Audience frontRow Phono Cable

A phono cartridge produces a tiny signal, often a fraction of a millivolt, and the tonearm cable carries it before any amplification. The frontRow phono cable gives that delicate signal Audience's frontRow technologies, so more of the groove reaches your phono stage.

Every detail in the groove, carried intact to your phono stage.

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

Choose RCA to RCA for tonearms with RCA outputs, or DIN to RCA for arms with a DIN socket. It sits just below the frontRow Reserve phono cable in Audience's lineup.

Press Recognition

• 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
• 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

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Specifications

• Type: Stereo tonearm (phono) cable
• Conductors: 99.9999% frontRow OCC copper, with Audience PMT
• Dielectric: Virgin cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE)
• Connectors: Audience rhodium-plated carbon fiber solderless RCA
• Terminations: RCA to RCA, or DIN to RCA
• 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)