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AudioQuest Firebird Interconnect

Meaning “Big River” in Athabaskan, the Yukon River starts with the Llewellyn Glacier as its source in British Columbia, and empties into Alaska’s Bering Sea. It may have been the first immigration route for North America’s first indigenous humans, and was certainly the principle means of travel during the 1896-1903 Klondike Gold Rush.
  • Solid perfect-surface copper+ (psc+) conductors
  • Polyethylene air-tube insulation
  • Carbon-based 3-layer noise-dissipation system (nds)
  • Tripple-balanced geometry
  • Cold-welded hanging-silver directly over pure purple copper plugs

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ThunderBird Interconnect

Materials & Design

 


Signal-Conducting Metal: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)

 

RF-Draining Metal: Solid Silver-Plated Copper


 

Geometry: ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance)


 

Dielectric: FEP Air-Tubes for minimal signal interference


 

Dielectric-Bias System:  72v DBS (RCA);  Dual-72v DBS (XLR)


 

Level 6 Noise-Dissipation: ZERO-Tech + 72v DBS + Carbon/Graphene Mesh-Network + Direction-Controlled


 

Plug Barrels: Copper-Plated RF-Draining


 

Plug Contacts: Hanging-Silver over Red-Copper

Overview

If not for its Mythical siblings — FireBird and Dragon — ThunderBird might be the best cable the world has ever heard.

Among other tried-and-true AudioQuest materials and design techniques, ThunderBird features solid directionally controlled conductors of our finest copper — Perfect Surface Copper+ (PSC+) — Copper-Plated RF-Draining Barrels, and our Level-6 Noise-Dissipation System.

All Mythical Creature interconnects are available with custom-made RCA and XLR terminations.

Features

ZERO-Tech (No Characteristic Impedance) for Linear, Wide-Bandwidth Noise-Dissipation

The only way to avoid characteristic-impedance mismatch effects between a cable and its attached source and load circuits is to prevent the cable from having a characteristic impedance. ZERO-Tech succeeds by eliminating the electrostatic field between the cable’s high and low signal conductors, enabling linear (consistent octave to octave) Radio-Frequency (RF) Noise-Dissipation, and uncompressed transients. To preserve ZERO-Tech’s complete isolation between signal conductors, a Dual-72v DBS pack is included for XLR cables.

Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors

Solid conductors prevent electrical and magnetic strand interaction. PSC+ Solid-Copper minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries and maximizes linear RF Noise-Dissipation.

FEP Air-Tube Dielectric

Positive conductors benefit from almost no contact between metal and its FEP insulation, which is notable for its superior dielectric constant and minimal signal interference. Negative conductors benefit from intentionally “lossy insulation” — no air and no FEP help maximize the negative connection’s different job.

72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS)

Insulation is also a dielectric that can act like a shunt filter. Biasing minimizes dielectric noise and linearizes the filter, significantly improving wide-bandwidth dissipation of induced RF noise.

Level 6 Noise-Dissipation: ZERO-Tech + 72v DBS + Carbon/Graphene Mesh-Network + Direction-Controlled

Radio-Frequency Noise from cellular, WiFi, and satellites is everywhere. AQ’s Level 6 Linear Noise-Dissipation includes a carbon & graphene resistive mesh network, direction-controlled conductors, 72v DBS, and Silver-Plated drain wires, significantly minimizing RF Noise masking effects.

Hanging-Silver over Red-Copper Plugs

Available Configurations:


XLR
RCA
Cable Length 0.5 M, 0.5 M, 0.75 M, 0.75 M, 1.0 M, 1.0 M, 1.5 M, 1.5 M, 2.0 M, 2.0 M, 2.5 M, 2.5 M, 3.0 M, 3.0 M, 4.0 M, 4.0 M, 5.0 M, 5.0 M, 6.0 M, 6.0 M
Termination RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR, RCA, XLR

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