AudioQuest Niagara 1200 and 3000 Power Conditioners | Review

At a recent high-end audio show I sat with a group of colleagues in the hotel lobby and discussed, as we often do, what we had seen that was worthwhile. One person asked an interesting question: “What single component are you seeing in more rooms than any other?” I made a joke about Mat Weisfeld pulling up in a truck full of VPI turntables and dropping one off in every room, but then I realized that the answer was this: the AudioQuest Niagara power conditioners, specifically the flagship Niagara 7000. In a very fickle industry, that says a lot about the AudioQuest power conditioning designs—even if Bill Low and Garth Powell are just pulling up in the space next to the VPI truck and installing Niagaras in each room the Wednesday before the show. It means that there’s a consensus in the high-end audio industry, a rare thing. Or it could mean that AudioQuest is simply a generous company when it comes to loaning out product. I can attest to the latter possibility—AudioQuest is always willing to lend me anything I need to do my job, no questions asked. Stephen Mejias, well-known to most audiophiles as a former reviewer and […]