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Product: AudioQuest Type-5 Speaker Wire with Silver Banana Plugs (10ft) - Pair
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: Types 5 Low-Distortion Low-Noise speaker cable is essentially Type 4 with better metal and with conductors that are a little farther apart reducing interaction between adjacent conductors by 35%. Solid Perfect-Surface Copper +/Long-Grain Copper Sonic-Signature Conductors A finessed combination of grainless-sounding Perfect-Surface Copper+ Sonic-Signature conductors plus Long-Grain Copper enables a smooth and natural "lack-of-character."Solid Conductors Eliminate harshness and confusion due to strand interaction.Noise-Dissipation Carbon-Loading and Direction-Controlled conductors provide effective Noise-Dissipation minimizing noise modulation and amplifier distortion.Star-Quad Geometry Balanced Star-Quad Geometry reduces time-smearing while preserving dynamics and clarity. What's in the Box 1 pair of Type 5 speaker cables
Grain-free clarity
Accurate Signal Transmission
Perfect Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
Direction-Controlled Conductors to provide extremely effective noise dissipation and minimize amplifier distortion
Type 5 comes with proprietary SureGrip 300 connectors, which feature direct-silver plating over a high-quality beryllium copper base.
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Product: AudioQuest Type-5 Speaker Wire with Silver Banana Plugs (8ft) - Pair
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: Types 5 Low-Distortion Low-Noise speaker cable is essentially Type 4 with better metal and with conductors that are a little farther apart reducing interaction between adjacent conductors by 35%. Solid Perfect-Surface Copper +/Long-Grain Copper Sonic-Signature Conductors A finessed combination of grainless-sounding Perfect-Surface Copper+ Sonic-Signature conductors plus Long-Grain Copper enables a smooth and natural "lack-of-character."Solid Conductors Eliminate harshness and confusion due to strand interaction.Noise-Dissipation Carbon-Loading and Direction-Controlled conductors provide effective Noise-Dissipation minimizing noise modulation and amplifier distortion.Star-Quad Geometry Balanced Star-Quad Geometry reduces time-smearing while preserving dynamics and clarity. What's in the Box 1 pair of Type 5 speaker cables
A finessed combination of grainless-sounding Perfect-Surface Copper+ Sonic-Signature conductors
Eliminate harshness and confusion due to strand interaction
Carbon-Loading and Direction-Controlled conductors provide effective Noise-Dissipation
Balanced Star-Quad Geometry reduces time-smearing while preserving dynamics
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Product: AudioQuest Type-5 Speaker Wire with Silver Banana Plugs (6ft) - Pair
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: AudioQuest’s new Type 5, a direct descendant of the company’s longtime high-value workhorse, Type 4, uses the same fundamental Star-Quad geometry as its predecessor but incorporates several important performance upgrades: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ Sonic-Signature conductors have been added to ensure a smoother, more natural sound. The outer diameter of the cable has increased, allowing more space between the individual conductors, decreasing distortion-causing interaction between adjacent conductors by 35%. While Type 5 is a superb full-range cable, it can also be doubled up to work as a very effective Double-BiWire combination cable. Type 5 is available in a black and brown braid, terminated with AudioQuest’s high-quality SureGrip 300 connectors, or on spools—either braided or with a CL3/FT4 red-striped black PVC jacket.
Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ Sonic-Signature conductors ensure smooth and natural sound
Carbon-Loading and Direction-Controlled Conductors provide effective Noise-Dissipation and minimize amplifier distortion
Star-Quad Geometry preserves timing, clarity, and dynamics
6 Foot Pair Speaker cable
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Product: AudioQuest NRG-Z3 Low-Distortion 3-Pole AC Power Cable - 3.28' (1m)
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Black
Description: NRG-Y2 NRG-Y3 NRG-Z2 and NRG-Z3 AC cables take advantage of the same get-out-of-the-way and Noise-Dissipation technologies as the NRG Storm Series of AC cables. All these models feature Zero Characteristic Impedance for Uncompressed Current Transfer: A non-technical analogy for this might be that if you drop a coin in a tube with shampoo in it no matter how wide (low resistance) that tube the shampoo (the Characteristic Impedance) is going to get in the way (compromise current transients). Eliminating Characteristic Impedance (Zero means No in this application) is like having only air in the tube as close to a vacuum as possible. Whether the amp is running at less than a watt or is fully maxed out the unrestricted transients are visceral something the whole body understands no words required. NRG-Z2 and NRG-Z3 cables take a step further and use Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC in Z3 PSC+ in Z2) also in a 7-strand Semi-Solid Concentric conductor arrangement. The astonishingly smooth and pure Perfect-Surface processed conductors minimize distortion caused by grain boundaries and surface discontinuities which exist in any metal conductor. All the new models also feature Direction-Controlled Conductors Silver-Plated Shield Drains: All drawn metal has a non-symmetrical and therefore directional grain structure. AudioQuest controls the resulting RF impedance variation so that noise drains away from where it will cause distortion. The Silver-Plated shield drains efficiently remove RF noise from the line and neutral shields via the wall plugs ground pin which is why even the 2-Pole 2 models have an unexpected ground pin. NRG-Z3 also includes AQs Ground-Noise Dissipation Technology (US Patent # 8988168): As with the Storm Series AC cables Z3 includes AudioQuests Ground Noise-Dissipation Technology. AC Ground wires o_er protection from current-wiring faults but they also act as antennas picking up radio frequency (RF) noise which bypasses component power su
Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) with Silver-Plated Drain Wires
Quiet Background and Minimal Active-Circuit Misbehavior Due to Ground Noise-Dissipation
ZERO (No) Characteristic Impedance (Uncompressed Current Transfer)
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Product: AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 Plug-in USB DAC + Preamp + Headphone Amp
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Black
32-bit ESS 9010 Sabre DAC
Offering tremendously enhanced sound, higher value, and significantly lower power consumption than the original award-winning DragonFly
Works with Apple and Android phones and tablets when paired with a simple adapter
This versatile DAC improves everything detail, transparency, immediacy, richness, tone associated with your music
Plays everything from MP3s to 24-bit/96kHz high-resolution files
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Product: AudioQuest Type 4 Star Quad Gold BFA Speaker Cables - 6 ft. (1.82m) - 2-Pack
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: Audioquest's Type 4 Speaker Cable utilizes complex materials and design to offer the cleanest, distortion-free transmission of sound. The Type 4 utilizes solid Long-Grain Copper wire, Star-Quad low inductance geometry, Spread-Spectrum technology (for less distortion / interference), and other technologies to transmit the purest audio signal to your speakers.
Audioquest Type 4 Prepared Speaker Cables BFA Silver 6ft - Pair
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Product: AudioQuest SureGrip100 BFA/Banana Connectors - 8-Pack (Silver)
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Silver
Description: SureGrip100 BFA/Banana Connectors Beryllium-copper is stronger more conductive and better sounding than normal phosphor-bronze connectors Direct-silver plating looks dull because there is no distortion-causing shiny nickel layer underneath. It is optimized for sound. Cold-weld system for an ideal connection better sounding than solder What's in the Box: SureGrip100 BFA/Banana Connectors - 8-Pack Specifications Fits up to 9 AWG speaker cables
Beryllium-copper is stronger more conductive and better sounding than normal phosphor-bronze connectors
Direct-silver plating looks dull because there is no distortion-causing shiny nickel layer underneath
Cold-weld system for an ideal connection better sounding than solder
Fits up to 9 AWG speaker cables
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Product: Audioquest Type 4 Pair 5' Speaker Cables with Bananas
Brand: AudioQuest
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Product: AudioQuest RJ/E Cinnamon Ethernet (1.5m)
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: silver
Description: AudioQuest 1.5M Cinnamon Ethernet Cable. This Cat 7 cable offers the virtues of high-speed, low time delay, significant distance capability, and bit-perfect communication 5 Year Warranty
Solid 1.25% Silver Conductors
Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation
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Product: AudioQuest 5' Single Rocket 33 SBW –With Silver Bananas
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: This is a single cable, not a pair. This double star quad geometry ‚Flat Rock‚ cable does not look normal on the outside, and it is not at all normal on the inside. A sophisticated combination of extraordinary materials and extremely refined design lets the Rockets equally honor all types of music. Solid Conductors: Eliminate harshness and confusion due to strand interaction. Long-Grain Copper/Perfect-Surface Copper: Rocket 33 uses a carefully finessed combination of Long-Grain Copper (LGC) and extremely high-purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC). LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries and definitively better performance. The astonishingly smooth and pure PSC further eliminates harshness and greatly increases clarity. Dual-Triple Geometry: The relationship between conductors defines a cables most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance). However, even when those variables are kept in a reasonable balance, the relationship between conductors can be varied in ways that greatly affect the sound. The Dual-Triple construction of Rocket 33 allows for significantly better dynamic contrast and information intelligibility than if the same conductors were run in parallel. Spread-Spectrum Technology (SST): Any single size or shape of conductor has a specific distortion profile. Even though radially symmetrical conductors (solid or tubular) have the fewest discontinuities, any particular size does have a sonic signature. SST is a method for significantly reducing the awareness of these character flaws by using a precise combination of different size conductors. The six different SST-determined conductor sizes used in Rocket 33 allow an exceptionally clear, clean and dynamic sound. Bi-Wiring: Rocket 33 is an exceptional Single-Biwire cable.
Geometry Dual-Triple
Metal LGC/PSC
Single, center channel cable
Factory terminated with #300 banana plugs
Jacket: black/red/gray braid.
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Product: AudioQuest 10 Feet Type 4 Speaker Cables with Pre-attached Banana Connectors - Pair, Black
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: AudioQuest Type 4 is one of the most successful speaker cables in in AudioQuest's 30-plus year history. Its roots go all the way back to the late 1980s. The fundamental geometry and conductor complement of Type 4 hasn't changed since 1995, because any change to the size or position of the Spread-Spectrum conductor arrangement would reduce performance.
This AudioQuest Type 4 cable uses two 17-gauge and two 20-gauge conductors. This difference in diameter reduces the possibility of distortion caused by any particular conductor's sonic "signature." Greater resolution, rhythmic swing and musicality than any cable at this price point.
A Stereophile-recommended cable - has been on Stereophile's recommended list for years.
If you've gotten the impression that I liked AudioQuest's Type 4 speaker cable, you're quite correct," writes Greg Smith in SoundStage. "I haven't heard anything less expensive than this that is as well balanced and appropriate for such a wide range of systems."
From Home Entertainment magazine: "Type 4 has a fuller and more vibrant palate of tonal colours and textures than most. The treble is detailed, and instruments and voices are well separated, yet the treble is also well controlled, lacking the forward quality and assertiveness of some."
Available in 3 Feet, 4ft, 5ft, 6ft, 7ft, 8ft, 9ft and 10 feet.
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Product: AudioQuest Carbon USB A to USB B Cable - 4.92 ft. (1.5m)
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Black
Description: In 1982 Sony gave us "Perfect sound forever" along with the attitude that "it's just digital so all CD players sound the same." That was disproved and qualitative differences between players became accepted truth. Next came separate transport and DAC combos which brought with it the attitude that "all S/PDIF digital audio cables sound the same..." until that too became disproved. Now the frontier has moved once again. Is digital audio really just ones and zeros? We don't believe so and once you've had a chance to listen to Carbon USB you won't think so either... SOLID 5% SILVER CONDUCTORS: Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications like USB audio. These signals being such a high frequency travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality USB cables. SOLID HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE INSULATION: Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry while minimizing insulation-induced phase distortion. TERMINATIONS: Precision direct-silver plated pins are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through choice of flux and metallurgy AQ solder has been optimized to make a low-distortion connection. The difference you hear between solders is a result of connection quality. AQ Solder does not have a high silver content because the more silver there is in solder the more difficult it is to make a good connection. UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE CLASS DEFINITION F
High-performance USB cable
Designed for audio excellence
Solid 5% Silver-Plated LGC Conductors
Low jitter, low distortion audio
Solid polyethylene dielectric
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Product: AudioQuest Forest USB A to USB B 0.75m Digital Audio Cable
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Green
Description: The digital sun has finally emerged with the finest quality consumer digital audio ever available in the form of 24/88.2 and 24/96 audio files, transferred over USB (Universal Serial Bus) to a new generation of superb DAC’s (Digital Audio Converters), whether built into today’s best receivers and amps, or as stand alone components. Even 44.1K files taken off a CD can provide better-than-CD quality through a USB interface to a premium DAC. To ensure that your favorite music is transferred with minimal distortion (jitter), AudioQuest offers 5 models of USB cable, featuring better metals, critical signal-pair geometry, Dielectric Bias-System, Noise-Dissipation System...all of AudioQuest’s proven techniques for delivering superior digital audio.
USB A to USB B 0.75m Digital Audio Cable
Solid LGC Conductors
Solid PE Dielectric
Low-jitter, Low-distortion
Top-notch cables deliver top-notch signal quality to your receiver's USB port. Hear all the detail of your digital music collection: every crashing cymbal, thumping bass line, and tinkling bell
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Product: AudioQuest Rocket 33 Speaker Cable Biwire (15 feet/pair)- Silver BFA Bananas
Brand: AudioQuest
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Product: AudioQuest Optilink Pearl Full Size to Full Size Digital Audio Cable (1.5 M)
Brand: AudioQuest
Description: The audio frontier is all abuzz these days with the pleasure possible though HDMI USB FireWire and Ethernet connections. However these current generation digital technologies are only part of the story just as the challenge of designing manufacturing and choosing the best analog interconnects and speaker cables is as important as ever. The S/P-DIF (Sony Philips Digital InterFace) which arrived in 1983 along with the CD is still very much a part of our world today. S/P-DIF is transmitted through Digital Coax and Toslink fiber optics (EIA-J) making them still some of the most important cables in electronic entertainment. While thanks to HDMI Toslink is not so often used to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver Toslink connectors are common on cable-boxes TV sets subwoofers all sorts of products. And now the 3.5mm Mini Optical connector also somewhat incorrectly known as Mini-Toslink is everywhere from the 3.5mm dual-purpose headphone jack on a Mac laptop to inputs on some of the finest portables. For these many reasons AudioQuest has refined and renewed our line of serious high performance OptiLink cables. All models and all lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink and Toslink to 3.5mm Mini Optical. When the question is how can a fiber-optic cable change the sound? the answer is easier to explain than for almost any other type of cable. If the light source were a coherent laser firing into a vacuum all the light would stay straight arriving at its destination at the same time. Even if the LED light source in a Toslink system were coherent the light entering a fiber-optic cable is scattered and dispersed by imperfections and impurities in the fiber. This can be measured as a loss of amplitude but amplitude is not the problem a 50% true loss would have no effect on sound quality. The problem is that the dispersed light does get through the cable but only after it has taken a longer path like a pool ball bouncing off the side-rails causing it to arri
While thanks to HDMI Toslink is not so often used to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver
AudioQuest has refined and renewed our line of serious high performance OptiLink cables
Jacket: Black/Gray Stripe In-Wall Rated PVC
Conductors: Low-Dispersion Fiber
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Product: AudioQuest - Carbon Digital (RCA, 1.5m)
Brand: AudioQuest
Color: Silver
Description: AudioQuest Digital Coax cables are designed to minimize distortion across an extremely wide bandwidth. For many applications, the speed of digital communication is important. Most visibly, "speed" is about transferring large files as quickly as possible, or carrying enough data for HD video. For Digital Coax audio "speed" is critical not because of how-much how-fast, but because time relationships within a digital stream are critical to the reconstruction of the analog waveform that brings information, music and joy to our ears. Time-based damage (jitter) to this information within the data package makes the sound small and flat instead of 3D, harsh and foggy instead of smooth and clear. Solid 5% Silver Conductors Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality digital coax cables. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation Hard-Cell Foam insulation is used exclusively in most of AudioQuest's video and digital audio cables. Similar to Foamed-PE, it is nitrogen injected to create air pockets. ‘Hard' foam is used because the stiffness of the material allows the conductors in the cable to maintain the same relationship with each other along the full length of the cable, thus ensuring that the characteristic impedance of the cable is consistent. 100% Shield Coverage (Foil + Silver-Plated Braid) Shielding always plays an important role in any cable design, but the shield on coax interconnect plays an especially important role
Solid 5% Silver Conductors
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
100% Shield Coverage (Foil + Silver-Plated Braid)
Carbon-Based 5-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS)
Cold-Welded, Hanging-Silver directly over pure Purple Copper terminations
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