AudioQuest X2 Speaker Cable, Grey

Full Description

• Analogue Audio

  

• Oxygen Free Copper

  

• Custom Lengths

  

The AudioQuest X2 speaker cable is a nicely balanced cable which is at home in both a two-channel stereo situation or driving a home cinema system. AQ's semi-solid concentric arrangement ensures the clustered copper conductors are in the exact same position throughout the whole length of the cable.

The X2 offers superb sound, with true Hi-Fi performance suitable for any music or AV system. Compared to conventional 14-gauge wire, AudioQuest's X2 speaker cable reduces resistance over longer runs, so your high-quality components and speakers will get the cleanest, most accurate signal possible. The lower the gauge, the thicker the wire, and the better its capacity to pass amplified audio signal.

X2 speaker cable offers two colour choices: off-white or dark grey.

Semi-Solid Concentric Packed Conductors

SSCP Conductors are used in some of AudioQuest's AC power and speaker cables as a cost-effective, flexible alternative to typical stranded conductors. Semi-Solid Concentric Packed Conductors use fewer, larger strands that do not change position down the length of the cable. While solid conductors are the complete solution to strand distortion, Semi-Solid Concentric Packed Conductors avoid many of the distortion mechanisms of stranded conductors.

Long Grain Copper

LGC allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. OFHC is a general metal industry specification regarding "loss" without any concern for distortion. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance. X2 cables use LGC strands in a Semi-Solid Concentric Packed Conductor arrangement.

SST (Spread Spectrum Technology)

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 conductor of a 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.

Terminations

A quality cable demands a quality termination. Stripped Bare wire and even DIY plugs leave the copper conductors exposed to signal-degrading oxygen which will require the cable to be re-terminated over time.

AudioQuest X2 Speaker Cable can be specially terminated with AudioQuest's SureGrip BFA Plugs in our workshop here at Audiovisual Online which seals in the copper leaving a nice, neat connection. Alternatively we can apply QED's Airloc terminations or Fisual Surefix bananas or spades which are hand-crimped and then nicely finished with heatshrink. Please select from the options above.

Cable Specifications