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AudioQuest Rocket 11 £12.50/m

AudioQuest seems to pick up Product of the Year Awards the way a darts player picks up 180; three top scores in a row. And those gongs are well deserved because the Rocket 11 is right on target.

What appeals to us is how flexible it is. It’s easy to bend the cable around those tricky tight corners to reach your kit, without worrying you’ll break or damage the cabling. It uses semi-solid concentric conductors and long-grain copper to improve performance and reduce any interference that might degrade the quality of the sound.

Thoughtful touches such as marking the left and right cables, labelling which end goes into the amplifier and which end plugs into the speaker, and designing it so that you can use them in a singlewired or bi-wired configuration if your system demands it, make the Rocket 11 all the more easy and appealing to use.

But the best thing this AudioQuest cable does is get out of the way and simply let you enjoy the music. Whatever song

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