A quality subwoofer cable will help extract and deliver all of the bass information in your music or movie soundtrack and help your subwoofer perform to its potential. Audioquest have a large range of subwoofer cables starting with the entry level Black Lab cable through to their premium Wolf cable. All cables from the Greyhound upwards feature a level of silver content and the Husky and Wolf cables are also available with XLR terminations.
Solid 0.5% Silver Conductors: Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality subwoofer cables. This is the main difference between the lower priced Black Lab range and the Irish Red.
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 (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Black Lab 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. Thanks to all the air in Foamed-PE, it causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.
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.
Symmetrical Coax Geometry: Identical + and – conductors prevent the shield being used as an inferior audio conductor.
Cold-Weld Gold-Plated Plugs: 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.
Grounding: Sometimes there is a hum problem unless the subwoofer and AV receiver (or surround-sound processor) are attached to each other using a separate wire. If you hear noticeable hum in your system after connecting your subwoofer, please attach the subwoofer cable's ground lead to your audio gear. Some audio equipment has a ground (GND) connection on the back-panel, if not, attach the ground spade lugs to any screw on the equipment chassis of both the source and the subwoofer. Usually, this extra wire will not be needed.
Main Features & Specifications
- AudioQuest Irish Red, 1 RCA to 1 RCA Subwoofer Cable
- Geometry: Symmetrical Coax Geometry
- Metal: Solid Silver-Plated Long-Grain Copper (LGC) Conductors
- Dielectric: Foamed-Polyethylene (FPE) Insulation
- Noise-Dissipation System (NDS): Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation System
- RCA Plugs: Cold-Welded, Gold-Plated
- Jacket Colour: Black/Red nylon braid