feb '09 Read Full Review Audience has kindly sent me various products to audition. Their Au24 "e" audio interconnects are VERY neutral. Pleasing sound that tells the HONEST TRUTH about what your components really sound like while still being tuneful and musical. The "e" powerChord adds dynamics and the Adept Response Teflon power conditioner is great at cancelling noise while bringing out authoritative dynamics hidden in your playback system. The power conditioner is really amazing. If I wasn’t already married, I’d marry it. Add the Au24 "e" speaker cable and you have a true neutral, musical presentation! Steve Hoffman using all Au24 e and Audience powerChord e cables to remix Nat King Cole album to 3 channel SACD. Steve Hoffman, recording engineer - Dec '08 Audience Au24 "e" Loudspeaker Cables "We usually associate an increase in detail or resolution with some unwanted side effect, such as dryness, thinness, brightness, or some other negative “-ness” that is a definite compromise. Get more of “this”, but less of “that”. With the new “e” cable, there is more of the “this”, but no less of the “that”. There is an increase of smoothness, detail and resolution all across the frequency range without any sense, even a subtle one, that any compromise has been made. But make no mistake, for a small increase in cost the higher level of musical enjoyment is substantial." March '08 Read Full Review
“When system and all the component really start to evaporate, you know that you're on the right track. I can go on and on with the lists of music and references, but i wont. If you are serious enough about the music and reproduction AU24 speaker cables might be one of the most transparent, optimally balanced and affordable speaker cables on the market.” Matej Isak - August '08 Read Full Review
"I have used Audience au24 cables as my reference cables for over three years. They are so good I just haven’t thought about them." Jack Roberts - Apr '07 Read Full Review "I have used many brands of cable over the past three decades, including, but not limited to; Monster (the entire gamut of their products), Fulton, Polk, Cardas, JPS, D.H. Labs, Kimber, MIT, Audio Quest, Straight Wire, Herron Audio, Transparent, Gortz Alpha-Core, Silver Audio, Silver Circle Audio, Analysis Plus, Harmonic Technology, and now, the Audience Au24's. While I am able to note the differences every cable makes when inserted into my system, the Au24 marks the most fundamentally musical shift in performance I have yet to experience. In addition, that transformation has been universal in my experiments across equipment with price tags ranging from $200 to $8000. Don't let these skinny little blue cables escape your attention. These are world-class cables that, given the price tags of some of their portentous peers, represent an excellent value as well." Greg Weaver - Writers' Choice Awards - Dec '04 Print Version "Backgrounds are quieter, especially on older analog recordings. Micro dynamic events are rendered with superior detail and in more realistic scale, and thereby take on a greater musical significance, most likely attributable to the enhanced sense of the "darker" background. There is a general sense of ease and organic-ness to the overall presentation; it is akin to the sound of good analog in that respect. Whether that is due to an overall coherence the cable offers, or perhaps a very good impedance match, I can't say. But, it offers a more nuanced presentation, much closer to live music than I have had with ANY other cable I've auditioned; and believe me, I've played with more than a few." Greg Weaver - May '05 Read Full Review Print Version "I find that the system as a whole with Au24 interconnects and speaker cable running from one end to the other now sounds more natural than it did with Valhalla. I am significantly less aware of "The System" and its sonic virtues, and more aware of musicians and music". Robert Neill - Oct '02 Read Full Review "Everything that passes through the Au24s comes out sounding pleasing - not sweet, not pretty, pleasing, and where appropriate, even elegant... I found I was now listening to my reference Valhallas as if they were the newcomers up for review". Robert Neill - Oct '02 Read Full Review "Can you tell that I like this stuff? My customers certainly do. But don’t trust me -- I’m only one set of ears. Find a dealer and take some Audience cables home for a try." Bill Brooks - Jan '06 Read Full Review "Its sound is fast, open and transparent. The Au24 S/PDIF cable proved to be something of a sonic enigma -- its signature was only identifiable in relation to the other cables. On its own, it offers a large portion of every positive attribute and no discernible sins. Most notably, compared to the I2Digital cable, the Au24 portrays density along with the speed and openness. Images are full and weighty; in video terms, I would say that the picture is more color-saturated. All of the detail is there, but the perspective is different -- the music is portrayed in a more tangible way." Marc Mickelson - Dec '04 Read Full Review Print Version “The Audience Au24 interconnects and speaker cables are commendably neutral and natural, and they help you forget about chasing the pot o’ gold at the end of the audiophile rainbow. These are attributes that the best cable should embody. I expected a cable so tiny to limit dynamics, but nothing like this happened – even with amplifiers up to 250wpc. Also, spouses and decorators are going to find a small-diameter cable like this a lot more domestically acceptable than a music hose or other visually distracting cables.” Doug Blackburn - Mar '03 Print Version "They are among the best cables at any price... given an honest chance (as honest as they are in their signal delivery), you very well may find yourself regarding them as cables that put a smile on your face and joy before your ears." Jim Merod - Feb '04 Read Full Review
"The cables you choose should leave you with no doubt that better performance can be had only at a far greater cost that would be out of proportion with the cost of the rest of your system. The Conductor cables from Audience fit this description well. I can think of no good reason to spend more on cables for an affordably priced system. While using the Audiences, I never once longed for more. The Conductor is the affordable cable I’ll be recommending to friends and family." Eric Hetherington - Feb '05 Read Full Review "...the Conductor is the closest thing to a best buy in this group." Paul Seydor & Neil Gader - Oct/Nov '02 Equipment Report Print Version