Comments on: AudioQuest Brave Heart Speaker Cables: $5,000 to Tame Electrons with Exotic Geometry and Make Your Amp Feel Special

By: STEPHEN FLESCHLER

STEPHEN FLESCHLER — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:44:06 +0000

I do think that is too low an estimate as AQ currently manufactures as of late 2025, hundreds of different cables across multiple major categories. All made in China. Difficult to conceive that so many variations should exist within one brand-the three boutique offer 3 lines for decades.
Speaker Cables: At least 74 different speaker cable products are available.
Analog Cables: At least 67 different analog interconnects and other analog cables are available.
Digital Cables: At least 39 distinct models of digital audio cables (coaxial, optical, etc.) are available.
Power Cables: At least 19 different power cables are available.
USB Cables: At least 29 different USB cable products are available.
HDMI Cables: At least 26 different HDMI cable products are available.
Turntable Cables: At least 26 different turntable cables are available.
Subwoofer Cables: At least 6 different subwoofer cable products are available.
Something is wrong with these many “choices.” I do not trust a company that can’t have less than half a dozen price tiers. AQ has way too many cables for each type of use/equipment. My opinion, not a fact.

By: STEPHEN FLESCHLER

STEPHEN FLESCHLER — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:35:01 +0000

I own three brands of cables. The $400 to $900 Grover Huffman Pharoah ICs, Speaker cables and Power cables. The finest competing against half a dozen SPDIF digital cables are also made by him. I have a mixture in my main listening room of near SOTA and SOTA equipment. The Von Schwiekert VR9SE MK2 speakers, Westminster Labs REI monoblock Class A SS amps with Quest 2 preamp and Jay’s Audio CDt3Mk3 use Westminster Labs Ultra power and XLR cabling with a Masterbuilt XLR for the EAR 324 phono-preamp. The boutique brand WL and MB cabling is more expensive than most AQ cabling. Hand built and once designed properly does not require “new models.” Why does it take AQ so many attempts to get it correct. Of course cabling also has to be matched to equipment; however, my three brands are adequate for my high end system or my $5,000 used equipment living room system (all Grover Huffman cabling). AQ as several other high end brands with primarily cable business can have incredible lines over decades (much like some speaker manufacturers such as B&W). An estimate of 500–1,000 different cables manufactured over the company’s history is a reasonable, educated guess that accounts for their extensive product catalog, AQ multiple price tiers, and continuous product evolution.

By: KDA

KDA — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:46:15 +0000

Hahahahahaha! These will get a LOT of praise from people barely able to hear up to 12kHz

By: Ian White

Ian White — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:23:27 +0000

In reply to Catherine Lugg.

Catherine,

Oh, they have plenty of chutzpah. More than you can imagine. Their affordable cables are quite good.

By: Catherine Lugg

Catherine Lugg — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:13:59 +0000

Quite simply: BWHAHAHAHA. I’m just astonished at the marketing chutzpah of this company. (“Braveheart?” Like that dopey Mel Gibson film from 30 years ago? )

These guys are going to drown in their gendered and ageist assumptions of who buys audio gear.

By: ORT

ORT — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:14:15 +0000

Really?! That would be wonderful! By all means, please do so if you think it is worthy 🙂

ORT

By: Ian White

Ian White — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:27:46 +0000

In reply to ORT.

ORT,

That needs to be your first column. And I’ll allow farting in your general direction.

Can we have Knights?

IW “King of the Who?”

By: ORT

ORT — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:07:18 +0000

If I may?

Another attempt at E.N.C., i.e. the Emperor’s New Cables.

“SIGH”…Talk about the arrival of “shittyocracy”. People worry about the arrival of A.I. but in truth there is more to fear from L.I.E.

Lack of Intelligence Everywhere. It’s a variation on the theme of “The Sixth Sense”. I see (and unfortunately hear) stupid people everywhere. When did it become fine and dandy to marry close relatives and produce banjo strumming ‘tards? At what point in the last 50 or so years did A.E. (Audio Enthusiasts) become frAudiophiles. When did they morph into bipedal, nearly hairless gigantic lemmings?

“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.” – Ming The Merciless

I want you to wake (not woke!) up right now, sit up, go to your local purveyor of audio stuff, open the door and walk in and and melodiously yodel – I’m as glad as hell and I’m not going to FAKE this anymore!

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”. Gaius Petronius Arbiter

More I hear you say?

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.” (Gaius Petronius Arbiter)

In the case of what passes (gas) for an Audio Enthusiast these days, they gather in conciliatory covens of kooks. And collect tubeses (aka: the “Precious”) and the lingering dust of decades old accolades from long gone false profits.

Do not get me wrong, cables and tubeses are wonderful things but they are not the Holy Grail of Audio and even the French would fart in your general direction if questioned about whether or not they had any. But behind closed doors, beyond sight you can bet they’re doin’ the audio version of the “Vatican Rag”.

Genuflect! Genuflect! Genuflect!

And yes. This is my audio/video raison d’être and hopefully I honor Gaius Petronius Arbiter, for he is a god amongst wordsmiths…small “g” mind you.

We now return control of your FapTop, DeskTop, Mac or Windows setup to you, until the next time at an as yet undetermined time, when the Control Voice will take you to… The ORTer Limits…

ORT