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,

100% PERFECT SURFACE SILVER (PSS) SOLID CONDUCTORS: Perfect surface technology applied to extreme purity silver provides unprecedented clarity and dynamic contrast. Solid conductors prevent wire interaction, a major source of cable distortion. Perfect-Surface Extreme Purity Silver minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries that exist within any metallic conductor, nearly eliminating hardness and greatly increasing clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N, and other coppers.

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.

72V DIELECTRIC BIAS SYSTEM (DBS, US Pat #s 7,126,055 & 7,872,195 B1): All insulation slows down the signal in the inner conductor. When isolation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently - a big problem for highly time-sensitive multi-octave audio. AudioQuest DBS creates a strong and stable electrostatic field that saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules in the insulation. This minimizes both the energy storage in the insulation and the multiple non-linear time delays that occur. Sound appears from a strikingly black background with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast. ECP battery packs will last for years. A test button and LED allow for occasional battery testing.

CARBON-BASED 6 CAPACITY NOISE DISPERSION SYSTEM (NDS): 100% shield coverage is easy. To prevent captured RF interference from modulating the equipment ground reference, AQ's Noise Dissipation System is required. Carbon-laden metals and synthetics prevent most RFIs from reaching the equipment ground plane.

FINISHES: Cold welded, hung in silver directly on pure red copper.