AudioQuest Greyhound Subwoofer Cable
The AudioQuest Greyhound Subwoofer Cable is popular with customers who don't want a black cable snaking around the walls of their home. Greyhound is perfectly named and its jacket cover is in a very attractive white/grey so will definitely blend in with the modern look home.
AudioQuest's Greyhound dedicated subwoofer cable delivers deep bass to your powered subwoofer and features two identical conductors, and each conductor is a single, unbroken strand of AudioQuest's high-purity Long-Grain Copper. Solid conductors eliminate electrical and magnetic interference that can make multi-strand conductor cables sound brittle. They can also eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications. Even the small amount of silver (0.05%) over the copper conductors will make a difference because it is generally accepted that audio signals travel over the surface and not through the middle of the conductor.
Solid 0.5% Silver Conductors: Strand interaction is the single greatest cause of distortion in a cable. Semi-Solid Concentric Packed Conductors avoid many strand-interaction distortion mechanisms. Solid-core conductors offer a complete and compelling solution to this problem. Conductor metal quality is critical for the best cable performance. The conductor surface is the only area of the conductor with 100% current density at all frequencies. The smoothness of the conductor surface is imperative because the surface is a guide rail for the entire energy envelope. The best copper and silver conductor metals have fewer grain boundaries and low oxygen content for low distortion and high performance.
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.
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. Like in Black Lab, the Greyhound 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. Greyhound ultilises the Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS) to prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment's ground plane.
Hyperlitz Coax Geometry: Geometry is the physical relationship of the conductors to one another within a cable and determines a cable's most basic electrical values (capacitance and inductance). Different cable applications have different/specialised geometry requirements, and so these applications do not merely follow a 'one size fits all' approach. Better geometry leads to lower levels of distortion. With Greyhound, a perfect circle of eight negative conductors spiral around a single larger positive conductor, creating a cable with a large cross-sectional area, minimising skin effect, and providing low resistance.
Cold-Weld Gold-Plated Plugs: AudioQuest specifies materials and designs each of its own connectors from the ground up, resulting in the long-lasting quality and exceptional performance you deserve. These components are crucial to the overall performance of a cable. To provide the best possible performance for each application, AudioQuest designs each of its connectors from the ground up. These components are crucial to the overall performance of the cable. Painstaking care is taken to evaluate the highest quality materials and design for every application. AudioQuest pays special attention to the plating it uses over its connectors' carefully crafted base metals. Wherever possible, gold connectors are plated directly over the copper, with no destructive intermediate layer of nickel or alloy, while all silver-plated connectors are Direct-Silver plated.
AudioQuest has incorporated Cold-Weld connection technology into most of their interconnects and all prepared speaker cables..Joining conductors to plugs requires every bit as much care and precision as any other aspect of cable manufacture. AudioQuest's Cold-Weld System uses several tons of pressure to make a near-perfect connection that ensures that the structural integrity of the conductor and plug is kept completely intact, all without the damaging effect of heat. Cold-Welding avoids the introduction of heat and extra materials like solder, which change the character of the wire at the point of termination.
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.
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Main Features & Specifications
- Product Description: AudioQuest Greyhound subwoofer cable
- Terminations: Single RCA plug on each end
- Cold-Welded and Gold-Plated
- Geometry: Hyperlitz Coax Geometry
- Conductors: Two Solid Long-Grain Copper (LGC) Conductors
- Dielectric/Insulation: Foamed-Polyethylene (FPE) Insulation minimises energy storage and its associated distortion
- NDS: Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation System
- Jacket Colour: White/Grey stripe PVC
- Ground Wire: With spade lug at each end to minimise hum...if required
- Available Lengths: 2 Metre; 3 Metre; 5 Metre; 8 Metre; 12 Metre; 16 Metre; 20 Metre
- AudioQuest Product Code: AQ-GREYHOUND/2
- Manufacturer's Australian Warranty: 5 Years - Does not cover misuse or abuse
Note: Features & Specifications Subject To Change Without Notice. E&OE