AUDIOQUEST WATER RCA Analog-Audio Interconnect Cable

Analog Audio Interconnect Cable

AUDIOQUEST WATER is an analog audio interconnect cable from the Rivers & Elements series featuring triple-balanced geometry with a separate ground-reference conductor, so the cable shielding is never used as a return conductor. Whether equipped with RCA or XLR connectors, the cable's three conductors ensure that positive and negative signals have equally superior and low-distortion conduction paths.
To prevent radiofrequency interference (RFI) captured by the shield from modulating the equipment's ground reference, AQ noise dissipation is necessary. Traditional shielding systems typically absorb and then drain RF noise/energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical "reference" ground plane, which in turn causes signal distortion. The 6-layer carbon-based Noise Dissipation System (NDS) "shields the shield," absorbing and reflecting most of this RF noise/energy before it reaches the ground-attached layer.
AUDIOQUEST WATER uses polyethylene air-tube insulation on both conductors for enhanced geometry stabilization and improved clarity. Since air absorbs almost no energy and polyethylene is low-loss with a benign distortion profile, the polyethylene air-tube insulation, with its high air content, causes far less of the "blurring" effect common to other materials.
AUDIOQUEST WATER features cold-soldered silver terminations applied directly to pure red copper terminations.
AUDIOQUEST WATER is manufactured using Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) which prevents the interaction of electrical and magnetic wires. PSC+ minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF noise dissipation.
AUDIOQUEST WATER is equipped with dielectric-bias system with radiofrequency trap whose properties affect signal integrity. The inclusion of an RF trap (developed for the AudioQuest Niagara power supply product line), ensures that radiofrequency noise is not induced into signal conductors by DBS field elements. (DBS, U.S. Patent No. 7,126,055 and 7,872,195 B1)

Specifications

• Conductors: Solid PSC+
• Geometry: Triple-Balanced (Separate ground-reference conductor)
• Dielectric: Polyethylene Air-Tubes
• Noise-Dissipation: Carbon-Based Multi-Layer
• Shielding: Blue and black braided
• Connectors: Cold-soldered silver applied directly to pure red copper terminations