AudioQuestEvergreen RCA-to-RCA 2.0m

Oh, audiophile cables, how I love you so. A source of endless entertainment, both from the wattses and voltageres that you carry from my DAC to my amp, and from the mind-numbing copy that graces your packaging. The box for the Evergreen starts out with a lovely story about where the cable gets its name. Apparently this cable is named after a bridge in Washington that, I kid you not, "because of structural issues, a replacement is inevitable." So, before we get to all the buzzfeatures, our cable is compared to a rickety old bridge -- failed marketing maneuver, or planned obsolescence?So on to the features. First up is that the cable is made of 'long grain copper,' which is a positive. My last cable was made of long grain rice, and that was not ideal. The sound was kind of wet, a bit sticky. I much prefer the long grain copper that the Evergreens are made of. The second selling point is 'solid conductors,' which again is the mark of a quality product. Back in the late nineties I tried a fancy new audiophile cable that used highly salinated water, touting their second point as using 'liquid conductors,' but as anyone with a cat and a waterbed knows, some things are really best left solid. Point three is the 'Double-balanced asymmetrical geometry,' and while I don't know what that means, I have always found symmetry a bit boring (but balance crucial!). Point four is 'asymmetrical conductor sizes,' which reminds me of my train ride into DC with my short, sassy conductor and my tall no-nonsense conductor. Good guys to have around when you're in a jam, so I'm going to give the Evergreen some credit here for their conductor dream team. Point five is the 'Metal-Layer Noise Dissipation System,' which, I'm not even going to make a joke here, I think is just a really silly word for 'shielding.' The last feature is 'Foamed Polyethylene Insulation,' which sounds like the itchy stuff in my walls, and I will say that my music has a nice itch-that-needs-to-be-scratched quality about it. The final word on the box is the instruction to make sure that the arrows point from your source to your destination. I botched this one rule up and everything sounded like a 128kbps MP3. Then I realized I was actually listening to a bunch of 128kbps MP3s, and that was easily rectified without disconnecting my fancy green cables.I'm not a believer in audiophile cables, and at ~25 dollars, this can hardly call itself an audiophile cable. It's not made of 101% oxygen-free silver copper Dalmatian. The insulation hasn't been injected with nitrogen or helium or radon. Heck, it hasn't even been doused in holy water! And to boot, it's named after a failing bridge. But there are a few things that make this cable worth the 25 bucks. First, the construction is solid. The connectors feel great. Tough, solid, yet not so massive that you can't get two paired up in a tight set of jacks. The cables themselves, the combination of conductor material and insulation also feel sturdy. Sturdy, yet flexible enough to maneuver without issue. That sounds silly, but it really can alleviate quite a bit of frustration when you're snaking cable around. The connectors are gold plated, and while I don't have much faith in that improving my tight, tight bass response, I have had trouble over the years with lesser connectors oxidizing, and that never ends well for anyone. Gold should hold up better in this regard. The cables also seem well shielded, something that actually has a great deal of impact, and that lesser cables often fail at. The path my interconnect between DAC and amp takes is not too pleasant, and the cheap interconnect I grabbed from an old parts bin was picking up all sorts of line noise, hard drives spinning up, CB radio, EVP, you name it. These cables really are well insulated from all the nonsense interference that tries to infiltrate our earwaves.So, while I'm terribly leery in products that contain more laughable market-speak than relatable features, I can't help but recommend these. For a fairly low price, you get great construction, shielding that actually helps keep your signal clean, and gold plated connectors that will help prevent an oxidized mess from binding them to your components. And unlike its eponym, I think this cable is going to last me quite a while.

I've been a borderline audiophile for quite some time now. At this point, I'm pretty pleased and proud of my setup. I just recently got a new power amp for my 2.1 setup and wanted to make sure I had a quality cable feeding the amp.Some people swear that cables make a tremendous difference, other people swear the other way. I guess I'm somewhere in the middle, but leaning more toward them being important. In the digital world, I believe that you have a connection or you don't. In the analog world, I think quality components make a big difference.--- Construction ---The cable is nice and thick with quality elements. There don't appear to be any stress relievers on the ends, but maybe that won't make a big difference. Each end has directional arrows which indicate which direction the signal should go. I've never understood how that would make a difference, but it's there if you care.The only problem I have is the amount of slack after the fork in the cable. My amp's inputs are so wide apart that this BARELY reaches. It shouldn't be a problem for most people, though.--- Sound Quality ---I'm not going to pretend there's a huge difference here (if any at all). I need to believe that there's a bit of a placebo effect going on. AudioQuest claims there will be better quality, so there must be, right? Well who knows.As I A/B'd this cable versus a cheaper pair of competitor's connectors, I feel like I noticed a tiny difference, with the AudioQuest coming out on top. The difference was mainly in low-end definition. But like I said, I could be imagining things.--- Value ---I'm happy with the purchase. When you consider that I could get a Belkin PureAV pair for 1/3 the price, it makes me question the decision. However, I'm pleased with the sound quality (whether it's different or not) and the build quality is superb.

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Great interconnects for the price point. Only problem like others have said where they "split" doesn't really give you a good stretching distance. But over all sound quality is very good

In a weird geek sort of way...yes! I'm a common sense good quality cable person. I bought the Evergreen because the interconnect will be in plain sight and I wanted a cable that looked good. I use Knuconceptz Krystal Kable for most other interconnects and am surprised the Audioquest's are so much thinner. The Evergreen is a high quality cable and are made well. The RCA connectors have a snug fit as well as looking great. I like to think that Audioquest offers high quality cables for reasonable to unreasonable pricing depending on your cable belief's.

Excellent product for a decent price. AudioQuest big sur series is almost indiscernible to these cables for almost half the price. Although the big sur series has a slightly better cable quality, i dont see much other reason to buy the more expensive line unless they're going to be out for show. My pre-amp is pumping out a healthy amount of power and these cables handle everything with clear detail.

Got two pairs, this and the plastic black jacket ones. Both cables are not good to connect a turntable to an external phono stage. Very noisy. Just touching them, the jacket of the wire, will produce static noise. The greens (these ones) were OK on one channel, but with buzz on the other. Better than the black jacket ones, but still unacceptable.Waste of money. My 10 years Monster Cables are much, much better. Almost quiet, unless I turn my amp at max. Only then I can hear a slight buzz.

Other reviewers have gone deeply into the tech involved so I am going to skip that. The bottom line is that for the money these are some of the best interconnects you can get. The sound was good and they went on and came off easily.If you're a stereophile and want $1K/ft interconnects this isn't for you. If you just want some good interconnects for a reasonable price, buy these.

Great quality cable. Not too expensive!

Achetés au nombre de 2 pour relier mon pré-ampli NAD à mes 2 blocs amplis NAD, ces câbles ont tout de suite amené une vilaine "ronfle" !Je n'ai pas compris au début et il m'a fallu chercher la cause. Mais elle a été sans appel: dès que je connectais ces câbles RCA sur les blocs ampli (sans même les raccorder à mon pré-amp !), la ronfle apparaissait. Et elle était très audible !Nouvel essai avec des "real cable" et "Oehlbach" et là, nickel.Et c'est la 2e fois que j'ai ce genre de déconvenue avec cette marque de câbles (pourtant dans des utilisations très différents dans les 2 cas!). Pourquoi ? ça...Je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de renvoyer ces 2 câbles RCA...

Terza coppia di cavi acquistati per un secondo impianto audio.Li consiglio per il rapporto qualità prezzo.

Compre un cable reacondicionado y nada más abrir la caja me di cuenta de que el cable que había dentro no era el cable original si no un cable corriente que no era Audioquest, sin marca y de mala calidad, inmediatamente lo puse en conocimiento de atención al cliente de Amazon y procedieron a la devolución del cable y compre otro pero esta vez nuevo. En cuanto a la calidad de este cable es muy buena pues es un cable que conozco desde hace tiempo y poseo otros de otras longitudes y siempre me han dado muy buen resultado pues para mí la marca de cables Audioquest es una de las mejores del mundo y este modelo en concreto con muy buena relación calidad precio.

Ich hatte diverse Störgeräusche in meine Anlage. Habe verschieden Kabel (auch ganz kurze) ohne Erfolg ausprobiert. Selbst angebliche "High-End" Kabel, die schon mal 20 Euro kosten. Das audioquest Kabel hat es dann gebracht. Wirklich sehr sinnvoll und jeden Euro wert.