Audience frontRow RCA Interconnects

Audience named this line for the best seat in the house, and the cables earn it. frontRow interconnects are built to bring you closer to a live performance: more presence, more texture, and the sense that the musicians are right there in your room. The Absolute Sound's Neil Gader placed them among the very best he had ever heard.

Sit closer to the music: that's what frontRow is named for.

The Design

frontRow is where Audience introduced MORRE (Musically Optimized Reduction of Resistive Energy), the umbrella for its most advanced technologies, and where it reserves its Proprietary Metallurgy Technology (PMT). Audience likens PMT to the rifling in a barrel: it treats the 99.9999% pure OCC copper conductors so the signal travels a freer, more direct path. Every frontRow cable then goes through Audience's Extreme High Voltage Process (EHVP) and deep cryogenic treatment, and each is handmade in San Marcos, California.

How It Sounds

Audience voices frontRow to bring you closer to the performance: a remarkably low noise floor, lifelike tone and texture, and a holographic sense of space. Reviewers have heard the same, with Positive Feedback describing unbridled transparency and The Absolute Sound placing frontRow among the very best.

Where It Fits

Use frontRow RCA between your source and preamplifier, or preamp and power amp. The RCA to DIN version connects tonearms with a DIN socket. frontRow sits just below the frontRow Reserve in Audience's lineup and above Au24 SX; pair it with frontRow speaker cable and powerChords for a complete frontRow system.

Press Recognition

• The Absolute Sound, Neil Gader, reviewing the frontRow interconnects and speaker cable. Gader placed them among the very best he had ever experienced. Read the review at The Absolute Sound
• Positive Feedback, Issue 134 (June 2024), John Acton, reviewing the frontRow interconnects and speaker cables. Acton described unbridled transparency, as if the cables had removed every source of noise and distortion, giving him unparalleled insight into his recordings. Read the review at Positive Feedback

Choosing between frontRow and frontRow Reserve, or RCA and DIN for your tonearm? Give us a call. We'll help you decide.

Specifications

• Type: Single-ended analog interconnect, sold in pairs
• Conductors: 2 x 24-strand plus 2 x 90-strand 99.9999% frontRow OCC copper, with Audience PMT
• Dielectric: Virgin cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE)
• Geometry: frontRow Double Cylindrical Perfect Lay
• Connectors: Audience rhodium-plated carbon fiber solderless RCA; tellurium copper center pin, beryllium copper ground contact
• Build time: 5 hours
• Terminations: RCA to RCA, or RCA to DIN
• Lengths: 0.5m to 2m in 0.25m steps; longer lengths by request
• Post-production: MORRE Deep Cryo II and EHVP
• Burn-in: 3 to 4 days
• Country of origin: USA (handmade in San Marcos, California)