AudioQuest digital coaxial cables are designed to minimize distortion over an extremely wide bandwidth. For many applications, the speed of digital communication is important. Most visibly, "speed" refers to transferring large files as fast as possible, or carrying enough data for high definition video. For digital coaxial, audio "speed" is critical not because of how fast, but because time relationships within a digital stream are critical to reconstructing the analog waveform that brings information, music, and joy to our ears. . The time-based damage (fluctuation) of this information within the data packet makes the sound small and flat rather than three-dimensional,
SOLID 5% SILVER CONDUCTORS: Solid conductors eliminate distortion from string interaction and reduce fluctuations. Solid silver conductors are excellent for very high frequency applications. These signals, being of such high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very similar to that of a solid silver wire, but its price is much closer to that of a solid copper wire. This is an incredibly cost effective way to make very high quality digital coaxial cables.
HARD CELL FOAM INSULATION: Hard cell foam insulation is used exclusively on most AudioQuest digital audio and video cables. Similar to PE foamed, it is nitrogen injected to create pockets of air. The "hard" foam is used because the stiffness of the material allows the cable conductors to maintain the same relationship to each other throughout the entire length of the cable, thus ensuring that the characteristic impedance of the cable is consistent.
100% SHIELD COVERAGE (SHIELD + SILVER BRAID): Shielding always plays an important role in any cable design, but shielding in coaxial interconnection plays an especially important role because it functions not only as a shield but also as a path. return. For this reason, AudioQuest pays special attention to the quality of the shielding metal and the manufacturing techniques, both of which affect the sound and the picture.
5 CAPACITY CARBON-BASED NOISE DISPERSION SYSTEM (NDS): 100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF interference from modulating the equipment ground reference requires the AQ Noise Dissipation System. Carbon-laden metals and synthetics prevent most RFIs from reaching the equipment ground plane.
TERMINATIONS: Cold welded, silver hung directly on pure copper.
