AudioQuest Red River Analog Interconnect (Pair)

 

North America has two Red Rivers, North, and South. Red River South has been home to many peoples; it once was the border between the US and colonial Spain, and today forms part of the border between the rival states of Texas and Oklahoma. Red River North forms in a confluence of North Dakota and Minnesota rivers, but its history is Canada’s. The Red River North’s early settlers were the Métis, whose ancestry was French and aboriginal Canadian. The Métis, in 1869, began an uprising known as the Red River Rebellion, which challenged the Canadian government, eventually leading to the formation of the province of Manitoba.

SOLID LONG-GRAIN COPPER (LGC) CONDUCTORS:

Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion. Red River’s solid Long-Grain Copper 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, fewer impurities, fewer grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.

NITROGEN-INJECTED HARD-CELL FOAM INSULATION:

Nitrogen-Injected Hard-Cell Foam insulation is used exclusively in most AudioQuest video and digital audio cables. Similar to Foamed-PE, it is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. ‘Hard’ foam is used because the material's stiffness 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 cable's characteristic impedance is consistent.

METAL-LAYER NOISE-DISSIPATION SYSTEM (NDS):

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.

TRIPLE-BALANCED GEOMETRY:

The three conductors in “Triple-Balanced” Mackenzie cables ensure that whether prepared with RCA or XLR plugs, the positive and negative signals have equally low-distortion conducting paths. The 100% coverage shield is never used as an inferior conductor.

COLD-WELDED GOLD-PLATED PLUGS:

This plug design allows for a connection devoid of solder, a common distortion source. Because the ground shells are stamped instead of machined, the metal can be chosen for low distortion instead of machinability.

 

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