Audience frontRow Reserve PowerChord

Every component in your system draws its power through a cord, and that cord can either carry noise in or keep it out. The frontRow Reserve powerChord is Audience's finest answer: the frontRow powerChord's acclaimed design, with silver added to the conductors and a more extensive grounding and shielding scheme built specifically for the Reserve.

Audience's quietest power, for components that reveal everything.

The Design

Audience built the Reserve on its award-winning frontRow cables, then blended a judicious amount of high-purity silver into frontRow's proven copper conductor geometry. Copper brings warmth and natural tonal weight; the silver adds speed, openness, and top-end detail. The result keeps everything listeners love about frontRow and lets more of the music through.

Audience also embeds its own formulation of natural crystal materials inside the cable, tuned to absorb high-frequency noise, and wraps everything in a new EMI/RFI-resistant outer sleeve with additional internal shielding. Less noise means a blacker background, so the small details of a recording, the room reverb, the breath before a phrase, the decay of a cymbal, come forward on their own.

How It Sounds

Audience voices the Reserve for a significantly lower noise floor with increased resolution and dynamics, and a more fleshed-out, resolute presentation, especially at the lower end of the spectrum. Positive Feedback recognized the frontRow Reserve powerChords alongside the cables in its 2024 Writers' Choice Awards.

Where It Fits

Start with the component that matters most in your system, often the DAC, preamp, or power amplifier. The frontRow Reserve powerChord sits above the frontRow and Au24 SX powerChords in Audience's lineup, and completes a Reserve system alongside Reserve interconnects and speaker cable.

Press Recognition

• Positive Feedback, 2024 Writers’ Choice Award (Issue 136, December 2024), Myles B. Astor. Astor, who has heard every Audience cable in his system, called the frontRow Reserve clearly a step above the rest, with a much lower noise floor, better dynamics, and dazzling speed. Read the awards at Positive Feedback

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Specifications

• Type: Power cord
• Conductors: 6 x 38-strand 99.9999% pure OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) copper, with added silver in the Reserve
• Dielectric: Virgin cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE)
• Geometry: Audience frontRow
• Current capacity: 34.7A
• Noise control: Natural crystal EMI/RFI suppression formulation; EMI/RFI sleeving; OFC shielding with hot shunt to ground; extended Reserve grounding and shielding scheme
• Connectors: Audience rhodium-plated copper US wall plug; 15A or 20A IEC
• Treatment: MORRE Deep Cryo II and EHVP
• Burn-in: 3 to 4 days
• Lengths: 1m to 2m in 0.25m steps
• Warranty: Contact us for Audience warranty details
• Country of origin: USA (handmade in San Marcos, California)