News & Reviews

Introducing... DragonFly Copper

Meet your new best friend: DragonFly Copper — the most powerful, efficient, and beautiful DragonFly to date.

Dragon AC Power Cables Breathe Fire
The Absolute Sound’s Jacob Heilbrunn is hot for Dragon’s refinement, smoothness, and sophistication.
Blizzard Makes Music Sound Better
“The improvements were obvious and immediate,” says Twittering Machines’ Michael Lavorgna upon installing our Blizzard AC power cable.
Darko Audio Room Tour: AudioQuest Cables For Consistency
John Darko uses the same audio cables today that he used last year, the year before and the year before that. This video goes a little deeper on the what. The why is...
AudioQuest HDMI Wins the I²S Shootout
Armed with a Denafrips Terminator DAC, Soundaware D300Ref transport, Métronome AQWO music player, and AudioQuest HDMI cables, 6Moons.com's Srajan Ebaen explores the merits of I²S.
Crikey! NRG and Thunder Inspire Profanity
“Here is what I scribbled on my notepad, verbatim: ‘What??? It’s a mains cable FFS.’” We think “FFS” stands for “fantastic far-out sound,” but we’re not certain.
Tornado Startles Sleeping Dogs
With true curiosity and a healthy dose of skepticism, Stereophile’s Herb Reichert listens to our Tornado power cable. The results are compelling.
Time-Lapse: Rocket 33 Assembly
When Jana Dagdagan visited AudioQuest in 2017, she stopped in the production room to see how a pair of Stereophile-recommended Rocket 33 speaker cables are assembled.
Stereophile Visits AudioQuest
In 2017, Jana Dagdagan, then a videographer working for Stereophile, visited AudioQuest for a tour with Bryan Long and Joe Harley.
AudioQuest: Finding the Good Stuff
Writing for SoundStage Ultra, Peter Roth visited AudioQuest in 2016, at a time when products like our DragonFly DAC, NightHawk headphones, and Niagara power conditioners were grabbing headlines and capturing the...
Music: The World’s Most Popular Recreational Drug
On Saturday, November 8, 2014, at the TEDx Conference in Ostrava, Czech, AudioQuest founder William E. Low gave a talk titled, "Music: The World's Most Popular Recreational Drug."
AudioQuest DragonFly: As Rare as Rocking Horse What?
John Darko says DragonFly is as rare as rocking horse poo. This is a compliment, we think.
The DragonFly's Genius
From the start, The Absolute Sound's Robert Harley identified genius in the AudioQuest DragonFly.
AudioQuest DragonFly: The Industry Disruptor
The original DragonFly got people excited about what hi-fi could be, where it could go, and how it could impact our relationship with music. Read Art Dudley's review.

Theory & Education

The Case for Highly Optimized Power Conditioning
When it comes to the Alternating Current (AC) used in today’s homes, we’re relying on a century-old technology created for incandescent lights and electric motors. Our audio/video systems deserve better.
Dressing Long Speaker Cables
We recommend following The Absolute Sound's Substack, where the magazine's editors offer think pieces, share links to often fascinating articles related to music and sound, host a weekly Q&A, and...
Killing the Noise: Mythical Creature & Folk Hero Speaker Cables
Explore AudioQuest’s cutting-edge speaker cables, designed by Senior Director of Engineering Garth Powell. Learn how ZERO-Tech and RF/ND-Tech eliminate distortion and combat RF noise, delivering superior audio clarity.
AudioQuest 48G and eARC-Priority HDMI Cables Overview
Sound first. While 8K and other compelling video/gaming features make the HDMI headlines, AudioQuest’s 48 and eARC-Priority Series HDMI cables are our best-sounding HDMI cables yet. The precision and tighter...
Cable Directionality: It's All About Noise
If you’ve ever wondered about the arrows on AudioQuest cables, read any of our educational materials, or merely followed any of the online chatter regarding our products, perhaps you’ve wondered...
Power Demystified
In this detailed white paper by Garth Powell, AudioQuest’s Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll discover the essentials of AC power management for high-resolution audio systems.