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Key Features
Older AV and stereo equipment can be connected easily via the AudioQuest Forest Digital Coax interconnect, which includes a generous coating of solid silver (even at this price!) over the long-grain copper conductors, a good fillip for digital audio sound reproduction. An outstanding entry level digital cable.
Product Ref: 200855
The AudioQuest Forest digital audio cable is designed to get the most out of your digital audio equipment (CD players, DAC's, computers etc.) for the least amount of outlay. Forest takes the typical AudioQuest method of cable construction using very high quality copper and generously coating the conductors in pure solid silver. The performance results are similar to a solid silver cable, but of course with a much lower overall material cost.
This great value-for-money cable is finished with gold-plated RCA plug terminations which are 'cold welded' - a technique that avoids solder-type connections which can disrupt a signal's path and introduce a new metal to the equation. Shielding is also important on digital cables so AQ provide maximum shield coverage with special attention paid to the metal quality to ensure the the conductor is well shielded from interference but also the return path.
Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like digital 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 digital audio cables.
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.
Conductor | Solid 0.5% Silver Plated |
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Dielectric | hard-Cell Foam |
Jacket | PVC |
Plug Type | RCA type plug (x2) |
Shielding | Standard |
Type | Digital Coaxial |