Connect audio source components to amplifiers and receivers with this AudioQuest Red River XLR Pair analogue audio cable, meticulously designed for exceptional performance and outstanding value. Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) conductors minimize distortion, Foamed-Polyethylene insulation preserves dynamic contrasts, and a Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation efficiently dissipates high-frequency noise. The result is cleaner, clearer, more naturally beautiful music.
Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) Conductors
Solid conductors prevent electrical and magnetic strand-interaction. PSC Solid-Copper minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation in the Red River XLR Pair.
Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation
It’s easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical “reference” ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal.
Direction-Controlled Conductors
All drawn metal strands or conductors have 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 correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest Red River XLR cable. When applicable, arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality.
For most models of AQ cable, the arrows not only indicate the direction that optimizes metal-directionality as part of Noise-Dissipation, but also indicates non-symmetrical attachment of shield and GND in order to optimize full-system performance. A fundamental aspect of AudioQuest’s multifaceted Noise-Dissipation technology, Direction-Controlled Conductors ensure that induced noise dissipates and drains properly.
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation in the Red River XLR cable ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Both wire insulation and circuit board materials absorb energy. They store some of this energy and then release it as distortion.
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE Audioquest use in the more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and nitrogen-inject to create air pockets.
Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and, therefore, does not release any energy from or into the conductor, the cable can reduce distortion. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the Red River XLR cable’s conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable’s full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.
Triple-Balanced Geometry
Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable’s shield is never used as an inferior conductor. Whether prepared with RCA or XLR plugs, the Red River XLR Pair cable’s three conductors ensure that the positive and negative signals have equally superior, low-distortion conducting paths.
Technical Specifications
- Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC)
- Noise Dissipation: Metal-Layer
- Geometry: Triple-Balanced
- Insulation: Foamed-Polyethylene
- Terminations: Gold-Plated
- Signal Type: Analogue
- Jacket: Red on Black Braid
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