Audience Conductor cable
June 9th, 2006 by George TyshchenkoAgainst my reference cable
American company Audience has recently introduced a interconnect cable specially made for iPod users. They have quite an impressive line-up of products, and their “Conductor” range also includes cables for use with microphones, instruments and various others for digital equipment. The iPod Interconnect 2-meter version retails for $100 (around £55) and is solidly build, with gold plated connectors and nice looking “Conductor” logo on the plugs. While there are many positive reviews of this cable based on subjective listening, I am interested how it performs with RightMark.
The manual states that the cable will perform well immediately, and will improve further with time so I have tested when the cable was new and then after 40 hours of playing white noise.
| Test | 0 hours | 40 hours |
| Frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB: | +0.05, -0.02 | +0.05, -0.02 |
| Noise level, dB (A): | -113.7 | -113.1 |
| Dynamic range, dB (A): | 90.1 | 90.3 |
| THD, %: | 0.0040 | 0.0040 |
| IMD + Noise, %: | 0.0083 | 0.0082 |
| Stereo crosstalk, dB: | -101.3 | -99.9 |
You can view the full RightMark report here
The Conductor’s performance with iPod turned out to be very impressive. On the individual tests it performed very close to my reference cable, especially better on frequency response, noise level and stereo crosstalk. I have used 4th generation iPod for testing. Because the build quality of this cable is very good I think it will perform great in any situation and wont be much affected by electrical cables nearby.
Overall I think Audience has made a very good product for this price, and I would recommend it to any iPod user wishing to use iPod in their hi-fi system.
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| Test | iPod 4G reference cable | Audience Conductor iPod 4G |
| Frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB: | +0.02, -0.11 | +0.02, -0.09 |
| Noise level, dB (A): | -105.2 | -106.8 |
| Dynamic range, dB (A): | 86.6 | 85.3 |
| THD, %: | 0.0097 | 0.0093 |
| IMD + Noise, %: | 0.015 | 0.015 |
| Stereo crosstalk, dB: | -103.9 | -105.7 |
You can view the full RightMark report here