Description AudioQuest Rocket 88 Speaker Cable The AudioQuest Rocket 88 Speaker Cable utilizes solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC ) offering a smoother, more relaxed, and natural sonic timbre and texture. Features Solid conductors prevent strand-interaction, a major source of dynamic distortion in cables. AudioQuest’s best copper. To the greatest extent presently possible, extreme-purity Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC ) conductors minimize distortion caused by grain boundaries. Alternating layers of metal and carbon-loaded synthetics “shield the shield,” minimizing RF noise before it reaches the layer attached to ground. Double Star-Quad Geometry reduces time-smearing while preserving dynamics, and clarity. Foamed-Polyethylene’s high air content minimizes energy absorption for clearer sound. All conductors controlled for RF-noise directionality. 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. Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation This cable’s negative conductors are covered with partially conductive Carbon-Loaded Polyethylene. This remarkable material reduces radio-frequency garbage being fed back into the amplifier. The sonic benefit is exactly the same reduction in “hash” and improved dimensionality that comes whenever RF interference is reduced in an audio circuit. In addition, a carbon layer damps interaction between positive and negative conductors, and an external Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation System reduces external interference. 72v Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) All insulation between two or more conductors is also a dielectric whose properties will affect the integrity of the signal. When the dielectric is unbiased, dielectric-involvement (absorption and non-linear release of energy) causes different amounts of time delay (phase shift) for different frequencies and energy levels, which is a real problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio. The inclusion of an RF Trap (developed for AudioQuest’s Niagara Series of power products), ensures that radio-frequency noise will not be induced into the signal conductors from the DBS field elements. (DBS, US Pat #s 7,126,055 & 7,872,195 B1) Double Star-Quad Geometry The relationship between conductors defines a cable’s most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance). However, even when those variables are kept in reasonably neutral balance, the particular geometric relationship between conductors greatly affects the sound. Star-Quad geometry is not only vastly superior to conductors run in parallel, but also to the same conductors as two twisted pairs. Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. This cable, however, uses air-filled Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation on both conductors. Because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile, Foamed-PE, with its high air content, causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials. Specifications Metal ZERO: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC ) / BASS: Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC ) Noise Dissipation Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation Geometry Double Star-Quad Gauge 13 AWG Cable Length 164 ft = 50 m Jacket Green on Black Braid
