Welcome to Vertex AQ

For those not familiar with Vertex AQ, we had better introduce ourselves. Vertex AQ is a small company based in the heart of Wales, in Great Britain. We specialise in the production of the highest quality hi-fi infrastructure components with a wide range of audio cables, digital cables, mains leads, mains conditioners and hi-fi supports. The technology incorporated into these items is extensive. However, the real key to the success of our products is the unified way they have been designed, and their real objectives. You see, we don't design these items as stand-alone hi-fi accessories, trying to make one set of interconnects sound better than the next in an arbitrary way say. No, the design approach starts at the electronics at either end of the cable, and the system as a whole - and also takes account of how other Vertex components will interact with the system too.

And their objectives? Primarily, to significantly reduce the Radio Frequency Interference, or RFI, and microphony problems which are endemic in any hi-fi system. By removing such debilitating effects you remove very significant constraints; and the sound quality improvements are incredible. Most system's performance is severely limited by RFI and microphony, and all the time you disregard these issues you just cannot get past major performance limitations, regardless of the electronics and speakers you use. In fact, often the more complex and powerful a system is, the more crippling these limitations become.

But wait, it doesn't stop there. The most important thing of all with Vertex is the very extensive and detailed strategy we have developed which deals with how a system interacts with itself and its environment, what RFI and microphony are doing, and how to use all the Vertex products to correctly deal with these issues. We call this the 'Systematic Approach'. But by its nature this is a pretty in-depth topic, and one we are not going to skim over on a website. So we've written a big book about it.

So, whatever you are thinking of upgrading with your system, please do it in an integrated and structured way! Don't think of hi-fi cables as a separate entity, an afterthought, or that decent hi-fi racks are just optional. Or, if you are thinking something like 'I'm going to try a whole bunch of speaker leads', we believe you are not going to get great results.

Instead, may we suggest you do 3 things. Firstly, contact a Vertex AQ dealer and have a good discussion about your system and Vertex. Secondly, ask him to send you the Vertex Systematic Approach book. When you get the book please read it, study it even; we believe you will find it very interesting and enlightening. Then thirdly, get to have an extensive listening test of some Vertex products. We think you'll be very glad you did.