Soundstage, richness, high end detail without earaches

Heavy and stiff-- re-terminated with bananas make them stay put in speaker binding posts.

I have listened to a lot of cables this year as I upgraded speakers twice. Did interconnects next and then on to speaker cable tryouts. Budget became a factor and I finally settled on Audioquest Type 4+ as a compromise. Liked them a lot (they're great for the price) and then researched oher Audioquest cables, looking for more soundstage and high-end resolution. Indigo+ is an older cable which would roughly correspond to the current model, Bedrock. I've got a single biwire set and they are phenomenal. It took 3-4 days at 6-10 hours per day to settle down/break-in, but once they did the results were great. Notable for lows, soundstage, imaging and great detail. I think if I spent $100-200 more I could perhaps get more high end resolution for classical music. But having listened to a number of top quality cables, the trade-off for high end detail is sometimes listener fatigue (my speakers have a metal tweeter). So, the Indigo+ brought 92% of the great stuff into my system without frying my ears. Enough said. Very happy.

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Mapleshade Double Golden Helix, Audioquest Type 4+, Audioquest CV-4, Nordost Flatline Gold, Alphare Goertz MI(2), DH Labs T-14

meaty bass and great stereo imaging, clarity of my stereo was greatly improved by this product.

Very stiff cable

When I first installed this on my system, I was a little sceptical about it, but as the hours passed and the cable warmed up, it turned out to be a very effective cable and delivered what it promised. It took the edginess off of the vocals and extended the bass so much so that the underlying bass wasnt just felt anymore, it was heard to great extent. Although many people may say good products speed up a stereo, I believe that it makes it sound slower as the sound is more precise, thus it gives your brain less to concetrate on and thus gives the illusion that the music is flowing slower than before. I would recommend this product to anyone who has a stereo that is lacking in low frequency and wants a punchier system without having to replace those costly seperates. Great! I don't know how much this cable is in the US, although i would believe its cheaper as it originated there.

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Audioquest Type 4

Clarity, imaging, depth, sweet natural sound

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The cables I have are the new Indigo+. I was very skeptical about the improvement that speaker cables could make. Boy, was I wrong. I have broken them in for about 60 hours and they keep improving. These are not overly expensive at $7/foot, and if you want dramatic improvement in your system give these a try. They make the speakers disappear.

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Monster 12 Ga.

While at $7.00 per foot many persons might not consider this cable to be cheap, I find the Audioquest Indigo 2 speaker cable to a bargain among both this manufacturer's line of cables and that of competitors. Because of room layout, I am forced to use rather long 30 foot runs of Indigo from my amplifier to each of my two speakers. Even at this length, performance of this #13 A.W.G. cable does not seem to suffer. I terminated both lengths myself with the excellent KimberKable Postmaster spade connectors and silver content solder. This cable is made up of multiple individually insulated solid wires. within an outer sheath. If you are not good with cable strippers/proper soldering iron technique/heat shrinking etc., have these cables terminated by a dealer. Termination involves a significant amount of delicate hand work. Terms I find describe the sound of this cable include, airy, detailed, transparent, smooth and balanced. To do better I believe one would have to spend significantly more money. I give Indigo 2 five stars for its performance versus price. My playback system consists of Classe CDP-.5 CD player, AudioTruth Lapis interconnect, B&K MC-101 pre-amp, AudioTruth Lapis Interconnect, Classe CA-300 power amp, AudioQuest Indigo speaker cable, Mission 765i floor-standing tower speakers [4-ohms nominal impedance], Lightspeed CLS-6400 a.c. line conditioner, separate, dedicated 120 V, 15 AMP isolated ground a.c. branch circuit for audio components. Tweaks: TDK and Big Blockers digital noise absorbers, AudioQuest Laserguide.

When I first heard the Indigo I was impressed by the clarity and detailed soundstaging of the instruments. Then I put on some vocals, the voices sound so unfocused that I could not believe what I was hearing so I put on my Amanda McBroom and Eva Cassidy etc. The band sounded pretty good but it seemed like the singer had gone to the toilet but had continued to sing from the toilet....while the toilet door was shut.

Another bad recommendation from Magazines, Listen to the vocals when you audition these cables...pretty bad.

Super easy bi-wiring, long-grain copper

aggregate wire gague is rather small, very stiff cable

It's just too bad AQ discontinued this cable and it's bretheren. But I'm not too unhappy as I just snagged a 5' biwired terminated pair for $53 with tax. They sound great, they removed that hint of brightness and "muddling" in my system that had been ravaging my FM listening, and cleared up that overdriven buzz from silent passages in vinyl and CD. Takes extraordinarily well to being terminated, I put my clips back on after testing sound quality with bare wire. Get 'em while they're hot, AQ's new line is too expensive for not enough quality.

System as follows:
Rotel RCD975 CD deck-->MITerminator 3 interconnect
Rotel RP6800 turntable-->Rotel phono pre-->XLO er-5 ic
Mondial AmFitheater 1 reciever
AudioQuest Indigo speaker wire, bi-wired, spade lugs on reciever end, banannas on speaker end
DBX SoundField V speakers (great, read review under SF 1a)

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Kimber 8TC, XLO ER-11

Let me say that I was a non-believer of the stated improvements high-end audio cable could produce. Now I am the preacher!. After graduating from Monster cable XP and NW through the years, I recently added AudioQuest's Indigo to my system. Wow, what a difference. I dont have "golden ears" and can't recite the differences between soundstage and linear phase shift, but I know what sounds good to me. These cables are an incredible improvement. The most dramatic improvement came through in the bass and midrange. So much tighter and cleaner than I had been used to before. For $7.00 foot, this cable is most likely going to appeal to others like me who are graduating to a first set of high performance wires. I had my dealer make the 10' pair and used Audioquest spades on both ends. I feel sorry for them, however, as they wont be getting my money for the new subwoofer I had planned on purchasing! No need for it now ;-)

Meant to buy AudioQuest Type 4 but the store was out, so they gave me Indigo. This stuff is amazing. I hear things in every medium (record, CD, tape) I never heard before, even on recordings I know very well. My system is mid-fi at best (Onkyo receiver, Harmon Kardon CD, Thorens turntable, Marantz speakers) but it sounds so much better with the Indigo cables you'd think I'd upgraded everything. (Don't believe anyone who says that cheap cable sounds the same as good cable. I compared right channel Indigo and left channel cheap stuff on a mono CD. The Indigo was musical. The cheap stuff was harsh, ugly, distant. Good cable is worth it.)

Great clarity, bass, dynamics

stiff

I love this cable. It really made a miracle to my system and resolved the detail I didn't know existed.