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Key Features
The AudioQuest Red River RCA Phono Cable showcases their prized Solid Perfect-Surface Copper conductors, ensuring an incredibly smooth and uncontaminated surface throughout the conductor's fabrication process. At each stage, the copper is meticulously protected, thanks to a proprietary internal machining technique, which maintains its softness, purity, and smoothness to the highest degree. The outcome is a conductor with remarkably low distortion, epitomizing the distinctive sonic signature that defines AudioQuest's Red River range of interconnects. Additionally, Red River separates the positive and negative currents into two individual runs of cables, each with separate exterior jackets. This configuration significantly reduces cross talk and contamination between polarities, enhancing isolation.
Product Ref: 205694
AudioQuest Red River cables are part of the 'Rivers' series of analogue interconnects, they build on the specifications of Chicago. Red River cables feature 'Perfect Surface Copper' conductors, which are fundamental toward achieving Red River’s very clean sound. While the 'Hard Cell Foam Insulation' allows the conductors in the cable to maintain the same relationship with each other along the full length of the cable, ensuring that the characteristic impedance of the cable is consistent.
Perfect-Surface Copper has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. Proprietary metal-processing technology protects the wire’s surface at every stage of drawing and fabrication. When high-purity low-oxide copper is kept as soft, pure and smooth as possible, it becomes a wonderfully low-distortion conductor. For over 30 years AudioQuest has pioneered the use of superior metals, yet even they were surprised by this huge leap in performance. PSC clearly outperforms previous AQ metals that cost over ten times as much. Electrical and magnetic interaction between strands in a conventional cable is the greatest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat dirty, harsh sound. Solid conductors are fundamental toward achieving Red River’s very clean sound.
Nitrogen-Injected 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.
100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Noise-Dissipation System prevents a significant amount of RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.
The three conductors in “Triple-Balanced” Red River cables ensure that the positive and negative signals have equally low-distortion conducting paths. The 100% coverage shield is never used as an inferior conductor.
This plug design allows for a connection devoid of solder, which is a common source of distortion. Because the ground shells are stamped instead of machined, the metal can be chosen for low distortion instead of machinability.
Metal | Solid Perfect-Surface Copper |
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Geometry | Triple Balanced |
Dielectric | Hard Cell Foam |
Jacket | Black/Red Braid |
Terminations | Cold-Welded, Gold Plated |