AudioQuest Mackenzie XLR
Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Eric
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Richard
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Tony
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Joe
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Stephen
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Thomas
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
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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Reviewed on www.bestbuy.com·HappyMike
These Audioquest XLR cables are well designed and improved the sound quality of our high end sound system. The MacKenzie cables are worth the money.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Bryan
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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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Impressively well made cable. Also sounds great, at a moderate & acceptable price point. I will buy again, recommended.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Jason
Superb quality, beautifully manufactured XLR audio cables. Adds warmth and detail compared to my previous cables.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
You know you made the right decision, when the first thing you do in the morning is turn on stereo.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Michael
looks like a very high quality cable comes recommended by many. can't wait to try them out.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·David
WOW! My old XLR's were bad. What an improvement. Much more dynamics. High end is crisp.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Great cable. It takes the edge off of some songs and they seem to have more definition.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Mackenzie are my go toTrusted Quality cables for my complete 2 channle Rig.
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Reviewed on www.bestbuy.com·GeneTee
Super high quality cables ideal for excellent signal transmission.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Excellent cable big improvement in my system thank you crutchfield
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Solid construction. Detailed sound. Good purchase.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Cullen
Excellent cable. Improved the sound tremendously.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Gregory Scot
Well made, would buy again when needed.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Glenn
Excellent sound through these cables.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·Crutchfield customer
Well worth the money. No noise.
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Reviewed on www.bestbuy.com·Nikekid
These cables are phenomenal I am using them with my Schiit Bifrost 2 running directly balanced xlr out to my Lokius balanced out to my Singxer SA-1 Fully balanced Class A headphone amp running my Audeze LCD-X's with a balanced 4 pin xlr connector. Running balanced gives me a lower noise floor and greater detail in my music. I was using generic xlr cables, yet I was still skeptical of using higher end xlr cables in my system. I am a huge fan of Audioquest products I am using their cinnamon USB cable to plug into the Bifrost 2. Man I was so wrong the noise floor is lower than I could ever imagine, slight nuances where appearing in all my tracks I have never heard before. I was so impressed I bought 2 sets to completely replace my current cabling. I understand that spending large amounts of money on cables is crazy but If you simplify want to optimize your listing experience than these cables are definitely worth it.
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Reviewed on www.crutchfield.com·W Scott
As advertised, works amazing!
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Reviewed on www.bestbuy.com·Nikekid
These cables are phenomenal I am using them with my Schiit Bifrost 2 running directly balanced xlr out to my Lokius balanced out to my Singxer SA-1 Fully balanced Class A headphone amp running my Audeze LCD-X's with a balanced 4 pin xlr connector. Running balanced gives me a lower noise floor and greater detail in my music. I was using generic xlr cables, yet I was still skeptical of using higher end xlr cables in my system. I am a huge fan of Audioquest products I am using their cinnamon USB cable to plug into the Bifrost 2. Man I was so wrong the noise floor is lower than I could ever imagine, slight nuances where appearing in all my tracks I have never heard before. I was so impressed I bought 2 sets to completely replace my current cabling. I understand that spending large amounts of money on cables is crazy but If you simplify want to optimize your listing experience than these cables are definitely worth it.
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