It’s how it makes you feel. That is the the driver for the brands we work with, and the way we evaluate system set up. It is relatively easy for a system to get all the right notes in the right order and make all the instruments and voices sound like they should. Fundamentally though, it is about how the music makes you feel, and that is a little bit more difficult. It also is a lot to do with what you might refer to as accessories, we choose these very carefully too.

In a recent issue of HiFi+ magazine there is a piece about Audiomica cables and AcouPlex from MusicWorks, two brands that are key to the great sounds we make at shows.

I was introduced to Audiomica by a dealer who had discovered them. The cables allowed the music to play in a way no other combination did, although at the time I didn’t really understand what they were doing. Moving on a decade and a bit, despite trying multiple other cable brands, Audiomica are the only ones that play music they way we like.

MusicWorks was originally power blocks and are still the ones we use, although they have advanced quite a bit from the ones we used many years ago.

Continually looking at ways to better connect with the music, they have recently developed an amazing material called AcouPlex which does all sorts of wonderful things for managing energy, vitally important for system performance. Products using this material are now our isolation products of choice.

More than a dozen years ago, before I started Auden Distribution, these two brands were my go to for system set up. Now, as a distributor we work with both these brands and still use them at every event. The articles in the HiFi+ magazine say all this much more eloquently than I can, here are links to them.

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