AudioQuest EARTH RCA Analog 1m-pair noise-dissipating Cables
PREOWNED - FULLY TESTED - SOLD AS A 1 METER
PAIR - INCLUDES ORIGINAL BOX, ZIP CASE - RCA TO RCA
Transparent, detailed, open, vibrant: AudioQuest
Earth interconnects deliver music's dimensions, textures, timbres, and dynamics
with aplomb. Part of the company's Elements Series, Earth brings elevated
degrees of presence, immediacy, and depth to the component to which it's
connected – and thereby everything you hear. Equipped with AudioQuest's Dielectric
Bias System with radio-frequency trap, a carbon-based six-layer
noise-dissipation system, FEP air tubes, and Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+)
conductors as well as other leading-edge advances designed to ensure
rapturous purity, Earth is as beautiful as nature itself.
Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) Conductors
Solid conductors prevent both electrical and magnetic
interaction strand-to-strand interaction, major sources of distortion. Surface
quality is critical because a conductor can be considered as a rail-guide for
both the fields within a conductor, and for the magnetic fields that extend
outside the conductor. The astonishingly smooth and pure surface of all
AudioQuests's Perfect-Surface metals nearly eliminates harshness and greatly
increases clarity compared to lesser materials. Extremely high-purity
Perfect-Surface Copper+ further minimizes distortion caused by grain boundaries,
which exist within any metal conductor, nearly eliminating harshness and
greatly increasing clarity compared to OFHC, OCC, 8N and other coppers.
FEP Air-Tube Insulation (FEP Is a Fluoro-Polymer)
Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part
of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb
energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as
distortion. Air, however, absorbs next to no energy, and FEP is the best
extrudable solid insulation, absorbing less energy than other materials. The
use of FEP Air-Tube insulation, with almost nothing but air around the solid
conductors, improves the sound of an audio system's focus and dynamics.
Triple-Balanced Geometry (Separate Ground-Reference
Conductor)
Our Triple-Balanced Geometry uses a separate
ground-reference conductor, so the cable's shield is never used as an inferior
conductor. Whether prepared with RCA or XLR plugs, the cable's three conductors
ensure that the positive and negative signals have equally superior,
low-distortion conducting paths.
Carbon-Based Six-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS)
It's easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing
captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment's
ground reference requires AQ's Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional
shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component
ground, modulating and distorting the critical "reference" ground
plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal. NDS's alternating
layers of metal and carbon-loaded synthetics "shield the shield,"
absorbing and reflecting most of this noise/RF energy before it reaches the
layer attached to ground.
Dielectric-Bias System with Radio Frequency Trap
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)