Audioquest Wild digital cables

Audioquest Wild digital cables

AudioQuest Digital Coax cables are designed to minimise 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 analogue 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.

Audioquest Wild digital cables features

• Solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS) Conductors
  Solid conductors prevent electrical and magnetic strand-interaction. PSS Solid-Silver minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation.
• Carbon-Based 7-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS), 2 x EMI Absorption
  100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.
• Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
  Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE used in our more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable’s conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable’s full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimising distortion.
• Copper Foil + 100% PSS-Silver Spiral Shield
• Cold-Welded, Hanging-Silver Directly Over Machined Pure Red Copper Terminations

AES/EBU, developed jointly by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcast Union, established a two-channel digital standard for interconnecting digital devices in the professional world.

But, AES/EBU also has its application in the domestic environment as well.

While AES/EBU can be single-ended, balanced, or optical, here we refer to the balanced-digital interconnect.

• Foil + Silver-Plated Braid Shield